Evidence for a numerosity category that is based on abstract qualities of "few" vs. "many" in the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2012, Pages

  Yaman, Sevgi ^a,b   Kilian, Annette ^c   von Fersen, Lorenzo ^c   Güntürkün, Onur ^b  

^a Marineland Mallorca   (Spain)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c Tiergarten Stadt Nürnberg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Categorization; Cetacea; Numerosity; Reversal learning; Weber Fechner law

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870883137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00473     Document Type: Article

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