A Modular Mind? A Test Using Individual Data from Seven Primate Species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Amici, Federica ^a   Barney, Bradley ^b   Johnson, Valen E ^c   Call, Josep ^a   Aureli, Filippo ^d,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

^e LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEBUS; CHIMPANZEE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GORILLA; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MACACA; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; PAN PANISCUS; PRIMATE; REWARD; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPIDER MONKEY;

ANIMALS; ATELINAE; CEBUS; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO; PRIMATES;

ATELES SP.; CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA; MACACA FASCICULARIS; PAN; PRIMATES;

EID: 84871281175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051918     Document Type: Article

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