Abstract concepts: Data from a Grey parrot

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 93, Issue , 2013, Pages 82-90

  Pepperberg, Irene M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstract concepts in gray parrots; Avian cognition; Gray parrot cognition; Gray parrot numerical concepts; Same different

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIRD; COGNITION; DATA SET; PREDATOR; PRIMATE; PSYCHOLOGY; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONCEPT FORMATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PARROT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; PARROTS; SYMBOLISM;

AVES; PRIMATES; PSITTACIDAE; PSITTACUS ERITHACUS;

EID: 84874272395     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.09.016     Document Type: Review

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