Macaque Monkeys Can Learn Token Values from Human Models through Vicarious Reward

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Bevacqua, Sara ^a   Cerasti, Erika ^a   Falcone, Rossella ^a   Cervelloni, Milena ^a   Brunamonti, Emiliano ^a   Ferraina, Stefano ^a   Genovesio, Aldo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; LEARNING; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOKEN EXCHANGE PARADIGM;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HUMANS; LEARNING; MACACA; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 84875461346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059961     Document Type: Article

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