Group Size Predicts Social but Not Nonsocial Cognition in Lemurs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  MacLean, Evan L ^a   Sandel, Aaron A ^b   Bray, Joel ^a   Oldenkamp, Ricki E ^c   Reddy, Rachna B ^a   Hare, Brian A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; LEMURIDAE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; PREDICTION; PRIMATE; SOCIAL COGNITION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN RELATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; LEMURIDAE; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LEMUR; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84879497053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066359     Document Type: Article

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