Transfer of a Serial Representation between Two Distinct Tasks by Rhesus Macaques

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Jensen, Greg ^a   Altschul, Drew ^a   Danly, Erin ^a   Terrace, Herbert ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; LEARNING; MENTAL LOAD; NONHUMAN; REWARD; RHESUS MONKEY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MACACA MULATTA; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REWARD; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 84881151488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070285     Document Type: Article

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