Executive-attentional uncertainty responses by rhesus macaques(Macaca mulatta)

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 458-475

  David Smith, J ^a   Coutinho, Mariana V C ^a   Church, Barbara A ^a   Beran, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Executive fnction; Metacognition; Primate cognition; Uncertainty monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881255762     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029601     Document Type: Article

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