Role of mental representations in quantity judgments by jackdaws (corvus monedula)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 11-20

  Ujfalussy, Dorottya Júlia ^a   Miklósi, Ádám ^a   Bugnyar, Thomas ^b,c   Kotrschal, Kurt ^c  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Jackdaw; Mental representation; Models; Relative quantity judgments

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CROW; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CROWS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); JUDGMENT; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS;

EID: 84894036036     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034063     Document Type: Article

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