Seeing the experimenter influences the response to pointing cues in long-tailed macaques

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Schmitt, Vanessa ^a,b,c   Schloegl, Christian ^b,c   Fischer, Julia ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; POINTING CUE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84898657760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091348     Document Type: Article

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