Transposition and its generalization in common marmosets

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 317-326

  Yamazaki, Yumiko ^a,b   Saiki, Masakado ^b   Inada, Masayuki ^b   Iriki, Atsushi ^b   Watanabe, Shigeru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Common marmosets; Generalization; Relational learning; Transposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902957637     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/xan0000027     Document Type: Article

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