More complex brains are not always better: Rats outperform humans in implicit category-based generalization by implementing a similarity-based strategy

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1080-1086

  Vermaercke, Ben ^a   Cop, Elsy ^a   Willems, Sam ^a   D'Hooge, Rudi ^a   Op de Beeck, Hans P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Animal behavior; Categorization; Implicit explicit cognition; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RAT; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MAZE LEARNING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904497250     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-013-0579-9     Document Type: Article

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