Commentary on: Labels, cognomes, and cyclic computation: An ethological perspective

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue JUN, 2015, Pages

  Boeckx, Cedric ^a,b   Theofanopoulou, Constantina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Animal cognition; Cognitive phylogenies; Cognome; Computation; Labeling; Language evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940502301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00784     Document Type: Note

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