Brain size predicts problem-solving ability in mammalian carnivores

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 2532-2537

  Benson Amram, Sarah ^a   Dantzer, Ben ^b   Stricker, Gregory ^c   Swanson, Eli M ^d   Holekamp, Kay E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain size; Carnivore; Intelligence; Problem solving; Social complexity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR CEREBRUM; ARTICLE; BEAR; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STEM; CARNIVORE; CHEETAH; DEXTERITY TEST; DOG; FOOD; LEOPARD; MAMMAL; MENTAL CAPACITY; MOTIVATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICAN; POSTERIOR CEREBRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SELF CONTROL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WOLF; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CARNIVORA; CLASSIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CARNIVORA; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84959386523     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1505913113     Document Type: Article

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