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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"primate cognition"”.
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Pictorial Primates: A Search for Iconic Abilities in Great Apes
… in psychological experiments on nonhuman primate perception, categorisation, etc. They are also used in everyday interaction with primates, and as pure entertainment. But in what ways do primates understand iconic artefacts? What implications do these different ways have for the …
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Spatial Mapping in Wild White -Faced Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus Capucinus)
… questions concerning human and nonhuman primate cognition, spatial memory, and the ability of monkeys to form mental maps of the location and distribution of feeding and resting sites across a forested landscape. Primates exploit home ranges that vary on spatial scales ranging from less …
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The cognitive and neural basis of complex decision-making in the primate brain
… neuroscience is what cognitive strategies primates use to tackle complex multi-step decisions, and what are the neural underpinnings of the strategies. Traditionally, cognitive experiments come in two broad flavors. In one flavor, sophisticated tasks thought to invoke high-level cognitive …
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The Ape Ecological Niche: Posture and Hand Use in Gibbons and Macaques and the Influence of Manual Skill on Cognitive Development in Apes and Humans
… as models, the comparative feeding styles of primates were analyzed focusing on their positional behaviour and manual skill. Results support the hypothesis that gibbons exhibit a unique feeding style associated with their orthogrady/suspensory postures in comparison with pronograde macaques. …