Publication Date:
2011-12-24
Description:
Although many animals are able to discriminate stimuli differing in numerosity, only primates are thought to share our ability to employ abstract numerical rules. Here, we show that this ability is present in pigeons and that their performance is indistinguishable from that displayed by monkeys.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Scarf, Damian -- Hayne, Harlene -- Colombo, Michael -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Dec 23;334(6063):1664. doi: 10.1126/science.1213357.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. damianscarf@gmail.com〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22194568" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Biological Evolution
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*Cognition
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*Columbidae
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Discrimination (Psychology)
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Macaca mulatta
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*Mathematical Concepts
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Reaction Time
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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