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Do Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) Diagnose Causal Relations in the Absence of a Direct Reward?

We adapted a method from developmental psychology [1] to explore whether capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) would place objects on a “blicket detector” machine to diagnose causal relations in the absence of a direct reward. Across five experiments, monkeys could place different objects on the machine a...

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Autores principales: Edwards, Brian J., Rottman, Benjamin M., Shankar, Maya, Betzler, Riana, Chituc, Vladimir, Rodriguez, Ricardo, Silva, Liara, Wibecan, Leah, Widness, Jane, Santos, Laurie R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3929502/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24586347
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088595