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Hardly habitual: chimpanzees and gorillas show flexibility in their motor responses when presented with a causally-clear task

In contrast to reports of wild primates, studies of captive primates’ flexibility often reveal conservatism: individuals are unable to switch to new and more efficient strategies when task demands change. We propose that such conservatism might be a result of task design and hypothesize that conserv...

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Autores principales: Jacobson, Sarah L., Hopper, Lydia M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6329335/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30643700
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6195