Transfer of a serial representation between two distinct tasks by rhesus macaques.

Do animals form task-specific representations, or do those representations take a general form that can be applied to qualitatively different tasks? Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) learned the ordering of stimulus lists using two different serial tasks, in order to test whether prior experience in e...

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Main Authors: Greg Jensen, Drew Altschul, Erin Danly, Herbert Terrace
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3729468?pdf=render