Symbol-value association and discrimination in the archerfish.
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SUBMITTER: Karoubi N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5381781 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Symbol-value association and discrimination in the archerfish.
Karoubi Naomi N Leibovich Tali T Segev Ronen R
PloS one 20170405 4
One of the most important aspects of mathematical cognition in humans is the ability to symbolically represent magnitudes and quantities. In the last 20 years it has been shown that not only humans but also other primates, birds and dolphins can use symbolic representation of quantities. However, it remains unclear to what extent this ability is spread across the animal kingdom. Here, by training archerfish to associate variable amounts of rewards with different geometric shapes, we show for the ...[more]
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