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Primates in cyberspace: using interactive computer tasks to study perception and action in nonhuman animals

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    Katherine A. Leighty & Dorothy M. Fragaszy

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Leighty, K.A., Fragaszy, D.M. Primates in cyberspace: using interactive computer tasks to study perception and action in nonhuman animals. Anim Cogn 6, 137–139 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-003-0177-8

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