A Fruit in Hand is Worth Many More in the Bush: Steep Spatial Discounting by Free-Ranging Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)
Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes
Keywords: choice, decision-making, reward, rhesus monkeys, spatial discounting
2012
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