Token-mediated economic choices in tufted capuchins
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 21:21
in Mathematics & Economics
From paintings and photographs to coins and credit cards, we are constantly surrounded by symbolic artefacts. The mental representation of symbols - objects that arbitrarily represent other objects - ultimately affords the development of language, and certainly played a decisive role in the evolution of our hominid ancestors...
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