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What a Video Game Can Reveal About Monkeys’ Minds
Researchers find that the animals can account for others' behavior and circumstances in their strategies.
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Neuronal correlates of strategic cooperation in monkeys
We recorded neural activity in male monkeys playing a variant of the game 'chicken' in which they made decisions to cooperate or not cooperate to obtain rewards of differ …
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