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Behavioral Assessment of Manual Dexterity in Non-Human Primates
Published on: November 11, 2011
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Koki Mimura1, Ken Nakae2, Kenji Doya3
1Department of Mental Disorder Research, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo 187-8502, Japan.
Physics of Life Reviews
|June 12, 2025
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