Ants’ Mental Positioning of Amounts on a Number Line
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Calibrating the mental number line.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Biology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1916-968X,1916-9671
DOI: 10.5539/ijb.v12n1p35