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WE wish to report evidence that monkeys trained to discriminate between two forms using only tactual cues are affected by such experience when the same forms are presented visually with tactual cues excluded.
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WILSON, W., SHAFFER, O. Intermodality Transfer of Specific Discriminations in the Monkey. Nature 197, 107 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197107a0
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