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Divergent Solutions to Visual Problem Solving across Mammalian Species

Faiz Mustafar, Michael A. Harvey, Abbas Khani, József Arató and Gregor Rainer
eNeuro 9 July 2018, 5 (4) ENEURO.0167-18.2018; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0167-18.2018
Faiz Mustafar
1Visual Cognition Laboratory, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg 1700, Switzerland
2Department of Neuroscience, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 16150 Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia
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Michael A. Harvey
1Visual Cognition Laboratory, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg 1700, Switzerland
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Abbas Khani
3Department of Fundamental Neuroscience, University of Geneva, Geneva 1205, Switzerland
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József Arató
4Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Budapest 1051, Hungary
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Gregor Rainer
1Visual Cognition Laboratory, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg 1700, Switzerland
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0167-18.2018
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30073190
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  • Received April 30, 2018
  • Revision received May 29, 2018
  • Accepted June 11, 2018
  • Published online July 9, 2018.
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Copyright © 2018 Mustafar et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

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  1. Faiz Mustafar1,2,
  2. Michael A. Harvey1,
  3. Abbas Khani3,
  4. József Arató4 and
  5. Gregor Rainer1
  1. 1Visual Cognition Laboratory, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg 1700, Switzerland
  2. 2Department of Neuroscience, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 16150 Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia
  3. 3Department of Fundamental Neuroscience, University of Geneva, Geneva 1205, Switzerland
  4. 4Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Budapest 1051, Hungary
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to Gregor Rainer, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 5, Fribourg 1700, Switzerland, E-mail: gregor.rainer{at}unifr.ch.
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Author contributions

  1. Author contributions: F.M., M.A.H., and G.R. designed research; F.M., A.K., and J.A. performed research ; F.M., M.A.H., and G.R. analyzed data; F.M., M.A.H., and G.R. wrote the paper. F.M. and M.A.H. contributed equally to this work.

Disclosures

  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation Grant 143390, a SCIEX fellowship (J.A.), a scholarship from the Malaysiangovernment (F.M.), the European Young Investigator Awards (EURYI) (G.R.), and the University of Fribourg.

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