Do chimpanzees tailor their gestural signals to fit the attentional states of others?

Animal Cognition

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 207-214

  Theall, Laura A ^a   Povinelli, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Chimpanzees; Gaze following; Mental state attribution; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000377623     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710050041     Document Type: Article

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