The mentality of apes revisited

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 115-119

  Povinelli, Daniel J ^a   Bering, Jesse M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees; Cognitive evolution; Comparative psychology; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036021942     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8721.00181     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (1999). A nonverbal theory of mind test: The performance of children and apes. Child Development, 70, 381-395.
2. Darwin, C. (1982). The descent of man. New York: Modern Library. (Original work published 1871).
3. de Waal, F.B.M. (1999). Animal behaviour: Cultural primatology comes of age. Nature, 399, 635.
4. Dreifus, C. (1999, August-September). Going ape. Ms., 9(5), 48-54.
5. Fouts, R. (1997). Next of kin. New York: William Morrow and Co.
6. Goodall, J. (1990). Through a window. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
7. Hare, B., Call, J., Agnetta, B., & Tomasello, M. (2000). Chimpanzees know what conspecifics do and do not see. Animal Behaviour, 59, 771-785.
8. Karin-D'Arcy, R., & Povinelli, D.J. (2002). Do chimpanzees know what each other see? A closer look. Manuscript submitted for publication.
9. Povinelli, D.J. (2000). Folk physics for apes. New York: Oxford University Press.
10. Povinelli, D.J., & O'Neill, D.K. (2000). Do chimpanzees use their gestures to instruct each other? In S. Baron-Cohen, H. Tager-Flusberg, & D.J. Cohen (Eds.), Understanding other minds (pp. 459-487). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
11. Povinelli, D.J., Reaux, J.E., Bierschwale, D.T., Allain, A.D., & Simon, B.B. (1997). Exploitation of pointing as a referential gesture in young children, but not adolescent chimpanzees. Cognitive Development, 12, 423-461.
12. Preuss, T.M., & Coleman, G.Q. (in press). Human-specific organization of primary visual cortex: Alternating compartments of dense Cat-301 and calbindin immuno-reactivity in layer 4A. Cerebral Cortex.
13. Russon, A., & Bard, K. (1996). Exploring the minds of the great apes: Issues and controversies. In A.E. Russon, K.A. Bard, & S.T. Parker (Eds.), Reaching into thought (pp. 1-20). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
14. Savage-Rumbaugh, S., & Lewin, R. (1994). Kanzi: The ape at the brink of the human mind. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
15. Suddendorf, T., & Whiten, A. (2001). Mental evolution and development: Evidence for secondary representation in children, great apes and other animals. Psychological Bulletin, 127, 629-650.