Can chimpanzee infants (Pan troglodytes) form categorical representations in the same manner as human infants (Homo sapiens)?

Developmental Science

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 240-254

  Murai, Chizuko ^a   Kosugi, Daisuke ^b   Tomonaga, Masaki ^a   Tanaka, Masayuki ^a   Matsuzawa, Tetsuro ^a   Itakura, Shoji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; NEWBORN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECOGNITION;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 17544383857     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2005.00413.x     Document Type: Article

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