Chimpanzees' (Pan troglodytes) use of gaze cues in object-choice tasks: Different methods yield different results

Animal Cognition

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 84-92

  Barth, Jochen ^a   Reaux, James E ^b   Povinelli, Daniel J ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees; Experimenter given cues; Gaze following; Joint visual attention

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; ORIENTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; ORIENTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 18244398647     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-004-0235-x     Document Type: Article

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