Apes' use of iconic cues in the object-choice task

Animal Cognition

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 118-130

  Herrmann, Esther ^a   Melis, Alicia P ^a   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apes; Communicative intention; Iconic; Object choice task

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANTHROPOIDEA; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GORILLA; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 33644958557     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-005-0013-4     Document Type: Article

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