Requesting gestures in captive monkeys and apes: Conditioned responses or referential behaviours?

Gesture

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 91-105

  Gómez, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communicative intentionality; Joint attention; Primates; Referential communication; Request gestures

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947528365     PISSN: 15681475     EISSN: 15699773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/gest.5.1-2.08gom     Document Type: Article

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