Past and present challenges in theory of mind research in nonhuman primates

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 164, Issue , 2007, Pages 341-353

  Call, Josep ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

association; cognitive evolution; comparative cognition; inferences; mental attribution

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CHIMPANZEE; CONCEPT FORMATION; ECOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION; REVIEW; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRIANGULATION; VALIDITY; VISION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

EID: 34848885090     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(07)64019-9     Document Type: Review

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