A competitive nonverbal false belief task for children and apes

Developmental Science

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 521-535

  Krachun, Carla ^a,b   Carpenter, Malinda ^b   Call, Josep ^b   Tomasello, Michael ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 67049145390     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00793.x     Document Type: Article

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