Computer animations stimulate contagious yawning in chimpanzees

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1676, 2009, Pages 4255-4259

  Campbell, Matthew W ^a   Carter, J Devyn ^a   Proctor, Darby ^a   Eisenberg, Michelle L ^a   De Waal, Frans B M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees; Computer animations; Contagious yawning; Empathy

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE; IMITATION; MIMICRY; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YAWNING;

ANIMALIA; PAN;

EID: 72849106644     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1087     Document Type: Article

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