Reaching around barriers: The performance of the great apes and 3-5-year-old children

Animal Cognition

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 273-285

  Vlamings, Petra H J M ^a,b   Hare, Brian ^c   Call, Josep ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Detour; Inhibitory control; Problem solving; Reaching

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GORILLA; HOMINID; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; ORANG UTAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANIMALIA; HOMINIDAE; PAN; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 77349086363     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-009-0265-5     Document Type: Article

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