'Unwilling' versus 'unable': Do grey parrots understand human intentional actions?

Interaction Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 428-441

  Péron, Franck ^a   Rat Fischer, Lauriane ^a   Nagle, Laurent ^a   Bovet, Dalila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

Author keywords

Grey parrots; Intention attribution; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649419382     PISSN: 15720373     EISSN: 15720381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/is.11.3.06per     Document Type: Article

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