Comparative investigations of manual action representations: Evidence that chimpanzees represent the costs of potential future actions involving tools

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1585, 2012, Pages 48-58

  Frey, Scott H ^a   Povinelli, Daniel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Action selection; Cerebral asymmetry; Chimpanzee tool use; Context sensitivity; Motor planning

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUTURE PROSPECT; MOVEMENT; PREDICTION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE; SPECIALIZATION; TOOL USE;

PAN; PRIMATES;

EID: 81555210918     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0189     Document Type: Article

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