Two-year-old children copy more reliably and more often than nonhuman great apes in multiple observational learning tasks

Primates

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 337-351

  Tennie, Claudio ^a   Greve, Kathrin ^a   Gretscher, Heinz ^a   Call, Josep ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emulation; Imitation; Observational learning; Two action task

Indexed keywords

CHILD; COGNITION; LEARNING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRIMATE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOMINID; HUMAN; IMITATION; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

HOMINIDAE;

EID: 84755161635     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-010-0208-4     Document Type: Article

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