Do robots have goals? How agent cues influence action understanding in non-human primates

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 246, Issue , 2013, Pages 47-54

  Kupferberg, Aleksandra ^a   Glasauer, Stefan ^a   Burkart, Judith M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Action understanding; Common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus); Goal attribution; Intention understanding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY MOVEMENT; CALLITRICHINAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE PROFILE; HAPLORHINI; LEG MOVEMENT; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CALLITHRIX; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; CUES; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ROBOTICS;

EID: 84875577338     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.01.047     Document Type: Article

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