Do apes and children know what they have seen?

Animal Cognition

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 207-220

  Call, Josep ^a,b   Carpenter, Malinda ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mental attribution; Metacognition; Primates; Self knowledge; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

PAN; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 84886776965     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710100078     Document Type: Article

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