The origins of belief representation: Monkeys fail to automatically represent others' beliefs

Cognition

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 300-308

  Martin, Alia ^a   Santos, Laurie R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief representation; Comparative cognition; Infant cognition; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HAPLORHINI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SOCIAL BELIEF; ANIMAL; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; CULTURE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84891052733     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.11.016     Document Type: Article

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