Gestures and social-emotional communicative development in chimpanzee infants

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 14-29

  Bard, Kim A ^a   Dunbar, Sophie ^b   Maguire Herring, Vanessa ^a   Veira, Yvette ^c   Hayes, Kathryn G ^d   Mcdonald, Kelly ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON ADDICTIONS   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Oakland Zoo   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotions; Infancy; Intersubjectivity, great apes; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; DATA SET; EVOLUTION; GROOMING; PRIMATE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

HOMINIDAE; PAN; PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; EMOTION; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; GESTURE; INFANCY; INTERSUBJECTIVITY, GREAT APES; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL COGNITION;

EMOTIONS; INFANCY; INTERSUBJECTIVITY, GREAT APES; SOCIAL COGNITION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GESTURES; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 84897062290     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22189     Document Type: Article

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