The goggles experiment: Can chimpanzees use self-experience to infer what a competitor can see?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 105, Issue , 2015, Pages 211-221

  Karg, Katja ^a   Schmelz, Martin ^a   Call, Josep ^a,b   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Experience projection; Perspective taking; Social cognition; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COGNITION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PRIMATE; VISION; VISUAL CUE;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 84930202278     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.04.028     Document Type: Article

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