Triggering social interactions: Chimpanzees respond to imitation by a humanoid robot and request responses from it

Animal Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 589-595

  Davila Ross, Marina ^a   Hutchinson, Johanna ^a   Russell, Jamie L ^b,d   Schaeffer, Jennifer ^b   Billard, Aude ^c   Hopkins, William D ^b,d   Bard, Kim A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees; Communication; Imitation; Interaction promoting behaviours; Robot

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; IMITATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSYCHOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICATION; CUES; FEMALE; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84940255310     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-013-0689-9     Document Type: Article

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