Goal attribution in chimpanzees.
Does the chimpanzee attribute goals to others? Recent infant studies using the looking time measure have been interpreted as evidence that human infants attribute goals. An experiment modeled on these studies was carried out on chimpanzees, and the chimpanzees responded the way infants do. This indicates that chimpanzees also attribute goals and hence that this capacity is not distinctively human.
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Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA 70504-3772, USA. uller@louisiana.edu
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D000818:Animals; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D002679:Pan troglodytes / Q000523:psychology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011340:Problem Solving; D002666:Psychology, Child; D013045:Species Specificity