Motor planning in primates.
Vaesen asks whether goal maintenance and planning ahead are critical for innovative tool use. We suggest that these aptitudes may have an evolutionary foundation in motor planning abilities that span all primate species. Anticipatory effects evidenced in the reaching behaviors of lemurs, tamarins, and rhesus monkeys similarly bear on the evolutionary origins of foresight as it pertains to tool use.
Department of Psychology and Program in Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. djw21@psu.edu
Daniel J
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Weiss
Kate M
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Chapman
Jason D
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Wark
David A
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Rosenbaum
D000818:Animals; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D013672:Technology; D053001:Tool Use Behavior