title: Apes perform like infants in false-belief tasks.
abstract: Although the extent to which some nonhuman animals understand mental states is currently under debate, attributing false beliefs has been considered to be beyond their limits. A recent study by Krupenye, Kano, Hirata, Call, and Tomasello (Science, 354, 110-114, 2016) shows that great apes pass a false-belief task when they are tested with an anticipatory-looking paradigm developed for nonverbal human infants.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. thomas.bugnyar@univie.ac.at.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bugnyar
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D015186:Hominidae / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D056345:Theory of Mind
keywords: False beliefs; Great apes; Theory of mind