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Evidence for Emulation in Chimpanzees in Social Settings Using the Floating Peanut Task

BACKGROUND: It is still unclear which observational learning mechanisms underlie the transmission of difficult problem-solving skills in chimpanzees. In particular, two different mechanisms have been proposed: imitation and emulation. Previous studies have largely failed to control for social factor...

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Autores principales: Tennie, Claudio, Call, Josep, Tomasello, Michael
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2868881/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20485684
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010544