Apes perform like infants in false-belief tasks

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 fal...

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Autor principal: Bugnyar, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2017
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Outlook
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5709434/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28389978
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13420-017-0268-z
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Sumario: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.

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