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Imitation and Social Cognition in Humans and Chimpanzees (II): Rational...
In my last post I wrote about two experiments on imitation in young children and chimpanzees by Lyons et al. (2005) and Horner & Whiten (2005). Their results suggested that young children tend to...
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The adaptive value of age, co-operation (and secret signals)
More elephant based news! A new study from the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, published today, has found that elephants pay attention to the oldest female elephant in their group when a predator...
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In the past many studies have been done on the linguistic abilities of trained apes using artifical languages, but what about in the wild? Catherine Hobaiter and Richard W. Byrne at the University of...
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Animal Cognition & Consciousness (I): Mirror Self-Recognition
Darwin made a mistake. At least that is what Derek Penn and his colleagues (2008) claim in a recent and controversial paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Darwin (1871) famously argued that the...
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Animal Cognition & Consciousness (II): Metacognition & Mentalizing
As I wrote in my last post, three kinds of behaviours are most often discussed in debates about animal consciousness and cognition: “1. Mirror self-recognition 2. Tests of metacognition; 3....
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Babies know who’s boss, whose boss, and who knows what else.
A forthcoming paper (grateful nod to ICCI) in PNAS from Olivier Mascaro and Gergely Csibra presents a series of experiments investigating the representation of social dominance relations in human...
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