More Rope Tricks Reveal Why More Task Variants Will Never Lead to Strong Inferences About Higher-Order Causal Reasoning in Chimpanzees

When chimpanzees (and other animals) use tools to pound, crack open, retrieve, soak up, pry apart, probe into, and/or dig up other objects (just to name a few of the operations of which they are capable), are these actions modulated by higher-order, structural, role-based representations of , , , a...

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Main Authors: Daniel J. Povinelli, Ty Henley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Animal Behavior and Cognition 2020-08-01
Series:Animal Behavior and Cognition
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Online Access:http://www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/uploads/journals/28/AB_C_2020_Vol7(3)_Povinelli_&_Henley.pdf