Untrained chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) fail to imitate novel actions

Claudio Tennie, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello

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Abstract

Social learning research in apes has focused on social learning in the technical (problem solving) domain - an approach that confounds action and physical information. Successful subjects in such studies may have been able to perform target actions not as a result of imitation learning but because they had learnt some technical aspect, for example, copying the movements of an apparatus (i.e., different forms of emulation learning).
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)e41548
JournalPLoS ONE
Volume7
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

Keywords

  • Animals
  • Learning
  • Social Behavior
  • Psychomotor Performance
  • Gestures
  • Male
  • Imitative Behavior
  • Female
  • Behavior, Animal
  • Problem Solving
  • Pan troglodytes

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