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

Claudio Tennie; Josep Call; Michael Tomasello

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041548

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

Claudio Tennie
, Josep Call
, Michael Tomasello

Psychology

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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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	e41548
Journal	PLoS ONE
Volume	7
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041548
Publication status	Published - 2012

Keywords

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

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

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