Chimpanzees: Joint Visual Attention
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...…(Okamoto et al. 2002; Tomasello et al. 1998), they check back with the looker (and eventually quit looking) if nothing is there (Call et al. 1998; Povinelli & Eddy 1996; Tomasello et al. 2001), and they even follow the gaze direction of humans to targets behind barriers (Tomasello et al. 1999)....
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...It is one form of primate cognition, but it seems totally unique as people go around talking and writing and playing symphonies and doing math and building buildings and engaging in rituals and paying bills BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES (2005) 28:5 689...
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...Povinelli and Eddy [122,123] suggested that following another individual's gaze might be an automatic response and form part of a primitive orienting re ̄ex (POR)....
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...Povinelli and Eddy [121,122,123,125] in their experiments concluded that chimpanzees can follow a human experimenter's gaze, but not use that information to learn about objects in the world or the amental stateo of the individual providing the gaze cues (see next section)....
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...In a further series of experiments, Povinelli and Eddy [123] obstructed the subjects' line of sight with an opaque shield....
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...First, chimpanzees given the choice of begging from a human who can see them versus one who cannot chose indiscriminately in all but the simplest conditions (Povinelli & Eddy 1996a; Reaux et al. 1999)....
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...Researchers interested in the development of these aspects of the child's theory of mind have recently explored the development of the young child's conceptual understanding of symbolic play, desire, visual perception, appearance and reality, sources of knowledge, representational change, and false belief (Flavell, Everett, Croft, & Flavell, 1981; Flavell, Green, & Flavell, 1993; Gopnik & Graf, 1988; Gopnik & Slaughter, 1991; Harris, 1991; Leslie, 1987; Lillard, 1993; Perner, 1991; Wellman, 1990; Wimmer, Hogrefe, & Perner, 1988; Wimmer & Perner, 1983). The term theory of mind originated from the work of Premack and Woodruff (1978), who experimentally investigated the capacity of a chimpanzee to attribute desires to others....
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...Researchers interested in the development of these aspects of the child's theory of mind have recently explored the development of the young child's conceptual understanding of symbolic play, desire, visual perception, appearance and reality, sources of knowledge, representational change, and false belief (Flavell, Everett, Croft, & Flavell, 1981; Flavell, Green, & Flavell, 1993; Gopnik & Graf, 1988; Gopnik & Slaughter, 1991; Harris, 1991; Leslie, 1987; Lillard, 1993; Perner, 1991; Wellman, 1990; Wimmer, Hogrefe, & Perner, 1988; Wimmer & Perner, 1983)....
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