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dc.contributor.authorBohn, Manuel
dc.contributor.authorAllritz, Matthias
dc.contributor.authorCall, Josep
dc.contributor.authorVoelter, Christoph Johannes
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-14T15:30:10Z
dc.date.available2017-09-14T15:30:10Z
dc.date.issued2017-09-07
dc.identifier250912652
dc.identifier02262690-3b18-43e7-ba6c-7b067dbcedcf
dc.identifier85028916753
dc.identifier000409562000070
dc.identifier.citationBohn , M , Allritz , M , Call , J & Voelter , C J 2017 , ' Information seeking about tool properties in great apes ' , Scientific Reports , vol. 7 , 10923 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-11400-zen
dc.identifier.issn2045-2322
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-8597-8336/work/37477958
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/11662
dc.descriptionM.B. was supported by a scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation. J.C. was supported by the “SOMICS” ERC Synergy grant (nr. 609819).en
dc.description.abstractEvidence suggests that great apes engage in metacognitive information seeking for food items. To support the claim that a domain-general cognitive process underlies ape metacognition one needs to show that selective information seeking extends to non-food items. In this study, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and orangutans (Pongo abelii) either had to determine the location of a desired food item or a property of a non-food item (length of a tool). We manipulated whether subjects received prior information about the item’s location or property. During the test, subjects had the opportunity to seek the respective information. Results show that apes engaged in more information seeking when they had no prior knowledge. Importantly, this selective pattern of information seeking applied to food as well as to tools.
dc.format.extent1046073
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofScientific Reportsen
dc.subjectMetacognitionen
dc.subjectTool useen
dc.subjectInformation seekingen
dc.subjectPrimate cognitionen
dc.subjectGreat Apesen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectQL Zoologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.subject.lccQLen
dc.titleInformation seeking about tool properties in great apesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorEuropean Research Councilen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s41598-017-11400-z
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumber609819en


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