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dc.contributor.authorTennie, Claudio
dc.contributor.authorVoelter, Christoph J.
dc.contributor.authorVonau, Victoria
dc.contributor.authorHanus, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorCall, Josep
dc.contributor.authorTomasello, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-24T10:30:10Z
dc.date.available2019-09-24T10:30:10Z
dc.date.issued2019-09-23
dc.identifier261103642
dc.identifier165d1e6e-3a19-4b7f-ae85-5c3b52008b7b
dc.identifier85073980829
dc.identifier000494402100002
dc.identifier.citationTennie , C , Voelter , C J , Vonau , V , Hanus , D , Call , J & Tomasello , M 2019 , ' Chimpanzees use observed temporal directionality to learn novel causal relations ' , Primates , vol. First Online . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-019-00754-9en
dc.identifier.issn0032-8332
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-8597-8336/work/62311838
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/18544
dc.description.abstractWe investigated whether chimpanzees use the temporal sequence of external events to determine causation. Seventeen chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) witnessed a human experimenter press a button in two different conditions. When she pressed the “causal button” the delivery of juice and a sound immediately followed (cause-then-effect). In contrast, she pressed the “non-causal button” only after the delivery of juice and sound (effect-then-cause). When given the opportunity to produce the desired juice delivery themselves, the chimpanzees preferentially pressed the causal button, i.e., the one that preceded the effect. Importantly, they did so in their first test trial and even though both buttons were equally associated with juice delivery. This outcome suggests that chimpanzees, like human children, do not rely solely on their own actions to make use of novel causal relations, but they can learn causal sequences based on observation alone. We discuss these findings in relation to the literature on causal inferences as well as associative learning.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPrimatesen
dc.subjectCausal cognitionen
dc.subjectSocial learningen
dc.subjectChimpanzeesen
dc.subjectAction representationen
dc.subjectSimultaneous conditioningen
dc.subjectPrimate cognitionen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.titleChimpanzees use observed temporal directionality to learn novel causal relationsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
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.doi10.1007/s10329-019-00754-9
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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