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Registered report - Do chimpanzees reason logically?
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dc.contributor.author | Engelmann, Jan M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Haux, Lou M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Völter, Christoph | |
dc.contributor.author | Schleihauf, Hanna | |
dc.contributor.author | Call, Josep | |
dc.contributor.author | Rakoczy, Hannes | |
dc.contributor.author | Herrmann, Esther | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-10-17T23:39:51Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-10-17T23:39:51Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-09-01 | |
dc.identifier | 281991938 | |
dc.identifier | 42e11d4a-56d7-4e58-813f-aa7d7e1f5e78 | |
dc.identifier | 85140057906 | |
dc.identifier | 000869612700001 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Engelmann , J M , Haux , L M , Völter , C , Schleihauf , H , Call , J , Rakoczy , H & Herrmann , E 2023 , ' Registered report - Do chimpanzees reason logically? ' , Child Development , vol. 94 , no. 5 , pp. 1102-1116 . https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13861 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0009-3920 | |
dc.identifier.other | Jisc: 688210 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-8597-8336/work/122216279 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/28541 | |
dc.description.abstract | Psychologists disagree about the development of logical concepts such as or and not. While some theorists argue that infants reason logically, others maintain that logical inference is contingent on linguistic abilities and emerges around age 4. In this Registered Report, we conducted five experiments on logical reasoning in chimpanzees. Subjects (N = 16; 10 females; M = 24 years) participated in the same setup that has been administered to children: the two-, three-, and four-cup-task. Chimpanzees performed above chance in the two-cup-, but not in the three-cup-task. Furthermore, chimpanzees selected the logically correct option more often in the test than the control condition of the four-cup-task. We discuss possible interpretations of these findings and conclude that our results are most consistent with non-deductive accounts. | |
dc.format.extent | 15 | |
dc.format.extent | 515462 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Child Development | en |
dc.subject | BF Psychology | en |
dc.subject | DAS | en |
dc.subject | AC | en |
dc.subject | MCC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | BF | en |
dc.title | Registered report - Do chimpanzees reason logically? | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscience | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13861 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2023-10-18 |
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