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The goggles experiment : can chimpanzees use self-experience to infer what a competitor can see?
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dc.contributor.author | Karg, Katja | |
dc.contributor.author | Schmelz, Martin | |
dc.contributor.author | Call, Josep | |
dc.contributor.author | Tomasello, Michael | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-25T23:32:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-05-25T23:32:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-07 | |
dc.identifier | 240324901 | |
dc.identifier | cc527b19-88b0-4367-828d-65bebec58305 | |
dc.identifier | 000356611200023 | |
dc.identifier | 84930202278 | |
dc.identifier | 000356611200023 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Karg , K , Schmelz , M , Call , J & Tomasello , M 2015 , ' The goggles experiment : can chimpanzees use self-experience to infer what a competitor can see? ' , Animal Behaviour , vol. 105 , pp. 211-221 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.04.028 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0003-3472 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-8597-8336/work/37477845 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/8875 | |
dc.description.abstract | In two experiments, we investigated whether chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, can use self-experience to infer what another sees. Subjects first gained self-experience with the visual properties of an object (either opaque or see-through). In a subsequent test phase, a human experimenter interacted with the object and we tested whether chimpanzees understood that the experimenter experienced the object as opaque or as see-through. Crucially, in the test phase, the object seemed opaque to the subject in all cases (while the experimenter could see through the one that they had experienced as see-through before), such that she had to use her previous self-experience with the object to correctly infer whether the experimenter could or could not see when looking at the object. Chimpanzees did not attribute their previous self-experience with the object to the experimenter in a gaze-following task (experiment 1); however, they did so successfully in a competitive context (experiment 2). We conclude that chimpanzees successfully used their self-experience to infer what the competitor sees. We discuss our results in relation to the well-known 'goggles experiment' and address alternative explanations. | |
dc.format.extent | 11 | |
dc.format.extent | 959593 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Animal Behaviour | en |
dc.subject | Chimpanzee | en |
dc.subject | Experience projection | en |
dc.subject | Perspective taking | en |
dc.subject | Social cognition | en |
dc.subject | Theory of mind | en |
dc.subject | QL Zoology | en |
dc.subject | BF Psychology | en |
dc.subject | NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QL | en |
dc.subject.lcc | BF | en |
dc.title | The goggles experiment : can chimpanzees use self-experience to infer what a competitor can see? | 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.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.04.028 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2016-05-26 |
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