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| David ButtelmannSummaryAffiliation: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Country: Germany Publications
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Behavioral cues that great apes use to forage for hidden foodDavid Buttelmann
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Anim Cogn 11:117-28. 2008..Thus, great apes were able to use a variety of experimenter-given cues associated with foraging actions to locate hidden food and thereby were partially sensitive to the general purpose underlying these actions...
Enculturated chimpanzees imitate rationallyDavid Buttelmann
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Dev Sci 10:F31-8. 2007..Enculturated chimpanzees thus have some understanding of the rationality of others' intentional actions, and use this understanding when imitating others...
Rational tool use and tool choice in human infants and great apesDavid Buttelmann
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Child Dev 79:609-26. 2008..Only some apes thus show an understanding of others' intentions as rational choices of action plans...
Eighteen-month-old infants show false belief understanding in an active helping paradigmDavid Buttelmann
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Cognition 112:337-42. 2009..Results for 16-month-olds were in the same direction but less clear. These results represent by far the youngest age of false belief understanding in a task with an active behavioral measure...
Do great apes use emotional expressions to infer desires?David Buttelmann
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Dev Sci 12:688-98. 2009..These findings suggest that great apes understand both the directedness and the valence of some human emotional expressions, and can use this understanding to infer desires...
The reliability of a model influences 14-month-olds' imitationNorbert Zmyj
Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
J Exp Child Psychol 106:208-20. 2010..We conclude that already by 14 months of age, infants discriminate between reliable and unreliable models when learning novel actions...
Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) use a physical marker to locate hidden foodJulia Riedel
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6 D 04103, Leipzig, Germany
Anim Cogn 9:27-35. 2006..Results showed that dogs did not differentiate intentional and accidental placing of the marker. These results suggest that dogs use the marker as a genuine communicative cue quite independently from the experimenter's actions...
