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The importance of witnessed agency in chimpanzee social learning of tool use.

Hopper, Lydia M Lambeth, Susan P Schapiro, Steven J Whiten, Andrew

Social learning refers to individuals learning from others, including information gained through indirect social influences, such as the results of others' actions and changes in the physical environment. One method to determine the relative influence of these varieties of information is the 'ghost display', in which no model is involved, but subje...

Dissecting the mechanisms of squirrel monkey (Saimiri boliviensis) social learning.

Hopper, Lm Holmes, An Williams, LE Brosnan, Sf

Published in PeerJ

Although the social learning abilities of monkeys have been well documented, this research has only focused on a few species. Furthermore, of those that also incorporated dissections of social learning mechanisms, the majority studied either capuchins (Cebus apella) or marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). To gain a broader understanding of how monkeys g...

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The importance of witnessed agency in chimpanzee social learning of tool use.

Dissecting the mechanisms of squirrel monkey (Saimiri boliviensis) social learning.

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