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To see or not to see, that is the question: Designing experiments to test perspective-taking in nonhumans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

Irene M. Pepperberg
Affiliation:
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 imp@biosci.arizona.edu

Abstract

Heyes argues that we need alternative experiments to study those animal abilities generally considered to involve “theory of mind.” The studies she proposes, however, have as many problems as those that she criticizes. Further interactions should exist among researchers examining these capacities before additional experiments are undertaken.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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