Are Chimpanzees Really So Poor at Understanding Imperative Pointing? Some New Data and an Alternative View of Canine and Ape Social Cognition

William D. Hopkins; Jamie Russell; Joe McIntyre; David A. Leavens

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079338

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Are Chimpanzees Really So Poor at Understanding Imperative Pointing? Some New Data and an Alternative View of Canine and Ape Social Cognition

William D. Hopkins ,

* E-mail: whopkins4@gsu.edu

Affiliations Neuroscience Institute and Language Research Center, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Division of Developmental and Cognitive Neuroscience, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Jamie Russell,

Affiliations Neuroscience Institute and Language Research Center, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Division of Developmental and Cognitive Neuroscience, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Joe McIntyre,

Affiliation Division of Developmental and Cognitive Neuroscience, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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David A. Leavens

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Sussex, England
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Are Chimpanzees Really So Poor at Understanding Imperative Pointing? Some New Data and an Alternative View of Canine and Ape Social Cognition

William D. Hopkins,
Jamie Russell,
Joe McIntyre,
David A. Leavens

Published: November 20, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079338

About the Authors

William D. Hopkins

* E-mail: whopkins4@gsu.edu

Affiliations Neuroscience Institute and Language Research Center, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Division of Developmental and Cognitive Neuroscience, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jamie Russell

Joe McIntyre

Affiliation Division of Developmental and Cognitive Neuroscience, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

David A. Leavens

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Sussex, England

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WDH JR. Performed the experiments: JR JM. Analyzed the data: WDH DAL. Wrote the paper: WDH DAL.

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