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High-level social learning in apes: Imitation or observation-assisted planning?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1998

Peter E. Midford
Peter E. Midford
Affiliation:
Zoology Department, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI 53706 pmidford@macc.wisc.edu www.wosc.edu/zoology/grads/petere.htm
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Abstract

Byrne & Russon's notion of program-level imitation is based on the ability of apes to plan novel sequences of behavior and on how information gleaned by observation can aid the planning process. Byrne & Russon would have made a stronger case by focusing on social learning and planning and expending less effort interpreting their results as a new category of imitation.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , October 1998 , pp. 698 - 699
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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