Reaching into Thought: The Minds of the Great Apes

Abstract

1. Exploring the minds of the great apes: Issues and controversies Anne E. Russon and Kim A. Bard Part I. The Scope of Great Ape Intelligence: 2. Chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys: Comparative cognition James R. Anderson 3. Acting and understanding: tool use revisited through the minds of capuchin monkeys Elisabetta Visalberghi and Luca Limongelli 4. Consolation, reconciliation, and a possible cognitive difference between macaques and chimpanzees Frans B.M. de Waal and Filippo Aureli 5. The misunderstood ape: Cognitive skills of the gorilla Richard W. Byrne 6. Ostensive behavior in great apes: the role of eye contact Juan Carlos Gomez 7. Imitation in everyday use: matching and rehearsal in the spontaneous imitation of rehabilitant orangutans Anne E. Russon 8. 'More is less': the elicitation of rule-governed resource distribution in chimpanzees Sarah T. Boysen 9. Tool-using behavior in wild Pan paniscus: Social and ecological considerations Ellen J. Ingmanson 10. Comparison of chimpanzee material culture between Bossou and Nimba, West Africa Tetsuro Matsuzawa and Gen Yamakoshi Part II. Organization of Great Ape Intelligence: Development, Culture and Evolution: 11. Influences on development in infant chimpanzees: Enculturation, temperament and cognition Kim A. Bard and Kathryn H. Gardner 12. Heterochrony and the evolution of primate cognitive development Jonas Langer 13. Simon says: The development of imitation in an enculturated orangutan H. Lyn Miles, Robert W. Mitchell and Stephen E. Harper 14. Imitation, pretense, and mindreading: secondary representation in comparative primatology and developmental psychology? Andrew Whiten 15. Self-awareness and self-knowledge in humans, apes and monkeys Daniel Hart and Mary Pat Karmel 16. Apprenticeship in tool-mediated extractive foraging: the origins of imitation, teaching and self-awareness in great apes Sue Taylor Parker 17. The effect of humans on the cognitive development of apes Josep Call and Michael Tomasello 18. Three approaches for assessing chimpanzee culture Christophe Boesch 19. On the wild side of culture and cognition in the great apes Sue Taylor Parker and Anne E. Russon Index.