Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Sociocognitive Development in Chimpanzees: A Synthesis of Laboratory Work and Fieldwork....Pages 3-33
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
A New Comparative Perspective on Prenatal Motor Behaviors: Preliminary Research with Four-Dimensional Ultrasonography....Pages 37-47
Cognitive Abilities Before Birth: Learning and Long-Lasting Memory in a Chimpanzee Fetus....Pages 48-63
Spindle Neurons in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex of Humans and Great Apes....Pages 64-74
Descent of the Larynx in Chimpanzees: Mosaic and Multiple-Step Evolution of the Foundations for Human Speech....Pages 75-95
Understanding the Growth Pattern of Chimpanzees: Does It Conserve the Pattern of the Common Ancestor of Humans and Chimpanzees?....Pages 96-112
The Application of a Human Personality Test to Chimpanzees and Survey of Polymorphism in Genes Relating to Neurotransmitters and Hormones....Pages 113-124
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Evolutionary Origins of the Human Mother-Infant Relationship....Pages 127-141
Development of Facial Information Processing in Nonhuman Primates....Pages 142-154
Development of Joint Attention in Infant Chimpanzees....Pages 155-171
Food Sharing and Referencing Behavior in Chimpanzee Mother and Infant....Pages 172-181
Development of Chimpanzee Social Cognition in the First 2 Years of Life....Pages 182-197
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Chimpanzee Learning and Transmission of Tool Use to Fish for Honey....Pages 201-213
How and When Do Chimpanzees Acquire the Ability to Imitate?....Pages 214-232
Yawning: An Opening into Empathy?....Pages 233-245
How Social Influences Affect Food Neophobia in Captive Chimpanzees: A Comparative Approach....Pages 246-264
Tactical Deception and Understanding of Others in Chimpanzees....Pages 265-276
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Early Spontaneous Categorization in Primate Infants—Chimpanzees, Humans, and Japanese Macaques—with the Familiarization-Novelty Preference Task....Pages 279-304
Processing of Shadow Information in Chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes ) and Human ( Homo sapiens ) Infants....Pages 305-316
Color Recognition in Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes )....Pages 317-329
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Auditory-Visual Crossmodal Representations of Species-Specific Vocalizations....Pages 330-339
Spontaneous Categorization of Natural Objects in Chimpanzees....Pages 340-367
Cognitive Enrichment in Chimpanzees: An Approach of Welfare Entailing an Animal’s Entire Resources....Pages 368-391
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Cognitive Development in Apes and Humans Assessed by Object Manipulation....Pages 395-410
Token Use by Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ): Choice, Metatool, and Cost....Pages 411-438
Behavioral Repertoire of Tool Use in the Wild Chimpanzees at Bossou....Pages 439-451
Ant Dipping in Chimpanzees: An Example of How Microecological Variables, Tool Use, and Culture Reflect the Cognitive Abilities of Chimpanzees....Pages 452-475
Ontogeny and Cultural Propagation of Tool Use by Wild Chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea: Case Studies in Nut Cracking and Leaf Folding....Pages 476-508