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Daniel Povinelli - What Young Chimpanzees Know about Seeing - 9780631224525 - V9780631224525
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What Young Chimpanzees Know about Seeing

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Description for What Young Chimpanzees Know about Seeing Paperback. Research suggests chimpanzees may understand some of the epitemological aspects of visual perception, such as how the perceptual act of seeing can have internal several interpretations. These 15 studies were conducted with chimpanzees and young children on their understanding of visual perception. Series: Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. Num Pages: 191 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMAQ; PSVP; PSVW79. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 12. Weight in Grams: 284.
Previous experimental research has suggested that chimpanzees may understand some of the epitemological aspects of visual perception, such as how the perceptual act of seeing can have internal mental consequences for an individual's state of knowledge. Other research suggests that chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates may understand visual perception at a simpler level; that is, they may at least understand seeing as a mental event that subjectively anchors organisms to the external world. However, these results are ambiguous and are open to several interpretations. In this Monograph, we report the results of 15 studies that were conducted with chimpanzees and ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
191
Condition
New
Series
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631224525
SKU
V9780631224525
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About Daniel Povinelli
Daniel J. Povinelli is Professor of Biology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. After studying as an undergraduate at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he received his B.S. in Anthropology with a minor in Zoology - 1986 -, he studied Physical Anthropology and earned his doctorate from Yale University - 1991.

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