• DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2004.12.076
Corpus ID: 15978970

Rhesus Monkeys Attribute Perceptions to Others

@article{Flombaum2005RhesusMA,
  title={Rhesus Monkeys Attribute Perceptions to Others},
  author={Jonathan I. Flombaum and L. Santos},
  journal={Current Biology},
  year={2005},
  volume={15},
  pages={447-452}
}

Jonathan I. Flombaum, L. Santos

Published 2005

Biology, Medicine

Current Biology

Paramount among human cognitive abilities is the capacity to reason about what others think, want, and see--a capacity referred to as a theory of mind (ToM). Despite its importance in human cognition, the extent to which other primates share human ToM capacities has for decades remained a mystery. To date, primates [1, 2] have performed poorly in behavioral tasks that require ToM abilities, despite the fact that some macaques are known to encode social stimuli at the level of single neurons [3… CONTINUE READING

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