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Making subtle and extensive use of eye-tracking technology, Krupenye and colleagues showed that, like human infants, great apes - chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans - can accurately anticipate the goal-directed behaviour of an agent that holds a false belief. How do they do it, by mentalising or by submentalising?

More information Original publication

DOI

10.1016/j.tics.2016.11.006

Type

Journal article

Publication Date

2017-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Volume

21

Pages

1 - 2

Total pages

1

Keywords

Mentalising, apes., eye-tracking, mind reading, submentalising, theory of mind, Animals, Behavior, Animal, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Hominidae, Humans, Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Theory of Mind