What Young Chimpanzees Know About Seeing (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development) - Softcover

Povinelli, Daniel J.

 
9780631224525: What Young Chimpanzees Know About Seeing (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0631224521 ISBN 13: 9780631224525
Publisher: Wiley, 2000

Synopsis

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 preschool children to explore their knowledge about visual perception.

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About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

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 preschool children to explore their knowledge about visual perception.

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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 preschool children to explore their knowledge about visual perception.

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Publisher
Wiley
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0631224521
ISBN 13 
9780631224525
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
204

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9780226676753: What Young Chimpanzees Know About Seeing: v. 61, No. 2 (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development)

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