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Johnston, Angie M.; Holden, Paul C.; Santos, Laurie R. – Developmental Science, 2017
When learning from others, human children tend to faithfully copy--or "overimitate"--the actions of a demonstrator, even when these actions are irrelevant for solving the task at hand. We investigate whether domesticated dogs ("Canis familiaris") and dingoes ("Canis dingo") share this tendency to overimitate in three…
Descriptors: Animals, Socialization, Learning Processes, Puzzles
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Herrmann, Esther; Misch, Antonia; Hernandez-Lloreda, Victoria; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Science, 2015
Human beings have remarkable skills of self-control, but the evolutionary origins of these skills are unknown. Here we compare children at 3 and 6 years of age with one of humans' two nearest relatives, chimpanzees, on a battery of reactivity and self-control tasks. Three-year-old children and chimpanzees were very similar in their abilities to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Young Children, Animals, Animal Behavior
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Whyte, Elisabeth M.; Behrmann, Marlene; Minshew, Nancy J.; Garcia, Natalie V.; Scherf, K. Suzanne – Developmental Science, 2016
Multiple hypotheses have been offered to explain the impaired face-processing behavior and the accompanying underlying disruptions in neural circuitry among individuals with autism. We explored the specificity of atypical face-processing activation and potential alterations to fusiform gyrus (FG) morphology as potential underlying mechanisms.…
Descriptors: Autism, Neurological Impairments, Cognitive Processes, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Rosati, Alexandra G.; Hare, Brian – Developmental Science, 2012
Spatial cognition and memory are critical cognitive skills underlying foraging behaviors for all primates. While the emergence of these skills has been the focus of much research on human children, little is known about ontogenetic patterns shaping spatial cognition in other species. Comparative developmental studies of nonhuman apes can…
Descriptors: Memory, Spatial Ability, Exhibits, Animals
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Penkunas, Michael J.; Coss, Richard G. – Developmental Science, 2013
Recent studies indicate that young children preferentially attend to snakes, spiders, and lions compared with nondangerous species, but these results have yet to be replicated in populations that actually experience dangerous animals in nature. This multi-site study investigated the visual-detection biases of southern Indian children towards two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Animals, Visual Perception, Comparative Analysis
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Bullinger, Anke F.; Zimmermann, Felizitas; Kaminski, Juliane; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Science, 2011
Both chimpanzees and human infants use the pointing gesture with human adults, but it is not clear if they are doing so for the same social motives. In two studies, we presented chimpanzees and human 25-month-olds with the opportunity to point for a hidden tool (in the presence of a non-functional distractor). In one condition it was clear that…
Descriptors: Infants, Animals, Human Body, Nonverbal Communication
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Bardi, Lara; Regolin, Lucia; Simion, Francesca – Developmental Science, 2011
The present study addresses the hypothesis that detection of biological motion is an intrinsic capacity of the visual system guided by a non-species-specific predisposition for the pattern of vertebrate movement and investigates the role of global vs. local information in biological motion detection. Two-day-old babies exposed to a biological…
Descriptors: Animals, Motion, Comparative Analysis, Scientific Concepts
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Matsuzawa, Tetsuro – Developmental Science, 2007
This paper aims to compare cognitive development in humans and chimpanzees to illuminate the evolutionary origins of human cognition. Comparison of morphological data and life history strongly highlights the common features of all primate species, including humans. The human mother-infant relationship is characterized by the physical separation of…
Descriptors: Socialization, Mothers, Infants, Short Term Memory
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Chawarska, Katarzyna; Volkmar, Fred – Developmental Science, 2007
Face recognition impairments are well documented in older children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD); however, the developmental course of the deficit is not clear. This study investigates the progressive specialization of face recognition skills in children with and without ASD. Experiment 1 examines human and monkey face recognition in…
Descriptors: Models, Autism, Toddlers, Interpersonal Relationship
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Murai, Chizuko; Kosugi, Daisuke; Tomonaga, Masaki; Tanaka, Masayuki; Matsuzawa, Tetsuro; Itakura, Shoji – Developmental Science, 2005
We directly compared chimpanzee infants and human infants for categorical representations of three global-like categories (mammals, furniture and vehicles), using the familiarization-novelty preference technique. Neither species received any training during the experiments. We used the time that participants spent looking at the stimulus object…
Descriptors: Animals, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Infants, Classification