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SUBMITTER: Leavens DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4697278 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep-Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Child development 20150821 5
van der Goot et al. (2014) proposed that distal, deictic communication indexed the appreciation of the psychological state of a common ground between a signaler and a receiver. In their study, great apes did not signal distally, which they construed as evidence for the human uniqueness of a sense of common ground. This study exposed 166 chimpanzees to food and an experimenter, at an angular displacement, to ask, "Do chimpanzees display distal communication?" Apes were categorized as (a) proximal ...[more]