Reference: The Linguistic Essential
- 21 November 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 210 (4472) , 922-925
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7434008
Abstract
Three chimpanzees learned to label three edibles as "foods" and three inedibles as "tools." Two chimpanzees could then similarly categorize numerous objects during blind trial 1 tests when shown only objects' names. The language-like skills of the chimpanzee who failed (Lana) illustrates that apes can use symbols in ways that emulate human usage without comprehending their representational function.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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