from day 22/05/2010

Learning and prestige among chimpanzees

An interesting article by Victoria Horner, Darby Proctor, Kristin Bonnie, Andrew Whiten, Frans de Waal: "Prestige Affects Cultural Learning in Chimpanzees" in PLoS ONE, 2010, 5(5) freely available here. In Group 1, more prestigious model A was trained to deposit tokens into the spotted receptacle ...

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