Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and 2-year-old children (Homo sapiens) understand double invisible displacement?

• Published in: Journal of comparative psychology (1983) Vol. 120; no. 2; p. 89
• Main Authors: Collier-Baker, Emma, Suddendorf, Thomas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.05.2006
• Subjects: Animals; Behavior, Animal; Child, Preschool; Cognition; Female; Humans; Male; Pan troglodytes; Space Perception; Visual Perception

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and young children (Homo sapiens) have difficulty with double invisible displacements in which an object is hidden in two nonadjacent boxes in a linear array. Experiment 1 eliminated the possibility that chimpanzees' previous poor performance was due to the hiding...