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Apes ape!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

Deborah Custance
Deborah Custance
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, KY16 9JU, Scotlanddcustance.gold.ac.uk
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Abstract

Heyes's claim that the only unequivocal evidence of motor imitation comes from rats and budgerigars is contested. It is suggested that the rats' behavior can be explained by emulation and the budgerigars' by response facilitation. Behavioral matching in chimpanzees (Custance et al. 1995; Whiten et al. 1996) is reconsidered and interpreted in terms of imitation.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , February 1998 , pp. 118 - 119
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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