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Started in 1978, it is one of the longest running laboratory research projects on chimpanzee intelligence. Matsuzawa has been a part of the project since the beginning. Matsuzawa has also studied tool use in the wild chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea, West Africa since 1986. The bossou chimpanzee community consists of about 12 individuals and has ...
Primate cognition. The chimpanzee Böbe painting in 1967. Primate cognition is the study of the intellectual and behavioral skills of non-human primates, particularly in the fields of psychology, behavioral biology, primatology, and anthropology. [1]
The cognitive tradeoff hypothesis argues that in the cognitive evolution of humans, there was an evolutionary tradeoff between short-term working memory and complex language skills. Specifically, early hominids sacrificed the robust working memory seen in chimpanzees for more complex representations and hierarchical organization used in language.
Sarah (full name Sarah Anne) (August 1959 – July 2019) [1] was an enculturated research chimpanzee whose cognitive skills were documented in the 1983 book The Mind of an Ape, by David Premack and Ann James Premack. [2] Sarah was one of nine chimpanzees in David Premack's psychology laboratory in Pennsylvania. Sarah was born in Africa in 1959.
Sarah Till "Sally" Boysen (born March 5, 1949) is a professor of psychology at Ohio State University. [1] Boysen is a primate researcher and former Director of the Chimp Center at the university. [2] She was selected as one of the top 50 women scientists by Discover magazine in 2002. [3]
The Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute ( CHCI) was located on the campus of Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. CHCI included a sanctuary for chimpanzees who have learned to communicate with humans and each other using American Sign Language. CHCI's director was Mary Lee Jensvold.
intelligence testing. Scientific career. Fields. psychology. Robert Mearns Yerkes (/ ˈjɜːrkiːz /; May 26, 1876 – February 3, 1956) was an American psychologist, ethologist, eugenicist and primatologist best known for his work in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology. Yerkes was a pioneer in the study both of ...
Research. Pika's research centers on the evolution and development of language, cognition and plasticity by focusing on model groups that are characterized by complex social relationships and networks. She uses a combination of methods of ethology, comparative psychology, cognitive science and artificial intelligence.