Apes, Monkeys, Children, and the Growth of Mind

By J. Gomez. 2004

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What can the study of young monkeys and apes tell us about the minds of young humans? In this fascinating introduction to the study of primate minds, Juan Carlos Gomez identifies evolutionary resemblances - and differences - between human children and other primates. He argues that primate minds are best understood not as fixed collections of specialized cognitive capacities, but more dynamically, as a range of abilities that can surpass their original adaptations. In a lively overview of a distinguished body of cognitive developmental research among nonhuman primates, Gomez looks at knowledge of the physical world, causal reasoning (including the chimpanzee-like errors that human children make), and the contentious subjects of ape language, theory of mind, and imitation.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology

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The dog as a model for understanding human social behavior (2009, background): “Nonverbal variants of experiments used to tap into the ability to recognize knowledge or ignorance in others (Gomez, 2004) have been applied to the dog (Topál et al.”
Origins of Meaning: Must We 'Go Gricean'? (2013, background): “…signs with natural meaning.16 Tomasello describes such expressive behaviors as mere ‘communicative 15 See Leavens and Hopkins, 1998; Hauser, 1999; Gómez, 1996, 1998b, 2004; Parr and Maestripieri, 2003; Miklósi et al., 2004; Leavens et al., 2005; Pack and Herman, 2006; and Cheney and…”
Action Anticipation Through Attribution of False Belief by 2-Year-Olds (2007, background): “Despite the many examples of 2-year-olds’ apparent appreciation of mental states, for more than 20 years the consensus has been that children younger than about 4 years of age lack a theory of mind because they have been repeatedly shown to fail the classic false-belief test (Wellman, Cross, & Watso”
Concept learning in animals. (2008, background): “…increasingly available literature in comparative cognition (e.g., Bekoff, Allen, & Burghardt, 2002; Cook, 2001; Cummins & Allen, 1998; Fagot, 1999; Gomez, 2004; Heyes & Huber, 2000; Lazareva & Wasserman, in press; Mackintosh, 1994; Rogers & Kaplan, 2004; Roitblat & Meyer, 1995; Sternberg &…”
Why do gestures matter? Sensuous cognition and the palpability of mathematical meanings (2009, background): “This results in complex cross-modal or multisensory representations of objects” (Gómez 2004, p. 33).”