Folk physics for apes

By Daniel J. Povinelli. 2000

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The limits and potentials of deep learning for robotics (2018, background): “Humans, on the other hand, operate under intuitive rather than exact physical models [6], [7], [10], [45], [74], [88].”
Handbook of Metamemory and Memory (2013, background): “Being able to take another’s point of view — a sophisticated kind of metacognition known as theory of mind (Frith & Happe, 1999; Heyes, 1998; Leslie, 1987; Perner, 1991; Povinelli, 2000) — is indisputably appealing.”
Do capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella, know what conspecifics do and do not see? (2003, background): “In the hope of drawing inferences about human social cognitive evolution, the vast majority of these studies have focused on nonhuman primates (Tomasello & Call 1997; Povinelli 2000).”
What is the human language faculty?: Two views (2011, unknown): “3 [End Page 587] â€¢Â Â Â attentionâ€¢Â Â Â 'general intelligence'â€¢Â Â Â a capacity for joint attention (present to some degree in chimpanzees (”
PHYRE: A New Benchmark for Physical Reasoning (2019, background): “For this reason, testing the ability to solve novel physics puzzles has been used to measure the reasoning abilities of human children [7, 53] as well as non-human animals such as capuchin monkeys [52, 54], chimpanzees [40], crows [19, 48], finches [49], and rooks [5].”
Causal knowledge and imitation/emulation switching in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens) (2005, background): “…controlled studies have often indicated that the causal knowledge that underlies these abilities is based on identifying observable regularities in the environment that are used to form useful procedural rules (Köhler 1927; Visalberghi and Tomasello 1998; Povinelli 2000; Reaux and Povinelli 2000).”
The myth of language universals: language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. (2009, background): “& Povinelli, D. J. (2007a) Causal cognition in human and nonhuman”
The Social Neuroscience of Empathy (2009, background): “Self-reflexive capability may be a crucial difference between humans and other animals (Povinelli, 2001).”
We don't need a microscope to explore the chimpanzee's mind (2004, background): “…to reconstruct the evolution of certain forms of cognition, we should never lose sight of the fact that the human mind is not the only psychological system in town (a point we have repeatedly stressed in recent years: e.g. Povinelli and Prince, 1998; Povinelli, 2000; Povinelli and Bering, 2002).”
The First Joke: Exploring the Evolutionary Origins of Humor (2006, background): “However, the enhanced appreciation for causality or visual spatial skills presumably necessary for more sophisticated tool development (Geary, 2005; Povinelli, 2000) does not readily lend itself to be compared with humor skills.”
The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents (2005, background): “See, e.g., Povinelli (2000), for evidence concerning the relative shallowness of the mind-reading and naive physics modules possessed by our nearest cousins, the chimpanzees.”
A comparison of innovative problem-solving abilities between wild and captive spotted hyaenas, Crocuta crocuta (2013, background): “Thus, researchers have adopted the strategy of inducing innovation by presenting captive individuals with a novel problem-solving task (Köhler 1925; Visalberghi et al. 1995; Povinelli 2000; Heinrich & Bugnyar 2005; Santos et al. 2006; Bond et al. 2007; Tebbich et al. 2007; Boogert et al. 2008; de Me”