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Spontaneous innovation for future deception in a male chimpanzee.

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Summary, in English

The ability to invent means to deceive others, where the deception lies in the perceptually or contextually detached future, appears to require the coordination of sophisticated cognitive skills toward a single goal. Meanwhile innovation for a current situation has been observed in a wide range of species. Planning, on the one hand, and the social cognition required for deception on the other, have been linked to one another, both from a co-evolutionary and a neuroanatomical perspective. Innovation and deception have also been suggested to be connected in their nature of relying on novelty.

Department/s

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Publication/Series

PLoS ONE

Volume

7

Issue

5

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Topic

  • Zoology
  • Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)

Status

Published

Project

  • Phylogenetic reconstruction of the human skill to imagine

Research group

  • LUCS Cognitive Zoology Group
  • Lund University Cognitive Science (LUCS)

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1932-6203