Reliance on head versus eyes in the gaze following of great apes and human infants: the cooperative eye hypothesis

2006/10/21 by Michael Tomasello, Brian Hare, Hagen Lehmann +1 · 1 voice · 3 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Child and Animal Learning Development #Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies #Primate Behavior and Ecology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.10.001

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Citations

• Social Cognition, Joint Attention, and Communicative Competence from 9 to 15 Months of Age

Cited by

• The Apemen Faces Database (ApeFD)
• Revisiting the Object‐Processing Paradigm in the Study of Gaze Cues: What Two Decades of Research Have Taught Us About Infant Social Learning
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Discussions

• What I just summarized is the cooperative eye hypothesis (CEH), coined in 2007. It’s based on studies of primate eye color and the observation that captive African apes are less inclined to follow the [bsky, 5 points, 1 comments]