Monkeys choose, but do not learn, through exclusion
Human children will select a novel object from among a group of known objects when presented with a novel object name. This disambiguation by exclusion may facilitate new name-object mappings and may play a role in the rapid word learning shown by young children. Animals including dogs, apes, monkey...
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Animal Behavior and Cognition
2018-02-01
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Online Access: | http://animalbehaviorandcognition.org/uploads/journals/18/AB_C_2018_Vol5(1)_Gazes_et_al.pdf |