S3 E15: Your Mind on Great Apes' Social Cognition,
with Dr. Laura Lewis
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What do the social lives of chimps and bonobos reveal about human cognition? Join us as biological anthropologist & comparative psychologist Dr. Laura Lewis tells us about the social structures of our closest living relatives & shares her research on how chimps and bonobos remember friends and foes and manage their social attention. Beth and Ava discuss how to think about the similarities and differences between humans and other great apes.
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Dr. Laura Lewis
Research discussed
Dr. Lewis' research
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Lewis, L. S., Kano, F., Stevens, J. M., DuBois, J. G., Call, J., & Krupenye, C. (2021). Bonobos and chimpanzees preferentially attend to familiar members of the dominant sex. Animal Behaviour, 177, 193-206.
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Lewis, L., & Krupenye, C. (2022). Theory of mind in nonhuman primates.
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Lewis, L. S., & Krupenye, C. (2022a). Eye‐tracking as a window into primate social cognition. American journal of primatology, 84(10), e23393.
Other Media:
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Godfrey-Smith, P. (2016). Other minds: The octopus, the sea, and the deep origins of consciousness. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Documentary: My Octopus Teacher