Monkeys Show Theory of Mind

Raymundo Báez-Mendoza¹, Ziv M Williams²

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¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Electronic address: rbaez-mendoza@mgh.harvard.edu.
² Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Program in Neuroscience; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: zwilliams@mgh.harvard.edu.

PMID: 32234469
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.03.057

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Monkeys Show Theory of Mind

Raymundo Báez-Mendoza et al. Cell Rep. 2020.

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. 2020 Mar 31;30(13):4319-4320.

doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.03.057.

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Raymundo Báez-Mendoza¹, Ziv M Williams²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Electronic address: rbaez-mendoza@mgh.harvard.edu.
² Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Program in Neuroscience; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: zwilliams@mgh.harvard.edu.

PMID: 32234469
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.03.057

Abstract

Hayashi et al. (2020) provide evidence that Japanese macaques show theory of mind abilities in an anticipatory-looking variant of the canonical false belief task. This study paves the way to investigate the neuronal basis of social cognition in non-human primates.

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Macaques Exhibit Implicit Gaze Bias Anticipating Others' False-Belief-Driven Actions via Medial Prefrontal Cortex.
Hayashi T, Akikawa R, Kawasaki K, Egawa J, Minamimoto T, Kobayashi K, Kato S, Hori Y, Nagai Y, Iijima A, Someya T, Hasegawa I. Hayashi T, et al. Cell Rep. 2020 Mar 31;30(13):4433-4444.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.03.013. Cell Rep. 2020. PMID: 32234478

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