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SUBMITTER: Roberts AI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4350813 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20140101
Humans routinely communicate to coordinate their activities, persisting and elaborating signals to pursue goals that cannot be accomplished individually. Communicative persistence is associated with complex cognitive skills such as intentionality, because interactants modify their communication in response to another's understanding of their meaning. Here we show that two language-trained chimpanzees effectively use intentional gestures to coordinate with an experimentally naive human to retriev ...[more]