Download or read book The Perception of Distortions in the Signs of American Sign Language by a Group of Cross fostered Chimpanzees Pan Troglodytes written by Julia Quentin Davis and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Apes and Humans written by Benjamin B. Beck and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great apes -- gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans -- are known to be our closest living relatives. Chimpanzees in particular share 98 percent of our DNA, and scientists widely agree that they exhibit intellectual abilities long thought to be unique to humans, such as self-awareness and the ability to interpret the moods and identify the needs of others. The close relation of apes to humans raises important ethical questions. Are they better protected in the wild or in zoos? Should they be used in biomedical research? Should they be afforded the same legal protections as humans? Great Apes and Humans is the first book to present a spectrum of viewpoints on human responsibilities toward great apes. A variety of field biologists, academic scientists, zoo professionals, psychologists, sociologists, ethicists, and legal scholars consider apes in both the wild and captivity. They present sobering statistics on the declining numbers of wild apes, specifically discussing the decimation of great ape populations due to wild game consumption. They explore the role of apes in the educational missions of zoos as well as the need for sanctuaries for wild ape orphans and former research subjects. After examining the social division between apes and humans from historical, evolutionary, and cognitive perspectives, they conclude by reviewing the current moral and legal status of great apes as well as how apes' cognitive skills inform these issues. Although this provocative book contains many different opinions, the uniting concern of the contributors is the safety and well-being of great apes. Only by continuing the dialogue so clearly presented here can we hope to ensure their future.
Download or read book Cross fostered Chimpanzees Modulate Signs of American Sign Language written by Valerie J. Chalcraft and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teaching Sign Language to Chimpanzees written by R. Allen Gardner and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1989-07-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, the Gardners and their co-workers explore the continuity between human behavior and the rest of animal behavior and find no barriers to be broken, no chasms to be bridged, only unknown territory to be charted and fresh discoveries to be made. With the beginning of Project Washoe in 1966, sign language studies of chimpanzees opened up a new field of scientific inquiry by providing a new tool for looking at the nature of language and intelligence and the relation between human and nonhuman intelligence. Here, the pioneers in this field review the unique procedures that they developed and the extensive body of evidence accumulated over the years. This close look at what the chimpanzees have actually done and said under rigorous laboratory conditions is the best answer to the heated controversies that have been generated by this line of research among ethologists, psychologists, anthropologists, linguists, and philosophers.
Download or read book The Nonhuman Primates written by Phyllis Dolhinow and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1999 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introductory textbook comprising 34 essays written expressly for the volume by specialists in various topics and species. The first section surveys the species, the taxonomy, and their survival status; the second samples aspects of primate behavior, including the primate group, the life span, the
Download or read book Long term Memory of American Sign Language in a Chimpanzee Pan Troglodytes written by Summer Lee Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For hundreds of years, humans have dismissed the possibility that animals possess long-term memory capabilities. This study examines the long-term memory of American Sign Language (ASL) by a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). The study of long-term memory in apes may help evolutionary psychologists to understand how humans have evolved to have cognitive abilities that are unequaled by other species. Booee, the participant in this study, was involved in the ape language experiments of the 1970s. His study concluded in 1982, and since that time he has not regularly conversed in ASL. In the current study, Booee was presented with five items from his former ASL vocabulary list. When asked for an item in ASL, he was expected to point to the item. Items were presented in groups of four. The hypothesis of this study was that Booee would point to the correct item at significantly above the chance level of 25%. As a control measure, he was also presented with five items for which he had never learned the signs. When asked to point to these items (also in groups of four), it was expected that he would answer correctly at chance. This might demonstrate that he remembered the 'old' signs, and possesses long-term memory capabilities. Data analysis showed that his correct answers for both "old" and "new" signs were consistently at chance level. Although the data did not support the hypothesis, informal observations of Booee's sign production may demonstrate that he does possess long-term memory of ASL. Long-term memory research in animals is scarce. It has only been in the last 15 years that serious progress has been achieved. Adding to the scientific literature on long-term memory in animals will encourage other researchers to examine this phenomenon, and will help evolutionary psychologists to better understand the memory capabilities of our closest relatives, and ourselves.
Download or read book Next of Kin written by Roger Fouts and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of this moving and vibrant book is Fouts' magical, 30-year friendship with Washoe--the chimp whom Fouts has taught American Sign Language--whose dialogues with the author have opened a window into chimpanzee consciousness. of photos.
Download or read book Variables Affecting the Use of Vocalizations and ASL Signs by Two Cross fostered Chimpanzees written by Patrick Drumm and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effect of Social Context on the Use of American Sign Language by Five Chimpanzees Pan Troglodytes written by Vicki Marie Kennerud and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of Familiarity and Use of American Sign Language ASL on Chimpanzee Pan Troglodytes Conversational Behavior written by Jessica Andrea Hartel and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Variables Affecting the Use of Vocalizations and ASL Signs by Two Cross fostered Chimpanzees written by Patrick M. Drumm and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sign Language And Language Acquisition In Man And Ape written by Fred C. C. Peng and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together recent research findings on sign language and primatology and offers a novel approach to comparative language acquisition. The contributors are anthropologists, psychologists, linguists, psycholinguists, and manual language experts. They present a lucid account of what sign language is in relation to oral language, and o
Download or read book Nim written by Herbert S. Terrace and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Use of the Signs of ASL in the Production of Additive conjunctive Groupings of Colored Exemplars by a Chimpanzee Pan Troglodytes written by Katherine Cadish Hall and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Use of Signs for Negation and Affirmation by Five Cross Fostered Chimpanzees written by Diane L. Cameron and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cross fostered Chimanzees Modulate Signs of American Sign Language written by Valerie Jean Chalcraft and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of Partner Familiarity on Conversational Style in Signed interactions with Chimpanzees written by Susan Ann Keenan and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Abstract: Chimpanzees that use signs of American Sign Language (ASL) sign to friends and strangers, both human and nonhuman. Transcripts of signed conversations between four chimpanzees and 43 human interlocutors within a 4 min trial were analyzed for their style including lexical diversity. Twenty-two of the interlocutors were familiar to the chimpanzees, 21 were strangers, and all had basic or more knowledge of ASL. Overall, familiar signers used more vocabulary and had more conversations than unfamiliar signers. The two groups had 53 vocabulary signs in common. Only one chimpanzee, Loulis, participated in enough trials and in both conditions to elicit comparisons of responses. Loulis used a greater number of signs in trail with unfamiliar signers than familiar signers. Loulis' total number of utterances and the total number of utterances of signers in both conditions were positively correlated. Loulis used the same lexicon for both conditions; however, he repeated himself more with strangers than familiars.
