Title
Chapter Title: Chimpanzees plan their tool use
Book Title: Tool Use in Animals: Cognition and Ecology
Author(s)
Byrne, R. W.;Sanz, C. M.;Morgan, D. B.
Published
2013
Abstract
To a cognitive psychologist, chimpanzee tool use is exciting because of the opportunity itbrings to examine how apes deal with a range of challenging situations that in humanswould invoke planning. By planning it is meant a special kind of problem solving inwhich an appropriate course of action for the immediate or distant future is worked out bymeans of mental computation with brain representations of past or present situations(Miller et al., 1960). These include: a working representation of the current situation thatpresents a problem; episodic memories of speci?c past instances and events; andsemantic knowledge about how things work or how people behave.

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