*Patreon Preview* Decoding Academia 8: Monkey see, Monkey do?
May 24, 2022
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May 24, 2022
*Patreon Preview* Decoding Academia 8: Monkey see, Monkey do?
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Summary
<p>Ahead of the Jaron Lanier episode a special preview episode of our ongoing Decoding Academia series.</p><p>This week Matt and Chris take a look at a classic comparative study of social learning processes in chimpanzees and infants (Horner & Whiten, 2005). They discover the correct method to break into a puzzle box, that chimpanzees are sometimes more logical than people, and that popular idioms do not always house universal truths.</p><p>For anyone interested in reading the paper it is available for free <a href="https://www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS/publications/articles/Horner_Whiten_2005.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>We will be back later in the week with our normal decoding episode.</p>
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