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According to Wikipedia, Michael Tomasello is an American developmental and comparative psychologist, as well as a linguist. He is professor of psychology at Duke University. Earning many prizes and awards from the end of the 1990s onward, he is considered one of today's most authoritative developmental and comparative psychologists. He is "one of the few scientists worldwide who is acknowledged as an expert in multiple disciplines". His "pioneering research on the origins of social cognition has led to revolutionary insights in both developmental psychology and primate cognition."

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Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition (2005) (3711)
Origins of human communication (2008) (2945)
Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? 30 years later (2008) (2578)
Social cognition, joint attention, and communicative competence from 9 to 15 months of age. (1998) (2357)
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (2000) (2187)
Joint attention and early language. (1986) (1532)
Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition (2003) (1495)
Joint attention as social cognition. (1995) (1290)
Altruistic Helping in Human Infants and Young Chimpanzees (2006) (1241)
A Natural History of Human Thinking (2014) (1186)
Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis (2007) (1164)
Why We Cooperate (2009) (958)
The Domestication of Social Cognition in Dogs (2002) (935)
First Verbs: A Case Study of Early Grammatical Development (1994) (858)
Do young children have adult syntactic competence? (2000) (850)
Do chimpanzees know what conspecifics know? (2001) (833)
Human-like social skills in dogs? (2005) (829)
Chimpanzees know what conspecifics do and do not see (2000) (816)
A new look at infant pointing. (2007) (812)
Primate Cognition (2010) (792)
Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture (2009) (782)
Cultural learning. Author's reply (1993) (745)
Fourteen-through 18-month-old infants di eren-tially imitate intentional and accidental actions (1998) (669)
Joint music making promotes prosocial behavior in 4-year-old children☆☆☆ (2010) (645)
Shared intentionality. (2007) (612)
Helping and Cooperation at 14 Months of Age. (2007) (608)
Joint attention and lexical acquisition style (1983) (604)
The role of language in the development of false belief understanding: a training study. (2003) (536)
Eighteen-month-old infants show false belief understanding in an active helping paradigm (2009) (521)
Origins of human cooperation and morality. (2013) (506)
What Makes Human Cognition Unique? From Individual to Shared to Collective Intentionality (2003) (488)
Cooperative activities in young children and chimpanzees. (2006) (488)
The new psychology of language : cognitive and functional approaches to language structure (1998) (487)
Chimpanzees Recruit the Best Collaborators (2006) (481)
Spontaneous Altruism by Chimpanzees and Young Children (2007) (477)
The sources of normativity: young children's awareness of the normative structure of games. (2008) (471)
The roots of human altruism. (2009) (468)
Chimpanzees understand psychological states – the question is which ones and to what extent (2003) (468)
Great apes anticipate that other individuals will act according to false beliefs (2016) (467)
Processes of social learning in the tool use of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and human children (Homo sapiens). (1993) (449)
The Human Adaptation for Culture (1999) (446)
Twelve-month-olds point to share attention and interest. (2004) (444)
Imitative learning of actions on objects by children, chimpanzees, and enculturated chimpanzees. (1993) (443)
The social bases of language acquisition (1992) (429)
First Steps toward a Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition (2001) (428)
The item-based nature of children’s early syntactic development (2000) (423)
Five primate species follow the visual gaze of conspecifics (1998) (420)
12- and 18-Month-Olds Point to Provide Information for Others (2006) (415)
A Natural History of Human Morality (2016) (405)
A nonverbal false belief task: the performance of children and great apes. (1999) (404)
Observational learning of tool-use by young chimpanzees (1987) (402)
Sympathy through affective perspective taking and its relation to prosocial behavior in toddlers. (2009) (398)
Reliance on head versus eyes in the gaze following of great apes and human infants: the cooperative eye hypothesis. (2007) (387)
Constructing a Language (2005) (385)
Cooperation and human cognition: the Vygotskian intelligence hypothesis (2007) (377)
Joint drumming: social context facilitates synchronization in preschool children. (2009) (372)
The development of gestural communication in young chimpanzees (1985) (358)
Unwilling versus unable: infants' understanding of intentional action. (2005) (355)
Chimpanzees Are Rational Maximizers in an Ultimatum Game (2007) (350)
Engineering cooperation in chimpanzees: tolerance constraints on cooperation (2006) (350)
Making inferences about the location of hidden food: social dog, causal ape. (2006) (349)
What's in it for me? Self-regard precludes altruism and spite in chimpanzees (2006) (346)
Learning words in nonostensive contexts (1994) (342)
Reply to comments. Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation: The Interdependence Hypothesis (2012) (339)
Chimpanzee and Human Cultures (1998) (337)
Chimpanzees are more skilful in competitive than in cooperative cognitive tasks (2004) (336)
The ultra-social animal (2014) (333)
The Role of Joint Attentional Processes in Early Language Development. (1988) (332)
Twelve-month-olds communicate helpfully and appropriately for knowledgeable and ignorant partners (2008) (331)
'Unwilling' versus 'unable': chimpanzees' understanding of human intentional action. (2004) (329)
Domestic goats, Capra hircus, follow gaze direction and use social cues in an object choice task (2005) (327)
Domestic Dogs (Canis familiaris) Use Human and Conspecific Social Cues to Locate Hidden Food (1999) (322)
Cultural transmission in the tool use and communicatory signaling of chimpanzees (1990) (320)
Understanding attention: 12- and 18-month-olds know what is new for other persons. (2003) (319)
Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) are sensitive to the attentional state of humans. (2003) (315)
Chimpanzees know what others know, but not what they believe (2008) (307)
Early syntactic creativity: a usage-based approach. (2003) (300)
Varieties of altruism in children and chimpanzees (2009) (299)
Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions: The Case of Let Alone (2003) (287)
The Role of Discourse Novelty in Early Word Learning (1996) (283)
Collaboration encourages equal sharing in children but not in chimpanzees (2011) (282)
Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation (2012) (273)
Production and comprehension of referential pointing by orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus). (1994) (271)
CHAPTER 15 – Do Apes Ape? (1996) (270)
One-year-olds comprehend the communicative intentions behind gestures in a hiding game. (2005) (269)
Conformity to peer pressure in preschool children. (2011) (268)
A New Look at the Acquisition of Relative Clauses (2005) (267)
Level 1 perspective-taking at 24 months of age (2006) (267)
Joint attention on actions: acquiring verbs in ostensive and non-ostensive contexts (1992) (266)
Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny (2019) (265)
Young children's productivity with word order and verb morphology. (1997) (263)
Extrinsic rewards undermine altruistic tendencies in 20-month-olds. (2008) (261)
Perceiving intentions and learning words in the second year of life (2000) (259)
12- and 18-month-old infants follow gaze to spaces behind barriers. (2004) (259)
Twelve- and 18-month-olds copy actions in terms of goals. (2005) (255)
Cues to food location that domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) of different ages do and do not use (2000) (254)
A construction based analysis of child directed speech (2003) (248)
Enculturated chimpanzees imitate rationally. (2007) (248)
The learning and use of gestural signals by young chimpanzees: A trans-generational study (1994) (245)
Two-year-olds learn novel nouns, verbs, and conventional actions from massed or distributed exposures. (2002) (243)
All great ape species follow gaze to distant locations and around barriers. (2005) (242)
Young children selectively avoid helping people with harmful intentions. (2010) (241)
Young children enforce social norms selectively depending on the violator’s group affiliation (2012) (239)
Exemplar-learning and schematization in a usage-based account of syntactic acquisition (2006) (238)
Testing the abstractness of children's linguistic representations: lexical and structural priming of syntactic constructions in young children. (2003) (236)
Chimpanzees deceive a human competitor by hiding (2006) (233)
Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, follow gaze direction geometrically (1999) (231)
Young Children Are Intrinsically Motivated to See Others Helped (2012) (229)
The acquisition of finite complement clauses in English: A corpus-based analysis (2001) (227)
Comprehension of novel communicative signs by apes and human children. (1997) (224)
The early ontogeny of human–dog communication (2008) (222)
Early social cognition in three cultural contexts. (2011) (221)
Five-Year Olds, but Not Chimpanzees, Attempt to Manage Their Reputations (2012) (221)
Gestural communication in young gorillas (Gorilla gorilla): Gestural repertoire, learning, and use (2003) (219)
Young Children Share the Spoils After Collaboration (2011) (216)
Copying results and copying actions in the process of social learning: chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and human children (Homo sapiens) (2005) (215)
Sampling children's spontaneous speech: how much is enough? (2004) (215)
Two-year-old children's production of multiword utterances: A usage-based analysis (2009) (214)
A Construction Based Analysis of Child Directed Speech. (2003) (213)
The emergence of social cognition in three young chimpanzees. (2005) (213)
Young children learn to produce passives with nonce verbs. (1999) (208)
How Children Constrain Their Argument Structure Constructions. (1999) (208)
Communication of Food Location Between Human and Dog ( Canis Familiaris ) (1998) (208)
Chimpanzee gaze following in an object-choice task (1998) (206)
How 14- and 18-month-olds know what others have experienced. (2007) (206)
The usage-based theory of language acquisition (2009) (206)
The effect of humans on the cognitive development of apes (1996) (205)
Linguistic environment of 1- to 2-year-old twins. (1986) (203)
Re-enacting intended acts: Comparing 12- and 18-month-olds (1999) (203)
Three-year-old children intervene in third-party moral transgressions. (2010) (203)
German children's comprehension of word order and case marking in causative sentences. (2008) (202)
Use of gesture sequences in chimpanzees (2004) (202)
The Effect of Video Context on Foreign Language Learning (1992) (200)
The Changing Role of Iconicity in Non-Verbal Symbol Learning: A U-Shaped Trajectory in the Acquisition of Arbitrary Gestures (2004) (200)
Object relatives made easy: A cross-linguistic comparison of the constraints influencing young children's processing of relative clauses (2007) (199)
Distinguishing intentional from accidental actions in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and human children (Homo sapiens). (1998) (199)
Beyond Names for Things: Young Children's Acquisition of Verbs (1997) (198)
Two-Year-Olds Use Pragmatic Cues to Differentiate Reference to Objects and Actions (1995) (195)
Feedback for Language Transfer Errors (1989) (193)
Gestural communication in subadult bonobos (Pan paniscus): Repertoire and use (2005) (186)
Differences in the Cognitive Skills of Bonobos and Chimpanzees (2010) (185)
The Ontogeny of Chimpanzee Gestural Signals: A Comparison Across Groups and Generations (1997) (185)
Gesture and the emergence and development of language (2004) (184)
Understanding and sharing intentions (2005) (183)
Beyond names for things : young children's acquisition of verbs (1999) (183)
The role of pronouns in young children's acquisition of the English transitive construction. (2001) (182)
The social nature of words and word learning (2000) (182)
Language is not an instinct (1995) (182)
Eighteen-month-old children learn words in non-ostensive contexts (1996) (181)
Do young children use objects as symbols (1999) (181)
Young children care more about their reputation with ingroup members and potential reciprocators. (2013) (179)
The effect of perceptual availability and prior discourse on young children's use of referring expressions (2006) (179)
Young children’s understanding of violations of property rights (2011) (175)
Young children's conversations with their mothers and fathers: differences in breakdown and repair (1990) (174)
The role of frequency in the acquisition of English word order (2005) (173)
Cooperative Problem‐Solving and Teaching in Preschoolers (2001) (172)
Down the Garden Path: Inducing and correcting overgeneralization errors in the foreign language classroom (1988) (170)
Acquiring Linguistic Constructions (2007) (170)
Why Don't Apes Point? (2006) (170)
Transactive Discussions with Peers and Adults. (1986) (169)
Body orientation and face orientation: two factors controlling apes’ begging behavior from humans (2004) (169)
Are apes really inequity averse? (2006) (168)
The domestication hypothesis for dogs' skills with human communication: a response to Udell et al. (2008) and Wynne et al. (2008) (2010) (168)
Chimpanzees are vengeful but not spiteful (2007) (166)
Young children's understanding of joint commitments. (2009) (165)
Chimpanzees help conspecifics obtain food and non-food items (2011) (164)
Cues that chimpanzees do and do not use to find hidden objects (2000) (163)
Majority-Biased Transmission in Chimpanzees and Human Children, but Not Orangutans (2012) (161)
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) conceal visual and auditory information from others. (2006) (161)
Children's first language acquisition from a usage-based perspective (2008) (159)
Gestural communication of orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) (2006) (157)
Differential productivity in young children's use of nouns and verbs (1997) (156)
Infants use shared experience to interpret pointing gestures. (2009) (155)
To move or not to move: How apes adjust to the attentional state of others (2004) (154)
Twenty-Five-Month-Old Children Do Not Have a Grammatical Category of Verb. (1993) (153)
Learning to use prepositions: a case study (1987) (151)
The social-pragmatic theory of word learning. (2000) (151)
Chimpanzee Use of Human and Conspecific Social Cues to Locate Hidden Food (1999) (151)
A Comparison of the Gestural Communication of Apes and Human Infants (1997) (150)
Pointing out new news, old news, and absent referents at 12 months of age. (2007) (150)
Push or Pull: Imitation vs. Emulation in Great Apes and Human Children (2006) (150)
THE INSTRUMENT IS GREAT, BUT MEASURING COMPREHENSION IS STILL A PROBLEM (1994) (150)
Young children's overgeneralizations with fixed transitivity verbs. (1999) (149)
The ontogeny of gaze following in chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, and rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta (2001) (147)
Twelve-month-olds' comprehension and production of pointing. (2012) (146)
Two-year-olds learn words for absent objects and actions. (1996) (146)
Chimpanzees really know what others can see in a competitive situation (2007) (146)
Role Reversal Imitation and Language in Typically Developing Infants and Children With Autism (2005) (145)
Joint Attention and Imitative Learning in Children, Chimpanzees, and Enculturated Chimpanzees* (1995) (145)
Are apes inequity averse? New data on the token‐exchange paradigm (2009) (145)
Visual perspective taking in dogs (Canis familiaris) in the presence of barriers (2004) (141)
Children's developing commitments to joint goals. (2012) (141)
Young Children Enforce Social Norms (2012) (140)
Young children attribute normativity to novel actions without pedagogy or normative language. (2011) (139)
Young children's earliest transitive and intransitive constructions (1998) (139)
Do chimpanzees reciprocate received favours? (2008) (139)
Modeling children's early grammatical knowledge (2009) (139)
Being mimicked increases prosocial behavior in 18-month-old infants. (2013) (135)
The Structure of Individual Differences in the Cognitive Abilities of Children and Chimpanzees (2010) (134)
Understanding "prior intentions" enables two-year-olds to imitatively learn a complex task. (2002) (133)
A longitudinal investigation of gestural communication in young chimpanzees (2006) (131)
Infants Determine Others' Focus of Attention by Pragmatics and Exclusion (2006) (131)
How children come to understand false beliefs: A shared intentionality account (2018) (129)
Having intentions, understanding intentions, and understanding communicative intentions (1999) (128)
Structural Priming as Implicit Learning in Language Acquisition: The Persistence of Lexical and Structural Priming in 4-Year-Olds (2006) (127)
Early syntactic development: A Construction Grammar approach. (1999) (127)
Young children know that trying is not pretending: a test of the "behaving-as-if" construal of children's early concept of pretense. (2004) (125)
The emergence of contingent reciprocity in young children. (2013) (124)
Parental presence and encouragement do not influence helping in young children (2013) (124)
How dogs know when communication is intended for them. (2012) (123)
Verb learning in children with SLI: frequency and spacing effects. (2005) (122)
Origins of the human pointing gesture: a training study. (2012) (122)
Primate causal understanding in the physical and psychological domains (1998) (122)
A competitive nonverbal false belief task for children and apes. (2009) (120)
No third-party punishment in chimpanzees (2012) (120)
Do capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella, know what conspecifics do and do not see? (2003) (119)
The development of the ability to recognize the meaning of iconic signs. (2008) (118)
The role of humans in the cognitive development of apes revisited (2004) (118)
Beyond nature-nurture: Essays in honor of Elizabeth Bates (2005) (118)
Fourteen-month-olds know what others experience only in joint engagement. (2007) (116)
Children Conform to the Behavior of Peers; Other Great Apes Stick With What They Know (2014) (112)
Examining correlates of cooperation in autism (2009) (112)
Helping and Cooperation in Children with Autism (2007) (112)
Children's developing understanding of legitimate reasons for allocating resources unequally (2016) (112)
Prelinguistic Infants, but Not Chimpanzees, Communicate About Absent Entities (2009) (112)
Reference and attitude in infant pointing. (2007) (112)
Young children's selective learning of rule games from reliable and unreliable models (2009) (112)
The discourse bases of relativization: An investigation of young German and English-speaking children's comprehension of relative clauses (2009) (111)
Acquiring Grammatical Structures by Guided Induction (1992) (110)
Rational Imitation in 12-Month-Old Infants (2006) (110)
Social and object support for early symbolic play (2001) (109)
Untrained Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) Fail to Imitate Novel Actions (2012) (109)
Young children's responses to neutral and specific contingent queries (1986) (109)
A dense corpus study of past tense and plural overregularization in English. (2004) (108)
Domestic dogs are sensitive to a human's perspective (2009) (107)
Language development : the essential readings (2001) (107)
The rest of the family: the role of fathers and siblings in early language development (1994) (106)
Breed Differences in Domestic Dogs' (Canis familiaris) Comprehension of Human Communicative Signals (2009) (105)
The role of the input in the acquisition of third person singular verbs in English. (2003) (105)
Fair Is Not Fair Everywhere (2015) (105)
Normativity and context in young children's pretend play (2009) (104)
Collaborative partner or social tool? New evidence for young children's understanding of joint intentions in collaborative activities. (2012) (104)
Flexibility in early verb use : evidence from a multiple-n dairy study : I. Introduction (2009) (102)
Muscular Thin Films for Building Actuators and Powering Devices (2007) (102)
Chimpanzees versus humans: it's not that simple (2003) (102)
Great Apes' Understanding of Other Individuals' Line of Sight (2007) (101)
The ontogenetic ritualization of bonobo gestures (2013) (101)
Twenty-Three-Month-Old Children Have a Grammatical Category of Noun. (1993) (101)
Use of social information in the problem solving of orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens). (1995) (101)
Individual differences in social, cognitive, and morphological aspects of infant pointing (2011) (100)
Children, but Not Chimpanzees, Prefer to Collaborate (2011) (99)
Ape and Human Cognition (2010) (99)
Coordination strategies of chimpanzees and human children in a Stag Hunt game (2014) (99)
Cognitive bases of lexical development: object permanence and relational words (1984) (99)
Examining the role of lexical frequency in the acquisition and processing of sentential complements (2006) (99)
Young children follow pointing over words in interpreting acts of reference. (2010) (98)
Human Culture in Evolutionary Perspective (2010) (98)
Fourteen-Month-Olds Know What “We” Have Shared in a Special Way (2008) (98)
How toddlers and preschoolers learn to uniquely identify referents for others: a training study. (2007) (97)
The acquisition of English dative constructions (2001) (95)
Infant cognition (2010) (95)
Evidence for Emulation in Chimpanzees in Social Settings Using the Floating Peanut Task (2010) (95)
Social communication in siamangs (Symphalangus syndactylus): use of gestures and facial expressions (2003) (95)
Chimpanzees coordinate in a negotiation game (2009) (94)
Great apes distinguish true from false beliefs in an interactive helping task (2017) (94)
Object permanence and relational words: a lexical training study (1986) (93)
Culture and Cognitive Development (2000) (92)
Young Children See a Single Action and Infer a Social Norm (2016) (92)
A New Look at Children’s Prosocial Motivation (2013) (92)
Apes' and children's understanding of cooperative and competitive motives in a communicative situation. (2006) (92)
Dogs (Canis familiaris), but Not Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Understand Imperative Pointing (2012) (92)
Chimpanzees know that others make inferences (2011) (92)
The Cultural Ecology of Young Children’s Interactions With Objects and Artifacts (1999) (92)
The distributed learning effect for children's acquisition of an abstract grammatical construction (2006) (90)
A new false belief test for 36-month-olds (2002) (88)
Joint Attention and Conversation in Mother‐Infant‐Sibling Triads (1991) (88)
Primate vocal and gestural communication (2002) (88)
Differences in the early cognitive development of children and great apes. (2014) (88)
Children's speech revisions for a familiar and an unfamiliar adult. (1984) (87)
Children's understanding of the agent-patient relations in the transitive construction: Cross-linguistic comparisons between Cantonese, German, and English (2009) (86)
“This way!”, “No! That way!”—3-year olds know that two people can have mutually incompatible desires (2007) (86)
What Chimpanzees Know about Seeing, Revisited: An Explanation of the Third Kind (2005) (86)
Beyond formalities: The case of language acquisition (2005) (86)
Emulation learning and cultural learning (1998) (85)
Two- and Four-Year-Olds Learn to Adapt Referring Expressions to Context: Effects of Distracters and Feedback on Referential Communication (2012) (85)
The moral psychology of obligation (2019) (84)
Coordination of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in a Stag Hunt Game (2011) (84)
Restorative Justice in Children (2015) (83)
Do chimpanzees know what others see – or only what they are looking at? (2006) (82)
Young children's understanding of the context-relativity of normative rules in conventional games. (2009) (81)
The ontogeny of cultural learning. (2016) (80)
Factors affecting young children's use of pronouns as referring expressions. (2000) (80)
Can domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) use referential emotional expressions to locate hidden food? (2012) (80)
What's in a manner of speaking? Children's sensitivity to partner-specific referential precedents. (2010) (80)
Rational tool use and tool choice in human infants and great apes. (2008) (79)
On tools and toys: how children learn to act on and pretend with 'virgin objects'. (2005) (79)
What preschool children do and do not do with ungrammatical word orders (2001) (78)
The social learning of tool use by orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) (1994) (78)
Chimpanzee helping in collaborative and noncollaborative contexts (2010) (78)
Uniquely primate, uniquely human (1998) (78)
Young children's creation and transmission of social norms (2014) (77)
3-year-old children make relevance inferences in indirect verbal communication. (2013) (77)
Bigger knows better: young children selectively learn rule games from adults rather than from peers. (2010) (76)
Gestural communication of apes (2005) (76)
The emotional reactivity hypothesis and cognitive evolution Reply to Miklósi and Topál (2005) (76)
A Usage-Based Approach to Child Language Acquisition (2000) (76)
Cultural Learning Redux. (2016) (75)
The effects of collaboration and minimal-group membership on children's prosocial behavior, liking, affiliation, and trust. (2015) (75)
The key is social cognition. (2003) (74)
Two-year-olds grasp the intentional structure of pretense acts. (2006) (74)
Meritocratic sharing is based on collaboration in 3-year-olds. (2014) (74)
Social cognition of monkeys and apes (1994) (73)
Word Learning: A Window on Early Pragmatic Understanding (1998) (72)
The gap is social: Human shared intentionality and culture (2010) (72)
Becoming Human (2019) (72)
Domestic Dogs Use Contextual Information and Tone of Voice when following a Human Pointing Gesture (2011) (72)
On the Different Origins of Symbols and Grammar (2003) (72)
Intention reading and imitative learning (2005) (71)
Young children's sensitivity to listener knowledge and perceptual context in choosing referring expressions (2005) (71)
The Gestural Communication of Apes and Monkeys (2020) (71)
Young German children's early syntactic competence: a preferential looking study. (2008) (69)
Taking versus confronting visual perspectives in preschool children. (2013) (68)
The Relationship Between Infant Holdout and Gives, and Pointing (2015) (67)
Comparing different accounts of inversion errors in children's non-subject wh-questions: ‘What experimental data can tell us?’ (2006) (67)
An experimental study of nettle feeding in captive gorillas (2008) (66)
The Early Emergence of Guilt-Motivated Prosocial Behavior. (2016) (66)
A comparison of temperament in nonhuman apes and human infants. (2011) (66)
Eighteen-month-olds understand false beliefs in an unexpected-contents task. (2014) (65)
Pragmatics of Sibling Speech to One Year Olds. (1985) (65)
The Ontogeny of Social Ontology: Steps to Shared Intentionality and Status Functions (2007) (64)
"I know you don't know I know…" children use second-order false-belief reasoning for peer coordination. (2015) (63)
Infants' visual and auditory communication when a partner is or is not visually attending. (2008) (63)
In Search of the Uniquely Human (2005) (62)
Do great apes use emotional expressions to infer desires? (2009) (62)
The Role of Ontogeny in the Evolution of Human Cooperation (2017) (62)
Understanding of speaker certainty and false-belief reasoning: a comparison of Japanese and German preschoolers. (2009) (62)
Development of word order in German complement-clause constructions: Effects of input frequencies, lexical items, and discourse function (2010) (61)
The goggles experiment: can chimpanzees use self-experience to infer what a competitor can see? (2015) (61)
What kind of evidence could refute the UG hypothesis (2007) (61)
Communication about absent entities in great apes and human infants (2015) (61)
A tale of two theories: response to Fisher (2002) (60)
Chimpanzees' (Pan troglodytes) strategic helping in a collaborative task (2013) (60)
Domestic dogs comprehend human communication with iconic signs. (2009) (60)
Extrinsic rewards undermine altruistic tendencies in 20-month-olds (2014) (59)
Differences in Cognitive Processes Underlying the Collaborative Activities of Children and Chimpanzees. (2012) (59)
Reference: Intending that others jointly attend (1998) (59)
Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, prefer individual over collaborative strategies towards goals (2011) (59)
Assessing the validity of ape-human comparisons: a reply to Boesch (2007). (2008) (58)
Dogs steal in the dark (2013) (58)
Cooperation and Communication in the 2nd Year of Life (2007) (57)
One for You, One for Me (2016) (57)
Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) use a physical marker to locate hidden food (2005) (57)
The acquisition of German relative clauses: A case study* (2008) (57)
Thirty years of great ape gestures (2018) (57)
Eighteen-month-olds learn novel words through overhearing (2012) (56)
Acquiring the transitive construction in English: the role of animacy and pronouns (1998) (56)
Different social motives in the gestural communication of chimpanzees and human children. (2011) (55)
Young Children Want to See Others Get the Help They Need. (2016) (54)
Dogs, Canis familiaris, communicate with humans to request but not to inform (2011) (54)
How Children Turn Objects into Symbols : A Cultural Learning Account (2005) (54)
One child's early talk about possession (1998) (53)
Cultural Transmission (2001) (53)
Young children's coordination of gestural and linguistic reference (1984) (53)
Are Nouns Easier to Learn Than Verbs? Three Experimental Studies (2006) (53)
Young children sympathize less in response to unjustified emotional distress. (2013) (53)
Allocation of resources to collaborators and free-riders in 3-year-olds. (2013) (52)
Collaboration in young children. (2012) (52)
The Question of Chimpanzee Culture, plus Postscript (Chimpanzee Culture, 2009) (2009) (52)
Direct and indirect reputation formation in nonhuman great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens). (2013) (52)
Done wrong or said wrong? Young children understand the normative directions of fit of different speech acts (2009) (52)
Infants' Use of Shared Experience in Declarative Pointing. (2010) (52)
Lexical frequency and exemplar-based learning effects in language acquisition: evidence from sentential complements (2010) (52)
Preschoolers use common ground in their justificatory reasoning with peers. (2016) (51)
The perceived self: On the interpersonal origins of self-concept (1994) (51)
Linguistic Communication and Social Understanding (2005) (50)
Young children's responses to guilt displays. (2011) (50)
Primate cognition: introduction to the issue (2000) (50)
How 18- and 24-month-old peers divide resources among themselves. (2015) (50)
Understanding of human communicative motives in domestic dogs (2011) (50)
Two-year-olds' conversations with their mothers and preschool-aged siblings (1992) (49)
The attention-grammar interface: Eye-gaze cues structural choice in children and adults (2013) (49)
Young children understand and defend the entitlements of others. (2013) (49)
Graded representations in the acquisition of English and German transitive constructions (2008) (49)
Simple Mechanisms Can Explain Social Learning in Domestic Dogs (Canis familiaris) (2011) (49)
Cultural learning (1993) (49)
Goats' behaviour in a competitive food paradigm: Evidence for perspective taking? (2006) (48)
Training 2;6-year-olds to produce the transitive construction: the role of frequency, semantic similarity and shared syntactic distribution. (2004) (48)
The distributed learning effect for children’s acquisition of an abstract syntactic construction (2006) (48)
Young children's behavioral and emotional responses to different social norm violations. (2016) (47)
Learning through others (2004) (47)
Theft in an ultimatum game: chimpanzees and bonobos are insensitive to unfairness (2012) (46)
Cultural learning and learning culture. (2018) (46)
Young children's planning in a collaborative problem-solving task (2014) (46)
Reasoning during joint decision-making by preschool peers (2014) (46)
Young children understand multiple pretend identities in their object play. (2009) (45)
Social cognition before the revolution (1999) (45)
One-year-olds’ understanding of nonverbal gestures directed to a third person (2009) (45)
Prototype constructions in early language acquisition (2009) (45)
Dogs (Canis familiaris) Evaluate Humans on the Basis of Direct Experiences Only (2012) (45)
Communicative eye contact signals a commitment to cooperate for young children (2018) (44)
The Return of Constructions (1998) (44)
A New Change-of-Contents False Belief Test: Children and Chimpanzees Compared (2010) (44)
Joint attention to mental content and the social origin of reasoning (2019) (44)
Infants communicate in order to be understood. (2010) (44)
Methodological Challenges in the Study of Primate Cognition (2011) (44)
Evidence rebuts Chomsky's theory of language learning (2016) (43)
German-speaking children’s productivity with syntactic constructions and case morphology: Local cues act locally (2005) (43)
Five-year-olds understand fair as equal in a mini-ultimatum game. (2013) (43)
Does Sympathy Motivate Prosocial Behaviour in Great Apes? (2014) (43)
Young children's knowledge of the "determiner" and "adjective" categories. (2005) (42)
Children’s Sense of Fairness as Equal Respect (2019) (42)
Two-year-olds exclude novel objects as potential referents of novel words based on pragmatics (2009) (42)
Pronoun co-referencing errors: Challenges for generativist and usage-based accounts (2009) (42)
Introduction: The cognitive-functional perspective on language structure (1998) (42)
Universal grammar is dead (2009) (42)
Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) coordinate their actions in a problem-solving task (2013) (41)
The role of experience and discourse in children´s developing understanding of pretend play actions (2006) (41)
Do domestic dogs interpret pointing as a command? (2013) (41)
Children's norm enforcement in their interactions with peers. (2014) (41)
Young children, but not chimpanzees, are averse to disadvantageous and advantageous inequities. (2017) (41)
Intersubjectivity in early language learning and use (1998) (40)
Three-Year-Olds’ Understanding of the Consequences of Joint Commitments (2013) (40)
Children’s level of word knowledge predicts their exclusion of familiar objects as referents of novel words (2015) (40)
The specificity of reciprocity: Young children reciprocate more generously to those who intentionally benefit them. (2018) (40)
Procedural justice in children: Preschoolers accept unequal resource distributions if the procedure provides equal opportunities. (2015) (40)
Automatic evaluation of syntactic learners in typologically-different languages (2008) (40)
Novel paradigms to measure variability of behavior in early childhood: posture, gaze, and pupil dilation (2015) (40)
French children's use and correction of weird word orders: A constructivist account (2007) (39)
Social disappointment explains chimpanzees' behaviour in the inequity aversion task (2017) (39)
Great apes infer others’ goals based on context (2012) (39)
Young children's understanding of cultural common ground. (2013) (39)
Children Extend Both Words and Non-Verbal Actions to Novel Exemplars (2003) (38)
The gestural communication of apes (2007) (38)
Joint attention, cultural learning, and language acquisition: Implications for autism (2000) (38)
Acquiring syntax is not what you think (2000) (38)
Human behaviour: Share and share alike (2008) (37)
The Fulfillment of Others’ Needs Elevates Children’s Body Posture (2017) (37)
Concern for Group Reputation Increases Prosociality in Young Children (2018) (37)
Do dogs distinguish rational from irrational acts? (2011) (36)
Chimpanzees trust conspecifics to engage in low-cost reciprocity (2015) (36)
"Frequent Frames" in German Child-Directed Speech: A Limited Cue to Grammatical Categories (2011) (36)
Young children create iconic gestures to inform others. (2014) (36)
Can chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) discriminate appearance from reality? (2009) (36)
21-Month-olds understand the cooperative logic of requests (2010) (35)
The early ontogeny of human cooperation and morality (2014) (35)
Young children's understanding of denial. (2014) (35)
Young children's sensitivity to new and given information when answering predicate-focus questions (2009) (35)
Non-verbal communication enables children’s coordination in a “Stag Hunt” game (2013) (35)
Particle placement in early child language: A multifactorial analysis (2005) (35)
Construction Grammar For Kids (2007) (34)
The New Psychology of Language (1998) (34)
Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, share food in the same way after collaborative and individual food acquisition (2011) (34)
Chimpanzees follow gaze direction geometrically. (1999) (34)
Differing views: Can chimpanzees do Level 2 perspective-taking? (2016) (34)
Bonobos, Pan paniscus, chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, and marmosets, Callithrix jacchus, prefer to feed alone (2013) (34)
The Reasons Young Children Give to Peers When Explaining Their Judgments of Moral and Conventional Rules (2017) (33)
Toddlers Help Anonymously (2017) (33)
Young children's comprehension of English SVO word order revisited: Testing the same children in act-out and intermodal preferential looking tasks (2010) (33)
Two-year-olds use primary sentence accent to learn new words* (2007) (33)
A test of the submentalizing hypothesis: Apes' performance in a false belief task inanimate control (2017) (32)
Young Children Show the Bystander Effect in Helping Situations (2015) (32)
Three-Year-Olds' Reactions to a Partner's Failure to Perform Her Role in a Joint Commitment. (2018) (32)
Children's Intrinsic Motivation to Provide Help Themselves After Accidentally Harming Others. (2016) (32)
Chimpanzees return favors at a personal cost (2017) (32)
Like Infant, Like Dog (2009) (31)
Young children use shared experience to interpret definite reference. (2015) (31)
How Polish children switch from one case to another when using novel nouns: Challenges for models of inflectional morphology (2011) (31)
Late Emergence of the First Possession Heuristic: Evidence From a Small-Scale Culture. (2015) (30)
The Role of Pronoun Frames in Early Comprehension of Transitive Constructions in English (2010) (30)
Preschoolers affect others' reputations through prosocial gossip. (2016) (30)
If They're So Good at Grammar, Then Why Don't They Talk? Hints From Apes' and Humans' Use of Gestures (2007) (30)
Comprehension of iconic gestures by chimpanzees and human children. (2016) (30)
Apes' use of iconic cues in the object-choice task (2006) (30)
Rapid learning of an abstract language-specific category: Polish children's acquisition of the instrumental construction (2008) (30)
Young Children Understand the Role of Agreement in Establishing Arbitrary Norms-But Unanimity Is Key. (2016) (29)
The adaptive origins of uniquely human sociality (2020) (29)
Modeling social norms increasingly influences costly sharing in middle childhood. (2018) (29)
Children Coordinate in a Recurrent Social Dilemma by Taking Turns and Along Dominance Asymmetries (2017) (29)
Chapter 22 - Understanding the Self as Social Agent (1995) (29)
Two hypotheses about primate cognition (2000) (29)
First steps in a usage based theory of language acquisition. (2000) (29)
Differences in the nonverbal requests of great apes and human infants. (2014) (29)
The preference for scarcity: A developmental and comparative perspective (2018) (29)
Two- and 3-year-olds integrate linguistic and pedagogical cues in guiding inductive generalization and exploration. (2016) (29)
Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution (1994) (28)
Culture, biology and human ontogeny (1993) (28)
18-month-olds comprehend indirect communicative acts (2015) (28)
Chimpanzees strategically manipulate what others can see (2015) (28)
Domestic dogs and puppies can use human voice direction referentially (2014) (28)
How chimpanzees solve collective action problems (2012) (28)
The Gestural Repertoire of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) (2007) (27)
The Normative Turn in Early Moral Development (2018) (27)
The role of roles in uniquely human cognition and sociality (2020) (27)
Side matters: potential mechanisms underlying dogs' performance in a social eavesdropping paradigm (2014) (27)
Three-year-olds understand appearance and reality--just not about the same object at the same time. (2012) (27)
Introduction: Some surprises for Psychologists (2003) (27)
Learning to produce passive utterances through discourse (1998) (26)
Early birds: Metaphor understanding in 3-year-olds (2020) (26)
Young Children’s Reputational Strategies in a Peer Group Context (2019) (26)
Ape Gestures and the Origins of Language (2007) (26)
Conceptual Development and the Child's Early Words for Events, Objects, and Persons (2014) (26)
Uniquely human self-control begins at school age. (2015) (26)
Young children mostly keep, and expect others to keep, their promises. (2017) (25)
The emergence of grammar in early child language (2002) (25)
What Is a Group? Young Children’s Perceptions of Different Types of Groups and Group Entitativity (2016) (25)
Two-year-old children differentiate test questions from genuine questions* (2011) (25)
Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, recognize successful actions, but fail to imitate them (2013) (25)
Young children (sometimes) do the right thing even when their peers do not (2016) (25)
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) instrumentally help but do not communicate in a mutualistic cooperative task. (2014) (25)
Chimpanzees do not take into account what others can hear in a competitive situation (2007) (25)
The role of past interactions in great apes' communication about absent entities. (2016) (24)
Limitations to the cultural ratchet effect in young children. (2014) (24)
Children use salience to solve coordination problems. (2015) (24)
Prosodic stress on a word directs 24-month-olds’ attention to a contextually new referent (2010) (24)
German children use prosody to identify participant roles in transitive sentences (2011) (24)
Productivity of Noun Slots in Verb Frames (2015) (24)
The acquisition of the active transitive construction in English: A detailed case study (2012) (23)
Introduction to the Classic Edition (2020) (23)
Two-year-old children but not domestic dogs understand communicative intentions without language, gestures, or gaze. (2015) (23)
German children's productivity with simple transitive and complement-clause constructions: Testing the effects of frequency and variability (2011) (22)
Children's understanding of first- and third-person perspectives in complement clauses and false-belief tasks. (2016) (22)
Children's meta-talk in their collaborative decision making with peers. (2018) (22)
The 37th Sir Frederick Bartlett Lecture (2012) (22)
The relation between young children's physiological arousal and their motivation to help others (2017) (22)
Children’s Developing Understanding of the Conventionality of Rules (2017) (22)
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) coordinate by communicating in a collaborative problem-solving task (2019) (22)
Social Engagement Leads 2-Year-Olds to Overestimate Others' Knowledge. (2011) (22)
Production and Comprehension of Gestures between Orang-Utans (Pongo pygmaeus) in a Referential Communication Game (2015) (21)
Five questions for any theory of word learning (2000) (21)
Studying extant species to model our past. (2010) (21)
Subject and object omission in children's early transitive constructions: A discourse-pragmatic approach (2014) (21)
The Early Ontogeny of Reason Giving (2020) (21)
Can We Dissociate Contingency Learning from Social Learning in Word Acquisition by 24-Month-Olds? (2012) (21)
How two word-trained dogs integrate pointing and naming (2012) (21)
Semantics of the Transitive Construction: Prototype Effects and Developmental Comparisons (2012) (21)
Children engage in competitive altruism. (2019) (21)
How selective are 3-year-olds in imitating novel linguistic material? (2013) (21)
Piagetian and Vygotskian Approaches to Language Acquisition (1996) (21)
Three-year-olds understand communicative intentions without language, gestures, or gaze (2013) (21)
Syntax or semantics? Response to Lidz et al. (2004) (21)
Introduction: Intentional Communication in Nonhuman Primates (2007) (21)
Cultural Transmission: Cultural Transmission: A View from Chimpanzees and Human Infants (2008) (21)
Preschoolers are sensitive to free riding in a public goods game (2014) (20)
Could we please lose the mapping metaphor, please? (2001) (20)
Why Complement Clauses Do Not Include a That-Complementizer in Early Child Language (1999) (20)
Children's reasoning with peers in cooperative and competitive contexts (2018) (20)
Body orientation and face orientation: two factors controlling apes' behavior from humans. (2004) (20)
36-month-olds conceal visual and auditory information from others. (2010) (20)
Preschoolers understand the normativity of cooperatively structured competition. (2016) (20)
Preschoolers' understanding of the role of communication and cooperation in establishing property rights. (2015) (20)
Chimpanzees coordinate in a snowdrift game (2016) (20)
The effects of being watched on resource acquisition in chimpanzees and human children (2015) (20)
The development of intention-based sociomoral judgment and distribution behavior from a third-party stance. (2018) (20)
Social cognition and the evolution of culture (1998) (19)
Children's developing metaethical judgments. (2017) (19)
Cognitive Linguistics and First Language Acquisition (2010) (19)
Taking Turns or Not? Children's Approach to Limited Resource Problems in Three Different Cultures. (2016) (19)
The role of perceptual availability and discourse context in young children's question answering* (2010) (19)
Toddlers Help a Peer. (2017) (19)
Language in a New Key. (2016) (19)
The Developmental and Evolutionary Origins of Human Helping and Sharing (2015) (19)
The social-cognitive basis of infants’ reference to absent entities (2018) (19)
One for You, one for Me: Humans’ Unique Turn-Taking Skills (2016) (18)
Children's reasoning with peers and parents about moral dilemmas. (2019) (18)
Chimpanzees, bonobos and children successfully coordinate in conflict situations (2017) (18)
Natural reference: A phylo- and ontogenetic perspective on the comprehension of iconic gestures and vocalizations. (2018) (18)
The development of relative constructions in early child speech. (2001) (18)
One-Year-Old Infants Follow Others’ Voice Direction (2012) (18)
3- and 5-Year-Old Children’s Adherence to Explicit and Implicit Joint Commitments (2019) (18)
German–English-speaking children's mixed NPs with ‘correct’ agreement* (2010) (18)
Chimpanzees predict that a competitor's preference will match their own (2013) (18)
Extrinsic Rewards Diminish Costly Sharing in 3-Year-Olds. (2016) (18)
Three-year-olds hide their communicative intentions in appropriate contexts. (2013) (18)
`I want hold Postman Pat': An investigation into the acquisition of infinitival marker `to' (2009) (18)
Familiar Verbs Are Not Always Easier Than Novel Verbs: How German Pre-School Children Comprehend Active and Passive Sentences (2014) (18)
Behavioral cues that great apes use to forage for hidden food (2007) (17)
Uniquely human cognition is a product of human culture (2005) (17)
Teaching versus enforcing game rules in preschoolers' peer interactions. (2015) (17)
Domestic dogs conceal auditory but not visual information from others (2013) (17)
Young Children’s Intonational Marking of New, Given and Contrastive Referents (2015) (17)
Eighteen-Month-Old Infants Correct Non-Conforming Actions by Others. (2019) (17)
Two- and 3-Year-Olds Know What Others Have and Have Not Heard (2014) (17)
Giving Is Nicer than Taking: Preschoolers Reciprocate Based on the Social Intentions of the Distributor (2016) (17)
What paradox? A response to Naigles (2003) (17)
From imitation to implementation: How two‐ and three‐year‐old children learn to enforce social norms (2017) (17)
Young children spontaneously recreate core properties of language in a new modality (2019) (17)
Children's ability to answer different types of questions. (2013) (17)
Can an ape understand a sentence? A review of language comprehension in ape and child by E.S. Savage-Rumbaugh et al (1994) (16)
The communicative contexts of grammatical aspect use in English. (2014) (16)
Do young children accept responsibility for the negative actions of ingroup members (2016) (16)
Visually attending to a video together facilitates great ape social closeness (2019) (16)
Chimpanzee responders still behave like rational maximizers (2013) (16)
Chimpanzees and children avoid mutual defection in a social dilemma (2019) (16)
The effect of previously learned words on the child's acquisition of words for similar referents (1988) (16)
Identifying partially schematic units in the code-mixing of an English and German speaking child (2018) (15)
What paradox? A response to Naigles (2002) (2003) (15)
Flexibility in the semantics and syntax of children's early verb use. (2009) (15)
The acquisition of complement clause constructions: A sentence repetition study. (2005) (15)
Young children create partner-specific referential pacts with peers. (2014) (15)
Missing Arguments and the Acquisition of Predicate Meanings (2014) (15)
Infants appreciate the social intention behind a pointing gesture: Commentary on "Children's understanding of communicative intentions in the middle of the second year of life" by T. Aureli, P. Perucchini and M. Genco (2009) (15)
Reasoning and thinking in nonhuman primates (2005) (15)
The Influence of Frequency and Semantic Similarity on How Children Learn Grammar (2010) (15)
All great ape species (Gorilla gorilla, Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Pongo abelii) and two-and-a-half-year-old children (Homo sapiens) discriminate appearance from reality. (2014) (15)
Preschoolers value those who sanction non-cooperators (2016) (15)
Children, chimpanzees, and bonobos adjust the visibility of their actions for cooperators and competitors (2017) (15)
Children aged 2 ; 1 use transitive syntax to make a semantic-role interpretation in a pointing task. (2011) (15)
Using Child Utterances to Evaluate Syntax Acquisition Algorithms (2006) (15)
The Child's Contribution to Culture: A Commentary on Toomela (1996) (14)
Comparing the Gestures of Apes and Monkeys (2007) (14)
Young Children's Ability to Produce Valid and Relevant Counter-Arguments. (2019) (14)
Why don't apes understand false beliefs? (2013) (14)
Joint Attention and Early Language Author ( s ) : (2007) (14)
Young children use pedagogical cues to modulate the strength of normative inferences. (2015) (14)
Things Are What They Do: Katherine Nelson's Functional Approach to Language and Cognition (2002) (14)
Do young children preferentially trust gossip or firsthand observation in choosing a collaborative partner (2017) (14)
Children, but not great apes, respect ownership. (2019) (13)
Experiments in the Real world (1991) (13)
Objects are analogous to words, not phonemes or grammatical categories (1991) (13)
German children's productivity with tense morphology: the Perfekt (present perfect) (2002) (13)
Shared intentionality, reason-giving and the evolution of human culture (2021) (13)
Some facts about primate (include human) communication and social learning (2002) (13)
Submentalizing Cannot Explain Belief-Based Action Anticipation in Apes (2017) (13)
Evidence for social referencing in young chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). (1986) (13)
Cooperation and Human Cognition (2011) (12)
Why be nice? Better not think about it (2012) (12)
German Children’s Use of Word Order and Case Marking to Interpret Simple and Complex Sentences: Testing Differences Between Constructions and Lexical Items (2015) (12)
The impact of choice on young children's prosocial motivation. (2017) (12)
Origins of Human Communication. Cambridge, MA (The MIT Press) 2008. (2008) (12)
Lexical Principles Can Be Extended to the Acquisition of Verbs (2014) (12)
Direct and Indirect Reputation Formation in Nonhuman Great Apes and Human Children (2012) (11)
The Pragmatics of Word Learning (1997) (11)
Two-year-olds use adults' but not peers' points. (2018) (11)
Where's the person? (1993) (11)
Young children's understanding of markedness in non-verbal communication* (2011) (11)
Pronouns and Point of View: Cognitive Principles of Coreference (2003) (11)
On the Moral Functions of Language (2021) (11)
Watching a video together creates social closeness between children and adults. (2019) (11)
Peer interaction in infant chimpanzees. (1990) (11)
THE CULTURAL ROOTS OF LANGUAGE (2012) (11)
Learning Novel Skills From Iconic Gestures: A Developmental and Evolutionary Perspective (2020) (11)
Precís of A Natural History of Human Thinking (2016) (11)
Great Apes and Human Development: A Personal History (2018) (11)
CHIMPANZEE SOCIAL COGNITION (1996) (10)
Two-year-olds but not domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) understand communicative intentions without language, gestures, or gaze. (2015) (10)
Introduction to special issue: ‘Life history and learning: how childhood, caregiving and old age shape cognition and culture in humans and other animals’ (2020) (10)
The goal of ape pointing (2018) (10)
Precís of a natural history of human morality (2018) (10)
Non-Egalitarian Allocations among Preschool Peers in a Face-to-Face Bargaining Task (2015) (9)
Syntactic Bootstrapping from Start to Finish with Special Reference to Down Syndrome (2014) (9)
Constructively combining languages : The use of code-mixing in German-English bilingual child language acquisition (2018) (9)
Young children’s moral judgments depend on the social relationship between agents (2021) (9)
Conforming to coordinate: children use majority information for peer coordination. (2015) (9)
Young children show positive emotions when seeing someone get the help they deserve (2020) (9)
Do Domestic Dogs Learn Words Based on Humans’ Referential Behaviour? (2014) (9)
Evolution of human cognition (2001) (9)
Cultural learning and cultural creation (2008) (9)
Introduction to the volume (2001) (9)
Cognition for Culture (2009) (9)
The ontogenetic origins of human cooperation (2007) (9)
Children's Selective Trust in Promises. (2019) (9)
Three- and 5-year-old children's understanding of how to dissolve a joint commitment. (2019) (8)
Bruner on language acquisition (2001) (8)
Why should I trust you? Investigating young children’s spontaneous mistrust in potential deceivers (2018) (8)
Children's respect for ownership across diverse societies. (2019) (8)
Differences in the Ability of Apes and Children to Instruct Others Using Gestures (2015) (8)
Young children are more willing to accept group decisions in which they have had a voice. (2018) (8)
Error patterns in young German children's wh-questions* (2012) (8)
Focusing and shifting attention in human children (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). (2015) (8)
Human children, but not great apes, become socially closer by sharing an experience in common ground. (2020) (8)
Infant physical and social cognition (2001) (8)
Discourse Particles and Belief Reasoning: The Case of German doch (2014) (8)
How chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) share the spoils with collaborators and bystanders (2019) (8)
Tongan Determiners and Semantic Composition (2005) (8)
Toddlers' intrinsic motivation to return help to their benefactor. (2019) (8)
Chimpanzees’ understanding of social leverage (2018) (8)
Processes Involved in the Initial Mapping of Verb Meanings (2014) (8)
Fair game for chimpanzees. (2008) (7)
Preschoolers refer to direct and indirect evidence in their collaborative reasoning. (2020) (7)
Children use rules to coordinate in a social dilemma. (2019) (7)
Great apes are sensitive to prior reliability of an informant in a gaze following task (2017) (7)
What did we learn from the ape language studies (2018) (7)
The social-cognitive bases of language development (2006) (7)
The Middle Step: Joint Intentionality as a Human-Unique Form of Second-Personal Engagement (2017) (7)
For Human Eyes Only (2007) (7)
Common knowledge that help is needed increases helping behavior in children. (2020) (7)
Postscript: chimpanzee culture (2009) (7)
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Children across societies enforce conventional norms but in culturally variable ways (2021) (6)
Correction: Does Sympathy Motivate Prosocial Behaviour in Great Apes? (2014) (6)
Young children share more under time pressure than after a delay (2021) (6)
Processes of communication in the origins of language (1991) (6)
The strategies used by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens) to solve a simple coordination problem. (2020) (6)
Author's response: On defining language: Replies to Shatz and Ninio (1992) (6)
Prosociality and morality in children and chimpanzees (2018) (6)
Cooperative activities in children with autism (2007) (6)
Young children's prosocial responses toward peers and adults in two social contexts. (2020) (6)
Baby Steps on the Road to Society: Shared Intentionality in the Second Year of Life. (2008) (6)
Chimpanzees help others with what they want; Children help them with what they need. (2019) (6)
The Development of the Liking Gap: Children Older Than 5 Years Think That Partners Evaluate Them Less Positively Than They Evaluate Their Partners (2021) (5)
Behavioral genetics of dog cognition : human-like social skills in dogs are heritable and derived (2006) (5)
Generalize or Personalize - Do Dogs Transfer an Acquired Rule to Novel Situations and Persons? (2014) (5)
The development of intent-based moral judgment and moral behavior in the context of indirect reciprocity: A cross-cultural study (2020) (5)
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Data on language input: Incomprehensible omission indeed! (1989) (5)
Children choose to reason with partners who submit to reason (2019) (5)
Evidence for a developmental shift in the motivation underlying helping in early childhood (2022) (5)
Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain: The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought (review) (2004) (5)
Gestural communication in gorillas (Gorilla g. gorilla) and bonobos (Pan paniscus) in captivity: A comparison (2002) (5)
Social cognition in the second year of life (2012) (5)
The effect of variation in sentence length on young children's attention and comprehension (1984) (5)
The gestural communication of apes and human infants (1996) (4)
Cultural Learning and Creation (2008) (4)
It's imitation, not mimesis (1993) (4)
The origins of human morality: How we learned to put our fate in one another’s hands (2018) (4)
Essential Readings in Language Development. (2001) (4)
And what about the Chinese? (1999) (4)
Young children conform more to norms than to preferences (2021) (4)
Human Cultural Cognition (2012) (4)
Grammar yes, generative grammar no (1990) (4)
Response to Commentators (1998) (4)
Human See, Human Do. (1997) (4)
‘Separating the wheat from the chaff’: A novel food processing technique in captive gorillas (Gorilla g. gorilla) (2001) (4)
The Ontogenetic Foundations of Epistemic Norms (2020) (4)
Chimpanzees know what others have seen but not what others believe (2008) (4)
Physical and social cognition in domestic dogs: A comparative study (2009) (4)
Fathers, Siblings, and the Bridge Hypothesis (2021) (4)
Toddlers Prefer Adults as Informants: 2- and 3-Year-Olds' Use of and Attention to Pointing Gestures From Peer and Adult Partners. (2021) (4)
How Are Humans Unique (2008) (4)
Chimpanzees' (Pan troglodytes) internal arousal remains elevated if they cannot themselves help a conspecific. (2020) (4)
"Direct and indirect reputation formation in nonhuman great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens)": Correction to Herrmann, Keupp, Hare, Vaish, and Tomasello (2012). (2013) (4)
Dueling Dualists (2014) (3)
Twelve- and 18-month-olds visual and auditory communication when a partner is or is not visually attending (2006) (3)
What kind of evidence could refute (2004) (3)
Towards a Quatitative Corpus-based Evaluation Measure for Syntactic Theories (2005) (3)
Young children’s understanding of justifications for breaking a promise (2021) (3)
How chimpanzees cooperate: If dominance is artificially constrained (2016) (3)
Report Children, but Not Chimpanzees, Prefer to Collaborate (2011) (3)
From Attention to Intention: 18-month-olds use Others Focus of Attention for Action Interpretation (2006) (3)
The role of emotions in cultural learning (1994) (3)
Mixed NPs in German-English and German-Russian bilingual children (2016) (3)
Can chimpanzees discriminate appearance from reality (2009) (3)
Flexibility in early verb use : Evidence from a multiple-n dairy study : Vi differences in early verb growth and use as a function of developmental period, child and verb (2009) (3)
Quantity-based judgments by orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) and bonobos (Pan paniscus) (2003) (3)
Learning the English passive construction (1999) (3)
Chapter 9. Language Development (2010) (3)
Effects of "we"-framing on young children's commitment, sharing, and helping. (2021) (3)
The Evolution of Agency (2022) (3)
Horizon The ultra-social animal (2014) (3)
One-year-olds understanding of nonverbally expressed communicative intentions directed to a third person (2006) (3)
The influence of intention and outcome on young children's reciprocal sharing. (2019) (2)
A lexically-based analysis of Child Directed Speech. (2001) (2)
The Development of Communication: From Social Interaction to Language (1995) (2)
Chapter 15 Some Facts about Primate ( including Human ) Communication and Social Learning (2)
Five-year-old children show cooperative preferences for faces with white sclera. (2022) (2)
Do 7-year-old children understand social leverage? (2020) (2)
Society need not be selfish (2009) (2)
Preschoolers consider (absent) others when choosing a distribution procedure (2019) (2)
Chimpanzees use observed temporal directionality to learn novel causal relations (2019) (2)
Flexibility in early verb use : Evidence from a multiple-n dairy study : Iii a general description of early verb growth and use (2009) (2)
Strategic decision-making by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), bonobos (Pan paniscus) and children in a Snowdrift-Game task (2016) (2)
Adult instruction limits children's flexibility in moral decision making. (2019) (2)
Apes : gesture communication (2006) (2)
Differences in the Acquisition of Early Verbs: Evidence from Diary Data from Sisters (2014) (2)
Is that for me (2014) (2)
Social cognition and metacognition in great apes: a theory (2022) (2)
Not waving but speaking (2002) (2)
Language and Social Understanding: Commentary on Nelson et al. (2003) (2)
Cross-cultural variation in children's consideration of merit when sharing amongst Peers (2013) (2)
The role of frequency and distributional regularity in the acquisition of word order. (2004) (2)
Chimpanzees monopolize and children take turns in a limited resource problem (2019) (2)
The coordination of attention and action in great apes and humans (2022) (2)
An “expressive” infant's communication development (1984) (2)
Developmental Psychology Infants Communicate in Order to Be Understood (2010) (1)
Children's consideration of collaboration and merit when making sharing decisions in private. (2022) (1)
Understanding of intentional versus accidental actions in 14- to 18-month-old infants (1996) (1)
Jerome Seymour Bruner [1915–2016]* (2016) (1)
The cognition hypothesis one last time. (1993) (1)
The Development of Reference from Two to Four Years (2009) (1)
Author ' s personal copy Varieties of altruism in children and chimpanzees (2009) (1)
PB-007 Focusing and shifting attention in human children and chimpanzees (2015) (1)
Phylogeny, History, and Ontogeny of Human Cognition@@@The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (2001) (1)
Coordination strategies of chimpanzees and children in a prisoner's dilemma (2018) (1)
Collaborative reasoning in the context of group competition. (2021) (1)
Thirty Years of Research on Language, Cognition, and Development: The Legacy of Elizabeth Bates (2005) (1)
Analogical mapping in construction learning (2012) (1)
Response The emotional reactivity hypothesis and cognitive evolution Reply to Miklósi and (1)
Flexibility in early verb use : evidence from a multiple-n dairy study : Ii presenting the dairy method (2009) (1)
Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) develop a successful communicative strategy to collaborate 1 2 3 4 (2019) (1)
Chapter 12 Usage-based linguistics (2006) (1)
Response to: Rethinking Human Development and the Shared Intentionality Hypothesis (2020) (1)
Disagreement, justification, and equitable moral judgments: A brief training study. (2022) (1)
And what about the Chinese? BBS-Commentary on Harald Clahsen "Lexical Entries and Rules of Language". (1999) (1)
How children avoid overgeneralization errors when acquiring transitive and intransitive verbs (1998) (1)
Great apes and human children rationally monitor their decisions (2022) (1)
The happy tendency to share resources equitably — at least with members of one's own social group — is a central and unique feature of human social life. It emerges, it seems, in middle childhood. (2008) (1)
Communicating Without Conventions (2021) (1)
The development of coordination via joint expectations for shared benefits. (2020) (1)
Why the left hand? (1987) (1)
How to Compare Across Species (2016) (1)
The many faces of obligation (2020) (1)
Inequity Aversion in Great Apes (2008) (1)
The psychological mechanisms underlying reciprocal prosociality in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). (2020) (1)
Evolutionäre Anthropologie: Kooperation im Wir-Modus (2015) (0)
Knowledge-by-acquaintance before propositional knowledge/belief (2021) (0)
referentiallydogs and puppies can use human voice direction (2014) (0)
Part II From Intentions to Institutions : Development and Evolution (2007) (0)
First verbs: The development of T's verb lexicon (1992) (0)
APE GESTURES AND HUMAN LANGUAGE (2006) (0)
How two word-trained dogs integrate pointing and naming (2012) (0)
Girls, not boys, are strong reciprocators in one-shot, sequential, and costly interactions (2019) (0)
Dogs steal in the dark (2012) (0)
More about Eve. (1993) (0)
Contents Vol. 56, 2013 (2014) (0)
In Memoriam: Jerome Seymour Bruner [1915–2016] (2016) (0)
Young children’s intrinsic prosocial motivation is linked to others’ needs (2013) (0)
Just teasing! - Infants' and toddlers' understanding of teasing interactions and its effect on social bonding (2022) (0)
What is it like to be a chimpanzee? (2022) (0)
Ernst von Glasersfeld: Some “Partial Memories” (2011) (0)
The sources of normativity in ontogeny childrens spontaneous protest against violations of game rules (2006) (0)
Response to: Rethinking Human Development and the Shared Intentionality Hypothesis (2020) (0)
Do chimpanzees use human social-communicative cues? (2005) (0)
The Role of Ontogeny in the Evolution of Human Cooperation (2017) (0)
Young children's use of nouns in pre-verbal position (2002) (0)
Domestic dogs conceal auditory but not visual information from others (2012) (0)
insensitive to unfairness Theft in an ultimatum game: chimpanzees and bonobos are (2013) (0)
Great apes infer others’ goals based on context (2012) (0)
Do great apes benefit from a demonstrator in a simple social learning task (2003) (0)
understanding intentions Examining correlates of cooperation in autism : Imitation, joint attention, and (2009) (0)
Clearly nice, clearly selfish: Chimpanzees reciprocate unambiguous signals of pro- and anti-social dispositions (2016) (0)
Communicative Intentions in the Mind/Brain (2013) (0)
Infants' Word Learning Through Overhearing (2011) (0)
Early Knowledge of noun slots (2002) (0)
The determiner category: An experimental study of productivity in young chidren's speech (2001) (0)
5. Human Thinking as Cooperation (2016) (0)
The Garden Path Technique (2002) (0)
The development of T's grammar (1992) (0)
" " SIZE HEIGHT " 240 " WIDTH " 160 " VOFFSET " 2 " > the UG hypothesis ? Commentary on Wunderlich (2004) (0)
Commentary on Philip Pettit’s The Birth of Ethics (2018) (0)
The ontogenetic ritualization of bonobo gestures (2013) (0)
The effects of interdependence and work effort on children's generosity towards co-working (2013) (0)
Vygotsky as Therapist. (1995) (0)
Grammar The Influence of Frequency and Semantic Similarity on How Children (2010) (0)
A gendered-effect in children’s direct and in-direct reciprocal behaviors (2016) (0)
The origin of human temperament: Differences in the response to novelty among great apes and human children (2009) (0)
Conventions are shared (commentary on Milikan, Language: A biological model) (2006) (0)
The Open University ’ s repository of research publications and other research outputs Prototype constructions in early language acquisition (2013) (0)
Chimpanzees monopolize and children take turns in a limited resource problem (2019) (0)
State of the Evidence for Majority-Biased Transmission and Frequency-Biased Transmission in Chimpanzees , Human Children and Orangutans (2017) (0)
Cognitive ethology comes of age (1992) (0)
‘ Ratcheting ’ up the scalae naturae ? (2011) (0)
Acknowledgment (2003) (0)
Do domestic dogs interpret pointing as a command? (2012) (0)
Respect Defended (2019) (0)
Who Can Be in a Group? 3- to 5-Year-Old Children Construe Realistic Social Groups Through Mutual Intentionality (2021) (0)
4. Collective Intentionality (2016) (0)
Origins of Mindreading Abilities in Children and Monkeys (2005) (0)
Chimpanzees strategically manipulate what others can see (2015) (0)
Cultural Learning Redux Michael Tomasello (2016) (0)
Response to commentators on ‘Uniquely primate, uniquely human’ (1998) (0)
Young children s motivation to share earned resources with peers (2016) (0)
Rational Imitation In Infants And Apes (2006) (0)
Book Reviews (1951) (0)
Title The preference for scarcity : A developmental and comparative perspective (2018) (0)
Stage 6 object permanence in chimpanzees, orangutans, and 18-month-old human children (1996) (0)
Terms of use : Click here Reference and attitude in infant pointing (2006) (0)
(Eds.). Life history and learning: How childhood, caregiving and old age shape cognition and culture in humans and other animals [spec. iss.] (2020) (0)
Data for: Modeling social norms increasingly influences costly sharing in middle childhood (2018) (0)
Toddlers prefer adults as informants: Two- and three-year- olds’ use of and attention to pointing gestures from peer and adult partners 1 (2021) (0)
infinitival markerto' `I want hold Postman Pat': An investigation into the acquisition of (2010) (0)
Open Research Online Prototype constructions in early language acquisition (2022) (0)
What motivates young children’s helping behavior? (2013) (0)
First verbs: Introduction (1992) (0)
Girls, but not boys, reciprocate in a self-defeating task (2016) (0)
Differing views: Can chimpanzees do Level 2 perspective-taking? (2016) (0)
Figure S1 from Visually attending to a video together facilitates great ape social closeness (2019) (0)
The determiner category: Productivity in children's speech (2001) (0)
Supplementary material from "Social disappointment explains chimpanzees' behaviour in the inequity aversion task" (2017) (0)
First verbs: Activity verbs and sentences (1992) (0)
Do two-year-old children display pragmatic flexibility? (2013) (0)
Language and Representation. (1997) (0)
DOGS NEED EMBODIED DIRECTIONS: CHILDREN BUT NOT DOGS POSSESS SKILLS NEEDED FOR COMMUNICATING WITH ABSENT INTERLOCUTORS (2014) (0)
What Animal Cognition Tells Us About Human Cognition (2019) (0)
Building Language from the Ground Up (2006) (0)
How fairness and dominance guide young children's bargaining decisions. (2022) (0)
First verbs: In the beginning was the verb (1992) (0)
First verbs: Change of state verbs and sentences (1992) (0)
Being intentional and understanding the intentions of others (1996) (0)
Book Reviews (2007) (0)
Children, chimpanzees, and bonobos adjust the visibility of their actions for cooperators and competitors (2017) (0)
Comparative Cognition 2 – Spatial and Social Knowledge and Reasoning More Additional References (not Normally for Further Reading) If Presented with Sample Mm, Choose 'mm' Not 'no' (0)
Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) help conspecifics to obtain food (2014) (0)
Structure-Mapping: Twenty Years After (2003) (0)
First verbs: Language acquisition as cultural learning (1992) (0)
Hands-On Optics (HOO): making an impact with light (2003) (0)
Young children understand norms as socially constructed – if they have done the constructing (2016) (0)
Other grammatical structures (1992) (0)
Scarcity and value attribution in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) (2015) (0)
Chimpanzees are sensitive to temporal directionality in causal sequences (2018) (0)
First verbs: Methods and an introduction to T's language (1992) (0)
Apes reciprocate food positively and negatively (2023) (0)
Do young children trust gossip or their own observations (2016) (0)
Do chimpanzees distinguish between collaborators and non-collaborators after food acquisition? (2015) (0)
Can domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) use referential emotional expressions to locate hidden food? (2012) (0)
Young children judge defection less negatively when there’s a good justification (2022) (0)
Infants understanding of what others have and have not heard (2006) (0)
Priming or practice? Frequency or reverse frequency effects in how English children comprehend full passives. (2010) (0)
Running head: LEARNING FROM GESTURE IN CHILDREN AND APES 1 Learning novel skills from iconic gestures: A developmental and evolutionary perspective (2020) (0)
Flexibility in early verb use : Evidence from a multiple-n dairy study : Iv pragmatic and semantic flexibility in early verb use (2009) (0)
Young children manage others' reputations through prosocial gossip (2016) (0)
Thirty years of great ape gestures (2018) (0)
2. Individual Intentionality (2016) (0)
First verbs: Dedication (1992) (0)
Three-year-olds understand that an object can have different statuses in different contexts (2006) (0)
Early lexical development. Esther Dromi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xii + 208. (1990) (0)
Out-group 'love' and in-group 'indifference': Group identification underlay children’s group-biased behavior (2016) (0)
Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny Michael Tomasello. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019 pp. 392. (2022) (0)
Flexibility in early verb use : Evidence from a multiple-n dairy study : Vii general discussion (2009) (0)
Punishment (advance online) (2017) (0)
FAST-TRACK REPORT Pointing out new news, old news, and absent referents at 12 months of age (2007) (0)
Language and Gesture Evolution (2013) (0)
Flexibility in early verb use : Evidence from a multiple-n dairy study : V productivity and grammatical flexibility in early verb use (2009) (0)
The effects of being watched on resource acquisition in chimpanzees and human children (2015) (0)
The primacy of pragmatics over lexical knowledge in young children's reference resolution (2015) (0)
Response to "fair game for chimpanzees" (2008) (0)
9. Social Cognition (2005) (0)
Well-fed organisms still need feedback (1988) (0)
Norms Require Not Just Technical Skill and Social Learning, but Real Cooperation (2021) (0)
Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) coordinate their actions in a problem-solving task (2012) (0)
Supplementary material from "Visually attending to a video together facilitates great ape social closeness" (2019) (0)
1. The Shared Intentionality Hypothesis (2016) (0)
UNDERSTANDING OF INTENTIONS, SHARED INTENTIONS: THE ORIGINS OF CULTURAL THINKING (2007) (0)
Genealogy of collective intentionality: Max Scheler and (2021) (0)
FAST-TRACK REPORT Enculturated chimpanzees imitate rationally (2007) (0)
3. Joint Intentionality (2016) (0)
Species differences in the rate of cognitive ontogeny among humans, chimpanzees, and bonobos (2011) (0)
Data for: Watching a video together creates social Closeness (2019) (0)
Is Helping Free of Charge? Testing the Helpfulness of Human Children and Chimpanzees (2006) (0)
Cognition as cause (1989) (0)

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