Working Memory: A Cognitive Limit to Non-Human Primate Recursive Thinking Prior to Hominid Evolution
In this paper I explore the possibility that recursion is not part of the cognitive repertoire of non-human primates such as chimpanzees due to limited working memory capacity. Multiple lines of data, from nut cracking to the velocity and duration of cognitive development, imply that chimpanzees hav...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2008-10-01
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| Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/147470490800600413 |