Developmental Psychology

Chimpanzees Would Cook if Given the Chance, Research Says (New York Times)

August 14, 2015

Work by Associate Professor Felix Warneken on the cognitive abilities of chimpanzees, which might extend to their understanding of cooking, is reviewed in the New York Times.

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Jesse Snedeker

Professor of Psychology
Affiliate of the Department of Linguistics

My laboratory explores many facets of language development, comprehension, production and representation. We study typically developing children (from...

Susan E. Carey

Professor (Emeritus)

The human conceptual repertoire poses a formidable challenge to the cognitive sciences. Humans are the only species who can ponder orders of infinity, the...

Elizabeth S. Spelke

Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology

Spelke’s laboratory focuses on the sources of uniquely human cognitive capacities, especially young children’s prodigious capacities for fast and flexible...

Steven Pinker

Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology

Steven Pinker is an experimental cognitive psychologist and a popular writer on language, mind, and human nature. A native of Montreal, he earned his...

Department of Psychology

Developmental Psychology

Chimpanzees Would Cook if Given the Chance, Research Says (New York Times)

Jesse Snedeker

Susan E. Carey

Elizabeth S. Spelke

Steven Pinker

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