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Article in Science advances, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Chimpanzees attribute agency to virtual animals, but not to self-propelled shapes.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2026Article
- Designing research interfaces for non-human minds: a biocentric design approach for animal cognition research.Animal cognition · 2026Review
- Divergent neural representations of space and task between physical and virtual navigation in macaques.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Multidimensional performance trade-offs in bipedal standing of common chimpanzees and implications for human bipedal evolution.iScience · 2025Article
- The Animal-AI Environment: A virtual laboratory for comparative cognition and artificial intelligence research.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
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- Wild chimpanzees remember and revisit concealed, underground army ant nest locations throughout multiple years.Communications biology · 2024Article
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- Tool mastering today - an interdisciplinary perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Naturalistic neuroscience and virtual reality.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2022Review
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Abstract
Almost all animals navigate their environment to find food, shelter, and mates. Spatial cognition of nonhuman primates in large-scale environments is notoriously difficult to study. Field research is ecologically valid, but controlling confounding variables can be difficult. Captive research enables experimental control, but space restrictions can limit generalizability. Virtual reality technology combines the best of both worlds by creating large-scale, controllable environments. We presented six chimpanzees with a seminaturalistic virtual environment, using a custom touch screen application. The chimpanzees exhibited signature behaviors reminiscent of real-life navigation: They learned to approach a landmark associated with the presence of fruit, improving efficiency over time; they located this landmark from novel starting locations and approached a different landmark when necessary. We conclude that virtual environments can allow for standardized testing with higher ecological validity than traditional tests in captivity and harbor great potential to contribute to longstanding questions in primate navigation, e.g., the use of landmarks, Euclidean maps, or spatial frames of reference.
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