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In Nonhuman Primates

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Object permanence in monkeys and apes; Primate object permanence

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Cognitive skills related to the understanding of an unseen object’s continued existence in nonhuman primates.

Introduction

Object permanence is the understanding that an object does not cease to exist just because it can no longer be directly perceived. This is a fundamental concept studied in the field of developmental psychology, the subfield of psychology that addresses the development of infants’ and children’s social and mental capacities. There is not yet scientific consensus on when the understanding of object permanence emerges in human development. Jean Piaget (1952) claimed that children progressively obtain object permanence during the first 2 years of life and that, in its final stages, object permanence extends beyond simply understanding that an unseen object continues to exist to being able to follow the trajectory of an object after its path becomes occluded. Early studies on object...

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  1. Lake Superior State University, Sault Ste. Marie, USA

    Andrew Franks

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  1. Andrew Franks
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  1. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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    Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford

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  1. University of South Carolina - Beaufort, Bluffton, SC, USA

    Carey Fitzgerald

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Franks, A. (2017). In Nonhuman Primates. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2374-1

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