Sentences with phrase «at than other primates»

It appears that relational learning is something that humans, even very young humans, are much better at than other primates.»

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But Laurie Santos, a cognitive psychologist at Yale University who has shown that rhesus macaques lack an understanding of false belief, thinks the «paper raises more questions than it provides answers,» especially because there have been «so many past results showing that chimpanzees and other primates lack this capacity.»

«What we found is that weaning time — which acts as a measure of the prematurity of the infants — was a much better predictor of primate's intelligence than any of other measures we looked at, including brain size, which is commonly correlated with intelligence,» said Piantadosi.

There's more to these findings than just lofty philosophical quandaries, though: If ravens really do possess a level of social cognition comparable to humans and other large primates, the birds might serve as better animal models to study this kind of behavior in the lab — which could help scientists understand why some humans are better at this kind of inference than others, and why some individuals can't manage it at all.