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Science 16 November 1973:
Vol. 182. no. 4113, pp. 731 - 733
DOI: 10.1126/science.182.4113.731
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Reading and Sentence Completion by a Chimpanzee (Pan)

Duane M. Rumbaugh 1, Timothy V. Gill 1, and E. C. von Glasersfeld 2

1 Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta 30303, and Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta 30322
2 Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens 30601

Four studies revealed that a 2frac12-year-old chimpanzee (Pan), after 6 months of computer-controlled language training, proficiently reads projected word-characters that constitute the beginnings of sentences and, in accordance with their meanings and serial order, either finishes the sentences for reward or rejects them.


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