Publications

Articles - Hominid social cognition

ButtelmanButtelmann, D. (2005)
Mit den Augen eines Kindes (With a child’s eyes)
Leipziger Volkszeitung Extra (Zoo live), 2

Buttelmann, D. (2006)
Alltag eines Forschers bei den Menschenaffen (A primate researcher’s
everyday life)
Leipziger Volkszeitung Extra (Zoo live), 1

Buttelmann, D., Carpenter, M., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2007). Enculturated chimpanzees imitate rationally. Developmental Science, 10 (4), F31–F38

Buttelmann, D., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2008). Behavioral cues that great apes use to forage for hidden food. Animal Cognition, 11, 117-128.

Buttelmann, D. (2008). Understanding Different Components in Intentional Action - How Understanding Others’ Mental States Helps to Learn From Others and Predict Their Behaviour. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University of Leipzig. [pdf]

Buttelmann, D., Carpenter, M., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2008). Rational tool use and tool choice in human infants and great apes. Child Development, 79 (3), 609 – 626.

Buttelmann, D., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Do great apes use emotional expressions to infer desires? Developmental Science. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00802.x

Buttelmann, D., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Eighteen-month-old infants show false belief understanding in an active helping paradigm. Cognition. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.05.006.

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Articles - Dogs

Riedel, J., Buttelmann, D., Call, J. & Tomasello M. (2006)
Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) use a physical marker to locate hidden food
Animal Cognition, 9 (1), 27-35





Selected conference presentations

Buttelmann, D., Carpenter, M., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2006)
Rational imitation of tool choice in human infants and great apes
Poster presented at the International Conference of Infant Studies, Kyoto, Japan

Buttelmann, D., Carpenter, M., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2006)
Rationales Imitatieren bei Kleinkindern und Menschenaffen
Poster presented at the 45th Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Nürnberg, Germany

Buttelmann, D., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2007).
Great apes use emotional expressions to infer desires
Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Boston, MA, USA

Buttelmann, D., Carpenter, M., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2007)
Rational Imitation in Human Infants, Mother-Reared Apes, and Enculturated Chimpanzees
Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Boston, MA, USA

Buttelmann, D., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2007)
Great apes’ referential use of emotional expressions
Poster presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, “Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience”, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Buttelmann, D., Carpenter, M., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2008)
To go or not to go: Chimpanzees’ understanding of a human’s goals.
Poster presented at the XXIX International Congress of Psychology (ICP), Berlin, Germany

Buttelmann, D., Carpenter, M., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2008)
Great Apes Attribute Different Goals To The Same Action Depending On The Situational Context.
Poster presented at the XXII Congress of the International Primatological Society (IPS), Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Buttelmann, D., Carpenter, M., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2008)
Does a Model’s Observed Reliability Influence Infants’ Imitative Behaviour?
Talk presented at the International Conference of Infant Studies (ICIS), Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Buttelmann, D., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2009).
Sixteen-Month-Olds Show False Belief Understanding in an Active Helping Paradigm.
Talk presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Denver, CO, USA

Buttelmann, D. (2009)
Whom to trust? Detecting a person’s reliability in human infants and great apes.
Talk presented at the Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, B.C., CA