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9813
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4172

Overview

E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh is affiliated with the Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary in the United States. The scientist's work is positioned within this institutional context, contributing to research on primates and their cognitive abilities.

No specific recent papers, co-authors, or publication venues are listed for this scientist. Likewise, there are no identified book publications or detailed fields of study available from the data provided.

The profile does not include information about main topics of work or subfields of study, which limits the ability to detail the precise research focus beyond the primary affiliation with primate learning and cognition.

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Best Publications

  • Language Comprehension in Ape and Child

    E S Savage-Rumbaugh;J Murphy;R A Sevcik;K E Brakke

  • Apes, Language, and the Human Mind

    Sue Savage-Rumbaugh;Stuart G. Shanker;Talbot J. Taylor

  • Ape Language: From Conditioned Response to Symbol

    E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

  • Imitative Learning of Actions on Objects by Children, Chimpanzees, and Enculturated Chimpanzees

    Michael Tomasello;Sue Savage-Rumbaugh;Ann Cale Kruger

  • Spontaneous Symbol Acquisition and Communicative Use By Pygmy Chimpanzees (Pan paniscus)

    Sue Savage-Rumbaugh;Kelly McDonald;Rose A. Sevcik;William D. Hopkins

  • Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind

    E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh;Roger Lewin

  • Pan the Tool-Maker: Investigations into the Stone Tool-Making and Tool-Using Capabilities of a Bonobo (Pan paniscus)

    Nicholas Toth;Kathy D. Schick;E.Sue Savage-Rumbaugh;Rose A. Sevcik

  • Ape Language

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  • Grammatical combination in Pan paniscus: Processes of learning and invention in the evolution and development of language.

    Patricia Marks Greenfield;E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

  • Reference: the linguistic essential

    ES Savage-Rumbaugh;DM Rumbaugh;DM Rumbaugh;ST Smith;J Lawson

  • Symbolic communication between two chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

    ES Savage-Rumbaugh;DM Rumbaugh;S Boysen

  • Linguistically Mediated Tool Use and Exchange by Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes)

    E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh;Duane M. Rumbaugh;Sally Boysen

  • Summation in the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes).

    Duane M. Rumbaugh;Sue Savage-Rumbaugh;Mark T. Hegel

  • Continuing Investigations into the Stone Tool-making and Tool-using Capabilities of a Bonobo (Pan paniscus)

    Kathy D. Schick;Nicholas Toth;Gary Garufi;E.Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

  • Verbal behavior at a procedural level in the chimpanzee.

    E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

  • Performance in a tool-using task by common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), bonobos (Pan paniscus), an orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), and capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

    Elisabetta Visalberghi;Dorothy M. Fragaszy;Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

  • Linguistically mediated tool use and exchange by chimpanzees

    E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh;Duane M. Rumbaugh;Sally Boysen

  • Can a chimpanzee make a statement

    E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh;James L. Pate;Janet Lawson;S. Tom Smith

  • Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta), video tasks, and implications for stimulus-response spatial contiguity.

    Rumbaugh Dm;Richardson Wk;Washburn Da;Savage-Rumbaugh Es

  • Ape Language: From Conditioned Response to Symbol

    Unknown

  • Linguistically Mediated Tool Use and Exchange by Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes)

    Unknown

  • Do apes use language

    E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh;Duane M. Rumbaugh;Sarah Boysen

  • Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) spatial problem solving with the use of mirrors and televised equivalents of mirrors.

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  • The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition.

    E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh;William Mintz Fields

  • Socio-sexual behavior in Pan paniscus and Pan troglodytes: A comparative study

    E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh;Beverly J. Wilkerson

  • Comparing communicative competence in child and chimp: the pragmatics of repetition*

    Patricia M. Greenfield;E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

  • Vocal Production by a Language-Competent Pan paniscus

    Jared P. Taglialatela;Sue Savage-Rumbaugh;Lauren A. Baker

  • Language learning in two species of apes.

    Sue Savage-Rumbaugh;Duane M. Rumbaugh;Kelly McDonald

  • Symbolization, language, and chimpanzees: a theoretical reevaluation based on initial language acquisition processes in four young Pan troglodytes.

    E.Sue Savage-Rumbaugh;E.Sue Savage-Rumbaugh;Duane M. Rumbaugh;Duane M. Rumbaugh

Frequent Co-Authors

Duane M. Rumbaugh
Duane M. Rumbaugh Georgia State University
Patricia M. Greenfield
Patricia M. Greenfield University of California, Los Angeles
William D. Hopkins
William D. Hopkins University of Wisconsin–Madison
Rose A. Sevcik
Rose A. Sevcik Georgia State University
Michael J. Beran
Michael J. Beran Georgia State University
David A. Washburn
David A. Washburn Georgia State University
Roger Bakeman
Roger Bakeman Georgia State University
Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello Duke University
Robin G. Morris
Robin G. Morris King's College London

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