Original Intelligence: The Architecture of the Human Mind (2002)
and co-author, with G. Woodruff of In the field of animal cognition, the premise of David Premacks and Ann James Premacks 1983 book, The Mind of an Ape ISBN 0-393-01581-5 is that It is possible to teach language to an ape. ...
"Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?" The Behavioral and Brain Sciences3,615-636
and author of
Intelligence in Apes and Man (1976)
"Gavagai! : or the Future History of the Animal Language Controversy" (1985). Cognition19,207-296
"Language in chimpanzees?" Science172,808-822
Premack started in primate research in 1954 at the Yerkes Primate Biology Laboratory at the University of Florida. His first two chimpanzee subjects started at the University of Missouri and travelled with him to the University of California, Santa Barbara, and then to the University of Pennsylvania, where he had up to nine chimpanzee subjects. 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
See: his Premack principle The American Psychological Association (APA) is a professional organization representing psychology in the US. It has around 150,000 members and an annual budget of around $70m. ... In operant conditioning, the Premack principle, developed by David Premack states that a commonly occurring and desirable action can be used effectively as a reinforcer for a less desirable one. ...
DavidPremack's contributions have advanced psychological science's comparative understanding of cognition, and its understanding of the nature of animal and human minds.
In what became famous as Premack's principle, he showed us a surprising answer to the question "what is reinforcing?" The answer was that reinforcers are relative, revealing that the nature of reinforcement was more dynamic and subtle than many had believed.
Premack's most recent research contributions, with wife and colleague Ann Premack, have focused on understandings of intentionality and causality cognition in human infants and children.
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