@article {Benson:2002:1355-8250:33,
title = "Evidence for Symbolic Language Processing in a Bonobo (Pan paniscus)",
journal = "Journal of Consciousness Studies",
parent_itemid = "infobike://imp/jcs",
publishercode ="imp",
year = "2002",
volume = "9",
number = "12",
publication date ="2002-01-01T00:00:00",
pages = "33-56",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "1355-8250",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/jcs/2002/00000009/00000012/1321",
author = "Benson, J. and Greaves, W. and O'Donnell, M. and Taglialatela, J.",
abstract = "
Evidence that an animal is capable of some degree of symbolic, human language processing supports the argument that the animal's consciousness is to some degree human-like. In this paper, we reinterpret the findings of Savage- Rumbaugh et al. (1993) using the twin tools of Deacon's referential hierarchy and Systemic Functional Linguistics, with a view to providing further corroborative evidence for a Bonobo ape's symbolic processing abilities, and as a result to open a window into the consciousness of at least one non-human primate.",
}