Topic: solo condition

It remains controversial whether the ability to represent the world from the perspective of another (mentalising), is confined to humans. To address this question, we combined computational models of mentalising with a new experimental setup of Guinea baboons living in a social colony, which required no direct human intervention or teaching. Baboons freely came to play a strategic coordination game via touchscreen devices with any other baboon (social condition), or alone (solo condition). In fact, in both conditions, they were interacting with an identical Artificial Agent. The ability to suc