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The origin of self-knowledge is arguably the most fundamental problem of developmental psychology. Recent progress in the study of infant behavior provides important and new insights regarding the origins of self-knowledge (Rochat 1995).
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Itakura, S. (2008). The Level of Self-Knowledge in Nonhuman Primates: From the Perspective of Comparative Cognitive Science. In: Matsuzawa, T. (eds) Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-09423-4_15
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