Table 1:
13 Task Comprising the PCTB, Number of Items and Trials (Based on Herrmann et al. 2007)
| Physical Cognition | |
| Spatial Memory | Location of hidden baited reward (1 item, 3 trials) |
| Object Permanence | Tracking of reward atter invisible displacement (3 items, 9 trials) |
| Rotation | Tracking location of reward after rotation (3 items,9 trials) |
| Transposition | Tracking rewards after location changes (3 items, 9 trials) |
| Quantify Discrimination | Discriminate quantity (1 item, 13 trials) |
| Causality (Noise) | Causal understanding of produced noise by hidden rewards (2 items, 6 trials) |
| Causality (Visual) | Causal understanding of appearance change by hidden rewards (2 items, 6 trials) |
| Tool Use | Use a lollipop stick to retrieve out of reach food (1 item, 2 trials) |
| Tool Comprehension | Understanding of functional and nonfunctional tool properties (5 items, 15 trials) |
| Social Cognition | |
| Comprehension | Understanding communicative cues to select hidden food location (3 items, 9 trials) |
| Production | Producing communicative gestures in order to receive hidden food (1 item, 4 trials) |
| Attention State | Using communicative signals according to attention state of audience (4 items, 4 trials) |
| Gaze Following | Following an experimenters gaze direction toa target (3 items, 9 trials) |
Note that each chimpanzee was tested twice on the PCTB tasks; thus, for the performance measures in this study, the number of trials administered to each subjects was twice as many as reported in the Table.