Learning and Generalization of Tool Use by Tufted Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) in Tasks Involving Three Factors: Reward, Tool, and Hindrance
Learning and Generalization of Tool Use by Tufted Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) in Tasks Involving Three Factors: Reward, Tool, and Hindrance
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10.1037/a0020274
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2011-01-01
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Kuroshima, Hika
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Fujita, Kazuo;Sato, Yoshiaki;Kuroshima, Hika
我们测试了4个圈养的簇绒卷尾猴（Cebus apella）的理解物理因果关系的变化的2选择工具的使用任务，其中1种选择，让猴子更容易获得食物。我们的猴子已经熟练地完成了这个涉及2个项目的任务，即工具和食物，很快就学会了涉及食物，工具和1种障碍（障碍或陷阱，这可能会阻止成功）的3项问题。所有的猴子都将他们的表现推广到使用其他类型障碍的新问题和使用另一种熟悉工具的问题。这些结果表明，他们的能力的灵活性，处理复杂的物理信息，包括3个项目的环境中，即食物工具阻碍空间关系。这种灵活性也意味着卷尾猴可能对工具使用中的因果关系有初步的理解。
We tested 4 captive tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) for their understanding of physical causality in variations of a 2-choice tool use task, 1 alternative of which allowed the monkeys easier access to food. Our monkeys, who had been adept at this task involving 2 items, that is, tool and food, quickly learned 3-term problems involving food, tool, and 1 type of hindrance (an obstacle or a trap, which could prevent success). All of the monkeys generalized their performance to new problems with the other type of hindrance and those with another familiar tool. These results suggest flexibility of their abilities to process complex physical information comprising 3 items in the environment, that is food tool hindrance spatial relationships. Such flexibility also implies that capuchin monkeys may possess rudimentary understanding of causal relationships involved in tool use.