Fading perceptual resemblance: a path for rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) to conceptual matching?
Fading perceptual resemblance: a path for rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) to conceptual matching?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cognition.2013.08.001
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发表时间：
2013-12
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影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Church BA
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作者：
David Smith J;Flemming TM;Boomer J;Beran MJ;Church BA
长期以来，认知、比较和发展心理学家一直对人类和动物对抽象关系（如相同和差异）的反应能力感兴趣，因为这种能力可能是认知的关键方面（如类比推理）的基础。最近，这种能力已经在高阶关系样本匹配（RMTS）任务中得到了探索，在这些任务中，人类和动物试图完成不同项目组之间的相同和差异的类比。作者在这一领域引入了一个新的范式，将关系匹配线索与感知匹配线索结合起来。然后，使用已建立的算法的形状失真，知觉线索被削弱和消除。人类的RMTS表现很容易超越感知支持的消除。相比之下，RMTS性能的六只猕猴摇摇欲坠，因为他们从感性的支持断奶。没有猕猴表现出成熟的RMTS表现，即使在超过260，000次的训练试验中，我们试图从他们那里获得关系匹配的表现。这是一个重要的物种差异，猕猴对概念关系的反应如此犹豫，而人类对它们的反应却如此轻松。它提出了关于人类认知进化和人类认知发展过程中这种关键能力出现的理论问题。
Cognitive, comparative, and developmental psychologists have long been intrigued by humans’ and animals’ capacity to respond to abstract relations like sameness and difference, because this capacity may underlie crucial aspects of cognition like analogical reasoning. Recently, this capacity has been explored in higher-order, relational matching-to-sample (RMTS) tasks in which humans and animals try to complete analogies of sameness and difference between disparate groups of items. The authors introduced a new paradigm to this area, by yoking the relational-matching cue to a perceptual-matching cue. Then, using established algorithms for shape distortion, the perceptual cue was weakened and eliminated. Humans’ RMTS performance easily transcended the elimination of perceptual support. In contrast, RMTS performance by six macaques faltered as they were weaned from perceptual support. No macaque showed evidence of mature RMTS performance, even given more than 260,000 training trials during which we tried to coax a relational-matching performance from them. It is an important species difference that macaques show so hesitant a response to conceptual relations when humans respond to them so effortlessly. It raises theoretical questions about the emergence of this crucial capacity during humans’ cognitive evolution and during humans’ cognitive development.
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