How Animals Classify Friends and Foes
How Animals Classify Friends and Foes
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动物如何区分朋友和敌人
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2000
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通讯作者：
D. Kastak
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作者：
R. Schusterman;C. Reichmuth;D. Kastak
刺激等值模型描述了基于非相似性的类别是如何形成的，用来描述动物社会和交际互动的各个方面，如亲属关系、友谊、联盟、领地行为和指称呼唤。虽然这一模式最初是为了处理语言行为中的刺激关系，但它可以很容易地应用于理解构成众多类别中社会性和非社会性范畴的认知机制。这种方法提供了一种新的、简约的、基于实验的理解，即没有语言的动物是如何处理环境中的分类问题的。
A model of stimulus equivalence, which describes how non-similarity-based categories are formed, is used to describe aspects of animal social and communicative interactions such as kinship, friendship, coalitions, territorial behavior, and referential calling. Although this model was originally designed to deal with stimulus relations in linguistic behavior, it can be readily applied to understanding the cognitive mechanisms that underlie social as well as non-social categorizations in numerous taxa. This approach provides a new, parsimonious, and experimentally based understanding of how animals without language deal with problems of classification in their environment.