Primate Cognition
Primate Cognition
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1756-8765.2010.01099.x
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
A. Seed;M. Tomasello
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作者：
A. Seed;M. Tomasello
由于动物行为研究的认知革命进展缓慢，我们对灵长类动物认知的绝大多数了解都是在过去30年中发现的。人类及其现存的灵长类亲属的物质和社会世界构成了许多相同的进化挑战，基于这一认识，研究计划已经确定，人类用来驾驭这些世界的最基本的认知技能和心理表征已经被其他灵长类动物所拥有。然而，人类和其他灵长类动物在更复杂的认知技能上可能存在差异，例如对关系、因果关系、时间和其他思想的推理。特别重要的是，人类灵长类动物似乎拥有一套独特的“文化智力”适应能力，这对人类认知的影响是广泛的。
As the cognitive revolution was slow to come to the study of animal behavior, the vast majority of what we know about primate cognition has been discovered in the last 30 years. Building on the recognition that the physical and social worlds of humans and their living primate relatives pose many of the same evolutionary challenges, programs of research have established that the most basic cognitive skills and mental representations that humans use to navigate those worlds are already possessed by other primates. There may be differences between humans and other primates, however, in more complex cognitive skills, such as reasoning about relations, causality, time, and other minds. Of special importance, the human primate seems to possess a species-unique set of adaptations for "cultural intelligence," which are broad reaching in their effects on human cognition.