Causal capture effects in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
Causal capture effects in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cognition.2016.10.023
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
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3.4
通讯作者：
Tomonaga, Masaki
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作者：
Matsuno, Toyomi;Tomonaga, Masaki
从物理世界中提取因果结构是生活在动态变化环境中的动物的重要需求。已知人类的感知和认知机制是敏感的，并且被调整以检测和解释这种因果结构。与对人类因果感知的严格调查相反，这种感知的系统发生根源还没有得到很好的理解。在本研究中，我们的目的是调查非人类动物的机械因果关系的易感性，通过测试黑猩猩是否感知到一种错觉，称为因果捕获（Scholl & Nakayama，2002）。因果捕捉是一种现象，在这种现象中，由于对共同发生的因果事件的偏见，物体的一种非线性视觉运动被感知为因果碰撞。在我们的实验中，我们评估了黑猩猩感知一个共同发生的因果事件的反射流/反弹运动事件的易感性。结果表明，与人类相似，黑猩猩的因果“弹跳”感知显着增加，增加了一个任务无关的因果弹跳事件，是同步呈现的。这些结果表明，环境中因果结构的视觉解释背后的感知机制在进化上是人类和非人类动物共享的。(C)© 2016 Elsevier B. V.版权所有。
Extracting a cause-and-effect structure from the physical world is an important demand for animals living in dynamically changing environments. Human perceptual and cognitive mechanisms are known to be sensitive and tuned to detect and interpret such causal structures. In contrast to rigorous investigations of human causal perception, the phylogenetic roots of this perception are not well understood. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the susceptibility of nonhuman animals to mechanical causality by testing whether chimpanzees perceived an illusion called causal capture (Scholl & Nakayama, 2002). Causal capture is a phenomenon in which a type of bistable visual motion of objects is perceived as causal collision due to a bias from a co-occurring causal event. In our experiments, we assessed the susceptibility of perception of a bistable stream/bounce motion event to a co-occurring causal event in chimpanzees. The results show that, similar to in humans, causal "bounce" percepts were significantly increased in chimpanzees with the addition of a task-irrelevant causal bounce event that was synchronously presented. These outcomes suggest that the perceptual mechanisms behind the visual interpretation of causal structures in the environment are evolutionarily shared between human and nonhuman animals. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.