COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF PRIMATE SPATIAL COGNITION AND MEMORY

灵长类空间认知和记忆的比较研究

• 批准号: 6816032
• 负责人: CHARLES R MENZEL
• 金额: $ 0.31万
• 依托单位: GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6816032
• 关键词: Cebidae; Macaca mulatta; Pan; behavior test; behavioral /social science research tag; cognition; computer simulation; cues; memory; neural information processing; paralinguistic behavior; space perception; visual perception

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For humans, the ability to recall environmental features, past events, and locations underlies planning and communication, but there are few data on recall capabilities in nonverbal animals. Data on the upper limits of recall capabilities in nonhuman primates and on the factors that limit recall will lead to a more detailed understanding of the similarities and differences between human and non-human memory systems and to improved animal models of memory and spatial cognition. The first aim of this project is to assess how well chimpanzees can recall and report objects, locations, and events that they witnessed hours or days earlier in a large-scale environment, including whether they possess information about the global structure of the environment. Symbol-competent chimpanzees will be interrogated about the types and locations of multiple objects they saw hidden in an outdoor wooded area. Some interrogations will be conducted in an indoor room, which permits no view of the woods. Interrogations will follow different modes of cue giving. In some trials, the chimpanzee will watch an event directly, in real life. In other trials, the chimpanzee will learn about the event by watching a video representation of the event; the chimpanzee will have to use a video representation of the wooded area as a guide to locating objects in that area. Delays between video cue giving and response will be up to 24 h, and to assess generalized mapping skills, on some trials the visual features presented in the video representation will not overlap with the visual features present at the time of reporting. For example, the angle of the video recording will be different from any possible angle of view the chimpanzee could have from its home cage. The second aim of the project is to assess how well chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys can use laser pointing devices to pinpoint the locations of hidden objects that are at a distance and out of reach. The third aim of the project is to assess spatial planning skills, by analyzing the path of responding of chimpanzees, rhesus monkeys, and capuchin monkeys in simulated, computer-presented maze and barrier tasks. The fourth aim of the project is to study perception of spatial relations among 3-D objects in near space by chimpanzees and capuchins, and to assess how well each species can recognize, produce, and manage concurrent relations involving allocentric frames of reference.

描述（由申请人提供）：对于人类来说，回忆环境特征、过去事件和位置的能力是计划和沟通的基础，但关于非语言动物回忆能力的数据很少。关于非人灵长类动物回忆能力上限和限制回忆的因素的数据将导致对人类和非人类记忆系统之间的相似性和差异的更详细的理解，并改进记忆和空间认知的动物模型。该项目的第一个目标是评估黑猩猩在大规模环境中回忆和报告几小时或几天前目睹的物体，地点和事件的能力，包括它们是否拥有有关环境全球结构的信息。 有象征能力的黑猩猩将被询问他们看到的隐藏在户外树林中的多个物体的类型和位置。有些审讯将在室内进行，看不到树林。审讯将遵循不同的提示模式。在一些试验中，黑猩猩会直接观看真实的生活中的事件。在其他试验中，黑猩猩将通过观看事件的视频表示来了解事件;黑猩猩将不得不使用树木区域的视频表示作为该区域中定位物体的指南。视频提示给出和响应之间的延迟将长达24小时，并且为了评估广义映射技能，在一些试验中，视频表示中呈现的视觉特征将不与视觉特征重叠 报告时在场。例如，视频记录的角度将不同于黑猩猩从它的笼子里所能看到的任何可能的视角。该项目的第二个目的是评估黑猩猩和卷尾猴如何使用激光指向设备来精确定位远处和无法到达的隐藏物体。该项目的第三个目的是通过分析黑猩猩、恒河猴和卷尾猴在模拟的计算机迷宫和障碍任务中的反应路径，评估空间规划技能。该项目的第四个目的是研究黑猩猩和卷尾猴在近空间中对3-D物体之间空间关系的感知，并评估每个物种如何识别，产生和管理涉及allocentric参考系的并发关系。