ARE MONKEYS LOGICAL
ARE MONKEYS LOGICAL
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DOI：
10.1038/267694a0
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发表时间：
1977-01-01
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影响因子：
64.8
通讯作者：
CHALMERS, M
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作者：
MCGONIGLE, BO;CHALMERS, M
猴子作为一个思想家的地位从来就不高;然而，实验室的研究证明，许多种类的猴子即使不能推理，也能学习复杂的任务。然而，在后一点上，明显缺乏确凿的证据。其中一个原因是，很难设计出既对非语言受试者有意义又满足正式推理测试的严格要求的测试，例如改编自Burt 1的测试，该测试首先给受试者以下信息：“Edith比Suzanne更漂亮”，“Edith比Lili更黑”，然后要求解决问题，“Edith，Suzanne还是Lili，哪个最黑？"。Bryant和Trabasso设计了一种简化的方法来给非常年幼的孩子做这样的测试，我们已经把它变成了一种非语言的方法，用于猴子。
THE monkey's status as a thinker has never been high; yet laboratory investigations testify, nevertheless, to the ability of many species of monkey to learn complex tasks, if not to reason. On this latter point, however, hard evidence is significantly lacking. One reason for this is that it is difficult to devise tests which are both meaningful to non-verbal subjects yet satisfy the stringent requirements of a formal reasoning test such as one adapted from Burt1which first gives the subject the following information: “Edith is fairer than Suzanne”, “Edith is darker than Lili”, and then requires solution of the question, “which is the darkest, Edith, Suzanne or Lili?”. Bryant and Trabasso2have devised a simplified method of giving such tests to very young children, and we have adapted this into a non-verbal one for use with monkeys.