Meaning and mind in monkeys.
Meaning and mind in monkeys.
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猴子的意义和思想。
DOI：
10.1038/scientificamerican1292-122
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发表时间：
1992
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
D. Cheney
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文献类型：
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作者：
R. Seyfarth;D. Cheney
在1981年温布尔登网球锦标赛期间，官员们遇到了一个不寻常的问题。一些男球员，尤其是吉米·康纳斯，在击球时经常大声哼哼。他们的反对者抗议，要求停止这种做法。这些安静的球员声称这些噪音会分散他们的注意力，并且是故意发出的，以打乱他们的时间。当官员质问康纳斯和其他“声音”球员时，他们得到了一个略有不同的解释。康纳斯说，有些球员确实会故意发出咕噜声，但他不会。他解释说，他无法控制自己的咕噜声；当他用力击球时就发生了。大多数其他咕哝者也愿意承认有些玩家确实是故意发出声音的，但每个人都否认自己有意识地控制了这些特定的声音。
During the Wimbledon tennis championships in 1981, officials were confronted with an un usual problem. Some male players, no tably Jimmy Connors, were regularly grunting loudly as they hit the ball. Their opponents protested, demanding that this practice be stopped. These qui eter players claimed the noises were distracting and were emitted deliber ately to throw off their timing. When officials confronted Connors and the other" vocal" players, they re ceived a slightly different explanation. Connors said that some players do grunt on purpose-but not him. He ex plained that he had no control over his grunting; it just happened when he hit the ball hard. Most of the other grunters were also willing to admit that some players did emit the sounds intentional ly, but each denied that he himself had any conscious control over these partic ular vocalizations.