Journal article
How do crows and parrots come to spontaneously perceive relations-between-relations?
Current opinion in behavioral sciences, Vol.37, pp.109-117
02/2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.11.009
Abstract
Can nonhuman animals use an abstract sense of sameness to perceive relations-between-relations? This question has been studied over the last 40 years; yet, the extent to which nonhuman species can do so is still debated. Here, we review evidence suggesting that crows and parrots can acquire an abstract sameness rule after mastering a series of highly varied identity matching-to-sample (IMTS) tasks and later spontaneously apply this rule to perform relational matching-to-sample (RMTS) tasks. Such spontaneously successful performance on RMTS tasks may critically depend on the nature of an organism’s prior IMTS learning experience.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- How do crows and parrots come to spontaneously perceive relations-between-relations?
- Creators
- Anna A Smirnova - Lomonosov Moscow State University, RussiaTatiana A Obozova - Lomonosov Moscow State University, RussiaZoya A Zorina - Lomonosov Moscow State University, RussiaEdward A Wasserman - The University of Iowa, United States
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Current opinion in behavioral sciences, Vol.37, pp.109-117
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.11.009
- ISSN
- 2352-1546
- eISSN
- 2352-1554
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/501100002261, name: Russian Foundation for Basic Research, award: 20-015-00287; DOI: 10.13039/501100012190, name: Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, award: 075-015-2020-801
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/2021
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070346702771
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