Judgment of conceptual identity in monkeys.

نویسندگان

  • D Bovet
  • J Vauclair
چکیده

Baboons (Papio anubis) were tested on categorization tasks at two different conceptual levels. The monkeys showed their ability (1) to judge as identical or different the objects belonging to two categories, on a perceptual basis, and (2) to perform a judgment of conceptual identity-that is, to use the same/different relation between two previously learned categories. This latter experiment represents the first demonstration of judgment of conceptual identity in a monkey species.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Psychonomic bulletin & review

دوره 8 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2001