Raising the level: orangutans solve the floating peanut task without visual feedback
| Autor: | Natacha Mendes, Josep Call, Fernando Colmenares, Nerea Amezcua-Valmala, Carla Sebastián-Enesco |
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| Přispěvatelé: | University of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution, University of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscience |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Vertical tube Arachis Pan troglodytes BF Psychology Computer science NDAS BF Visual feedback News and Perspectives Sensorimotor learning Task (project management) Organutans Psicología animal y comparada Orangutans Feedback Sensory Human–computer interaction Floating peanut task Pongo pygmaeus Animals Innovation Pongo Raising (metalworking) Animal ecology Animal Science and Zoology Tool use Insight |
| Zdroj: | E-Prints Complutense. Archivo Institucional de la UCM instname Primates Primates; Journal of Primatology |
| Popis: | This study was supported by project grants from the Regional Government of Madrid and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (CCG07-UCM/SAL-2578; UCM-BSCH GR58/08) awarded to F. Colmenares. Chimpanzees and orangutans are able to generate innovative behaviors to solve complicated physical problems. For example, when presented with an out-of-reach peanut at the bottom of a vertical tube (Floating Peanut Task-FPT), some of them spontaneously spit water into the tube until the peanut floats to the top. Yet, it is unclear whether this innovative solution results from repeating those actions that bring the peanut incrementally closer to the top or from anticipating the solution before acting. In the current study, we addressed this question by presenting three naïve orangutans with an opaque version of the FPT that prevented them from obtaining visual information about the effect of their actions on the position of the peanut. One of the subjects solved the opaque FPT in the very first trial: he collected water from the faucet and poured it into the opaque tube repeatedly until the hitherto non-visible peanut reached the top. This provides evidence for the first time that orangutans can potentially solve the FPT without relying on sensorimotor learning, but to some extent by mentally representing the problem. Publisher PDF |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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