David Premack
Autore di The Mind of an Ape
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David Premack is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
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- 4.1
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The cover image is from part of the study where they tried to teach the chimps abstraction using maps- if they showed the chimp a picture or video of a room it was familiar with, and hidden food, would the chimp find the food when taken to the real room? nope. So then they made a tiny model of the room, showed the chimp hidden food in the model, and took it to the real room. It still failed to find the food. Only when the model was actual size compared to the real room, did the chimp immediately move to the hidden food. Then they worked backwards, using smaller and smaller models and then finally flat representations on paper, and now the chimp was able to transfer the information and find the hidden reward- but not, interestingly, if they rotated the map.
I feel like I should read this again someday to understand it all better, particularly as I didn’t really grasp some of the conclusions but not sure if I can see where there might be a flaw in deducing what the tests showed. For sure later language and intelligence studies with chimps and gorillas has already done this.
from the Dogear Diary… (altro)