COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF PRIMATE SPATIAL COGNITION AND MEMORY

灵长类空间认知和记忆的比较研究

• 批准号: 6816032
• 负责人: CHARLES R MENZEL
• 金额: $ 0.31万
• 依托单位: GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6816032
• 关键词: Cebidae; Macaca mulatta; Pan; behavior test; behavioral /social science research tag; cognition; computer simulation; cues; memory; neural information processing; paralinguistic behavior; space perception; visual perception

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For humans, the ability to recall environmental features, past events, and locations underlies planning and communication, but there are few data on recall capabilities in nonverbal animals. Data on the upper limits of recall capabilities in nonhuman primates and on the factors that limit recall will lead to a more detailed understanding of the similarities and differences between human and non-human memory systems and to improved animal models of memory and spatial cognition. The first aim of this project is to assess how well chimpanzees can recall and report objects, locations, and events that they witnessed hours or days earlier in a large-scale environment, including whether they possess information about the global structure of the environment. Symbol-competent chimpanzees will be interrogated about the types and locations of multiple objects they saw hidden in an outdoor wooded area. Some interrogations will be conducted in an indoor room, which permits no view of the woods. Interrogations will follow different modes of cue giving. In some trials, the chimpanzee will watch an event directly, in real life. In other trials, the chimpanzee will learn about the event by watching a video representation of the event; the chimpanzee will have to use a video representation of the wooded area as a guide to locating objects in that area. Delays between video cue giving and response will be up to 24 h, and to assess generalized mapping skills, on some trials the visual features presented in the video representation will not overlap with the visual features present at the time of reporting. For example, the angle of the video recording will be different from any possible angle of view the chimpanzee could have from its home cage. The second aim of the project is to assess how well chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys can use laser pointing devices to pinpoint the locations of hidden objects that are at a distance and out of reach. The third aim of the project is to assess spatial planning skills, by analyzing the path of responding of chimpanzees, rhesus monkeys, and capuchin monkeys in simulated, computer-presented maze and barrier tasks. The fourth aim of the project is to study perception of spatial relations among 3-D objects in near space by chimpanzees and capuchins, and to assess how well each species can recognize, produce, and manage concurrent relations involving allocentric frames of reference.

描述（由申请人提供）：对于人类来说，回忆环境特征、过去的事件和地点的能力是计划和交流的基础，但关于非语言动物的回忆能力的数据很少。关于非人类灵长类动物回忆能力上限和限制回忆因素的数据将有助于更详细地了解人类和非人类记忆系统之间的相似性和差异，并改进记忆和空间认知的动物模型。该项目的首要目标是评估黑猩猩回忆和报告它们几小时或几天前在大规模环境中目睹的物体、位置和事件的能力，包括它们是否拥有有关环境整体结构的信息。 具有符号能力的黑猩猩将被询问他们看到隐藏在室外树林中的多个物体的类型和位置。一些审讯将在室内进行，室内看不到树林。审讯将遵循不同的提示模式。在一些试验中，黑猩猩将直接观看现实生活中的事件。在其他试验中，黑猩猩将通过观看事件的视频来了解该事件；黑猩猩必须使用树木繁茂区域的视频表示作为定位该区域物体的指南。视频提示给出和响应之间的延迟将长达 24 小时，并且为了评估广义绘图技能，在某些试验中，视频表示中呈现的视觉特征不会与视觉特征重叠 报告时在场。例如，视频录制的角度将不同于黑猩猩在其家笼中可能拥有的任何可能的视角。该项目的第二个目标是评估黑猩猩和卷尾猴使用激光指向设备来精确定位远处和无法触及的隐藏物体的位置。该项目的第三个目标是通过分析黑猩猩、恒河猴和卷尾猴在模拟、计算机呈现的迷宫和障碍任务中的反应路径来评估空间规划技能。该项目的第四个目标是研究黑猩猩和卷尾猴对近空间 3D 物体之间空间关系的感知，并评估每个物种识别、产生和管理涉及异心参照系的并发关系的能力。