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，召回环境特征，过去事件和位置的能力是计划和沟通的基础，但是关于非语言动物的召回能力的数据很少。关于非人类灵长类动物中召回能力的上限以及限制召回因素的上限的数据将使人们对人类和非人类记忆系统之间的相似性和差异有更详细的了解，并改善记忆和空间认知的动物模型。该项目的第一个目的是评估黑猩猩在大规模环境中几个小时或几天前目睹的对象，位置和事件的回忆，地点和事件，包括他们是否拥有有关环境全球结构的信息。 符号能力的黑猩猩将询问他们隐藏在室外林区的多个物体的类型和位置。一些审讯将在室内房间内进行，这不允许对树林的看法进行。审讯将遵循不同的提示方式。在某些试验中，黑猩猩将直接观看现实生活中的活动。在其他试验中，黑猩猩将通过观看活动的视频代表来了解活动。黑猩猩将不得不使用林区的视频表示形式作为在该区域定位物体的指南。视频提示和响应之间的延迟将长达24小时，并评估广义映射技巧，在某些试验中，视频表示中介绍的视觉特征不会与视觉功能重叠 报告时出现。例如，视频录制的角度与黑猩猩可以从其家居笼子所拥有的任何可能的角度不同。该项目的第二个目的是评估黑猩猩和卷尾猴猴子可以使用激光指向设备来查明距离和无法触及的隐藏物体的位置。该项目的第三个目的是通过分析在模拟的，计算机传播的迷宫和障碍任务中分析响应黑猩猩，恒河猴和卷尾猴的响应道路，以评估空间规划技能。该项目的第四个目的是研究黑猩猩和卷cuch在近空间中3-D对象之间的空间关系的感知，并评估每个物种能够识别，产生和管理涉及同类中心参考框架的并发关系。