Piagetian Assessment on Cognitive Development in Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

Mathieu, Mireille; Bergeron, G.

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“…CHEVALIER-SKOLNIKOFF, 1983;HUGHES & REDSHAW, 1974;MATHIEU & BERGERON, 1981;NATALE et al, 1986;PARKER & GIBSON, 1977). A less rigid focus is on "species specificity or the adaptational dimension of cognitive capacities" (DoRI~ & DUMAS, 1987, p. 230), as exemplified by field research on the adaptive significance of intelligence (in wild orangutan adults by CHEVALIER-SKOLNIKOFF et al, 1982; in orangutan mother-infant communication by BARD, 1992BARD, , 1993 in wild chimpanzee adults by BOESCH & BOESCH, 1984).…”

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Sensorimotor cognition in young feral orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)

Bard

1995

Primates

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ABSTRACT. The goal of this study was to describe object manipulation in wild orangutan infants and juveniles. Object manipulation is an important subsistence activity that also reflects cognitive functioning. Orangutans were studied in the field, at the Tanjung Puting Reserve, Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia. Fourteen orangutans, grouped by age (infants 2.5 to 4.6 years; juveniles 5 to 8.5 years), were observed over a total of 555 hr and for an average of three full dawn-to-dusk "follows" each. Young orangutan's manipulations were categorized along a hierarchy of complexity. The least complex manipulations were single sensorimotor actions such as grasping, mouthing, and waving. The most complex manipulations were combinations and coordinations of actions, such as experimentation with objects, tool use, and planning. Manipulative behavior occurred mainly when foraging, i.e. when obtaining and processing food items. Interestingly, complex behavior occurred most often when locomoting. The most complex object manipulations, however, occurred rarely. Infants and juveniles exhibited equivalent levels of complexity. Several aspects of this study point to the importance of social assistance provided by competent mothers for the development of young orangutans' ability to locomote and to locate, obtain, and process food items. This study also highlights the cognitive abilities of young wild orangutans regarding tool use.

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Sensorimotor cognition in young feral orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)

Bard

1995

Primates

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“…These species included squirrel monkeys [Vaughter et al, 1972], rhesus monkeys [Wise et al, 1974], woolly monkeys and capuchin monkeys [Mathieu et al, 1976], stump-tailed macaques [Parker, 1977], gorillas [Redshaw, 1978], and chimpanzees [Mathieu et al, 1976;Mathieu & Bergeron, 1981;Wood et al, 1980]. However, Natale et al [1986] argued that these early studies could not provide indisputable evidence of an ability to mentally represent occluded objects and their unperceived trajectories, because these tasks could be solved by using simple search strategies.…”

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Can Black‐and‐White Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia variegata) Solve Object Permanence Tasks?

Mallavarapu

Perdue

Stoinski

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American J Primatol

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We examined object permanence in black-and-white-ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegata) at Zoo Atlanta. A series of visible and invisible displacement tasks with suitable controls were presented to five adult subjects. Subjects performed significantly above chance on all regular tasks, except for the double invisible displacements. Subjects failed visible and invisible controls. Failure on the control trials did not appear to be because subjects used the "last box touched" strategy (subjects did not choose the last box touched significantly more than expected by chance). However, a substantial percentage of choices was made to the last box touched by the experimenter. There was no significant difference between this percentage, and the percentage of choices made to the baited box (on both visible and invisible controls), which indicates that subjects were drawn to both boxes which the experimenter visited/touched, and thus failed the controls. Based on the results from the present study, we believe that there is no evidence that black-and-white ruffed lemurs understand visible and invisible tasks in the traditional object permanence battery.

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“…They also fit well into Piaget's theoretical frame concept which is used by some authors for compara tive analysis [Jolly, 1985;Parker andGibson, 1977, 1982;Mathieu et al, 1976Mathieu et al, , 1980Mathieu and Bergeron, 1981]. Since our results cannot be separated from the constantly changing methodology, it does not seem ap propriate to classify the data according to Piaget's stage model as is the case, for exam ple, with Parker and Gibson.…”

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Cognitive Processes in Cebus Monkeys (Cebus apella) when Solving Problem-Box Tasks

Simons¹,

Holtkötter²

1986

IJFP

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Although monkeys are capable of solving problem-box tasks, they were said to perform without ‘understanding the value of unlocking’ and to use ‘kinesthetic control’ only [Kohts, 1928]. However, the cognitive processes are much more complex – at least in Cebus monkeys: the problem-solving process was conducted according to the position of the catch in relation to the edge of the door, i.e. our monkey learnt to use visual control. The main characteristics of the monkey’s behavior were similar to those exhibited by children. Problem-box tasks proved to be a suitable method for the comparative analysis of cognitive processes in primates.

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Piagetian Assessment on Cognitive Development in Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

Cited by 45 publications

References 5 publications

Sensorimotor cognition in young feral orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)

Sensorimotor cognition in young feral orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)

Can Black‐and‐White Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia variegata) Solve Object Permanence Tasks?

Cognitive Processes in Cebus Monkeys (Cebus apella) when Solving Problem-Box Tasks

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