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Baboons process second-order relations: a case of complex conceptual (analogical) reasoning without language| old_uid | 14691 |
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| title | Baboons process second-order relations: a case of complex conceptual (analogical) reasoning without language |
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| start_date | 2014/11/25 |
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| schedule | 11h30-13h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle Paul Langevin |
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| details | Invité par Philippe Schlenker (IJN). |
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| summary | Analogical reasoning—the ability to perceive and use relational similarity between two situations or events—is often conceived as fundamental aspect of human cognition. Studies on humans and language -trained chimpanzees suggest that this ability is at least boosted, if not strictly permitted, by a linguistic encoding of the task. I will present several experiments testing guinea baboons on the Relational Matching Task (RMTS), which has the same conceptual structure as standard analogy problems. This task is of the form: Given AA, choose XX over YZ; and given AB, choose YZ over XX. I will show that the baboons can learn this task after extensive training, and will demonstrate that their post-training performance is really based on the processing relations between relations. I will discuss the potential contribution of the (non symbolic) training of baboons to this achievement, in comparison to the symbolic-linguistic experience of children. |
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| responsibles | Sackur |
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