Formation of categories based on functions in a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 212-225

  Tanaka, Masayuki ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Functional category; Lexigram; Matching to sample task; Picture

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031292321     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5884.00054     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Bhatt, R. S., Wasserman, E. A., Reynolds, F., Jr., & Knauss, K. S. (1988). Conceptual behavior in pigeons: Categorization of both familiar and novel examples from four classes of natural and artificial stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 14, 219-234.
2. D'Amato, M. R., & Van Sant, P. (1988). The person concept in monkeys (Cebtis apella). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 14, 43-55.
3. Fenson, L., Vella, D., & Kennedy, M. (1989). Children's knowledge of thematic and taxonomic relations at two years of age. Child Development, 60, 911-919.
4. Fushimi, T. (1994). Acquisition of demand and reject behaviors in a chimpanzee. In S. C. Heyes, L. J. Heyes, M. Sato, & K. Ono (Eds.), Behavior analysis of language and cognition (pp. 123-144). Reno, NV: Context Press.
5. Gillan, D. G., Premack, D., & Woodruff, G. (1981). Reasoning in the chimpanzee: I. Analogical reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 7, 1-17.
6. Herrnstein, R. J., Loveland, D. H., & Cable, C. (1976). Natural concepts in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 2, 285-302.
7. Itakura, S. (1994). Symbolic representation of possession in a chimpanzee. In S. Parker, R. Mitchell, & M. Boccia (Eds.), Self-awareness in animals and humans: developmental perspectives (pp. 241-247). New York: Cambridge University Press.
8. Kojima, S. (1990). Comparison of auditory functions in the chimpanzee and human. Folia Primatologica, 55, 62-72.
9. Lucariello, J., Kyratzis, A., & Nelson, K. (1992). Taxonomic knowledge: What kind and when? Child Development, 63, 978-998.
10. Markman, E. M., & Hutchinson, J. E. (1984). Children's sensitivity to constraints on word meaning: Taxonomic versus thematic relation. Cognitive Psychology, 16, 1-27.
11. Oden, D. L., Thompson, R. K. R., & Premack, D. (1990). Infant chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) spontaneously perceive both concrete and abstract same/different relations. Child Development, 61, 621-631.
12. Premack, D. (1976). Intelligence in ape and man. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
13. Premack, D. (1983a). Animal cognition. Annual Review of Psychology, 34, 351-362.
14. Premack, D. (1983b). The codes of man and beasts. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 6, 125-167.
15. Premack, D., & Premack, A. J. (1983). The mind of an ape. New York: Norton.
16. Rosch, E., Mervis, C. B., Gray, W. D., Johnson, D. M., & Boyes-Graem, P. (1976). Basic objects in natural categories. Cognitive Psychology, 8, 382-439.
17. Rumbaugh, D. M. (1977). Language learning by a chimpanzee. New York: Academic Press.
18. Savage-Rumbaugh, E. S. (1986). Ape language. New York: Colombia University Press.
19. Savage-Rumbaugh, E. S., Rumbaugh, D. M., Smith, S. T., & Lawson, J. (1980). Reference: The linguistic essential. Science, 210, 922-924.
20. Tanaka, M. (1994). Relational matching to sample in chimpanzees. Primate Research, 10, 159 (in Japanese).
21. Tanaka, M. (1995). Object sorting in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Classification based on identity, complementarity, and familiarity. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 109, 151-161.
22. Tanaka, M. (1996). Information integration about object-object relationships in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 110, 323-335.
23. Thompson, R. K. R., & Oden, D. L. (1993). "Language training" and its role in the expression of tacit prepositional knowledge by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). In H. L. Roitblat, L. M. Herman, & P. E. Nachtigall (Eds.), Language and communication: comparative perspectives (pp. 365-384). Hillsdale, NJ: LEA.
24. Tomonaga, M., Matsuzawa, T., Fujita, K., & Yamamoto, J. (1991). Emergence of symmetry in a visual conditional discrimination by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Psychological Reports, 68, 51-60.
25. Vaughan, W., Jr. (1988). Formation of equivalence sets in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 14, 36-42.