Do orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) know when they do not remember?

Animal Cognition

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 21-42

  Suda King, Chikako ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Escape response; Metacognition; Orangutans

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; REWARD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REWARD; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; PONGO PYGMAEUS; SIMIIFORMES; VITACEAE;

EID: 36749044716     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-007-0082-7     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Barth J, Call J (2006) Tracking the displacement of objects: a series of tasks with great apes (Pan troglodytes, Pan paniscus, Gorilla gorilla, and Pongo pygmaeus) and young children (Homo sapiens). J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Proc 32:239-252
2. Beran MJ (2002) Maintenance of self-imposed delay of gratification by four chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and an orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). J Gen Psychol 129:49-66
3. Beran MJ, Pate JL, Rumbaugh DM (1999) Delay of gratification in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Dev Psychol 34:119-127
4. Beran MJ, Smith JD, Redford JS, Washburn DA (2006) Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) monitor uncertainty during numerosity judgments. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Proc 32:111-119
5. Bräuer J, Call J, Tomasello M (2004) Visual perspective-taking in dogs (Canis familiaris) in the presence of barriers. Appl Anim Behav Sci 88:299-317
6. Call (2001) Object permanence in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and children (Homo sapiens). J Comp Psychol 115:159-171
7. Call (2003) Spatial rotations and transpositions in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) and chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Primates 44:347-357
8. Call J (2005) The self and other: a missing link in comparative social cognition. In: Terrace HS, Metcalfe J (eds) The missing link in cognition: origins of self-reflective consciousness. Oxford University Press, New York, pp 321-341
9. Call J, Carpenter M (2001) Do apes and children know what they have seen?. Anim Cogn 4:207-220
10. de Blois ST, Novak MA, Bond M (1998) Object permanence in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) and squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus). J Comp Psychol 112:137-152
11. de Blois ST, Novak MA, Bond M (1999) Can memory requirements account for species' differences in invisible displacement tasks?. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Proc 25:168-176
12. Hampton RR (2001) Rhesus monkeys know when they remember. Proc Natl Acad Sci 98:5359-5362
13. Hampton RR, Zivin A, Murray EA (2004) Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) discriminate between knowing and not knowing and collect information as needed before acting. Anim Cogn 7:239-246
14. Hare B, Call J, Tomasello M (2001) Do chimpanzees know what conspecifics know?. Anim Behav 61:139-151
15. Hare B, Call J, Agnetta B, Tomasello M (2000) Chimpanzees know what conspecifics do and do not see. Anim Behav 59:771-785
16. Inman A, Shettleworth SJ (1999) Detecting metamemory in nonverbal subjects: a test with pigeons. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Proc 25:389-395
17. Kaminski J, Call J, masello M (2004) Body orientation and face orientation: two factors controlling apes' begging behavior from humans. Anim Cogn 7:216-223
18. Kornell N, Son LK, Terrace HS (2007) Transfer of metacognitive skills and hint seeking in monkeys. Psychol Sci 18:64-71
19. MacDonald SE, Agnes MM (1999) Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus abelii) spatial memory and behavior in a foraging task. J Comp Psychol 113:213-217
20. Melis AP, Call J, Tomasello M (2006) Chimpanzees conceal visual and auditory information from others. J Comp Psychol 120:154-162
21. Nelson TO, Narens L (1990) Metamemory: a theoretical framework and new findings. In: Bower GH (ed) The psychology of learning and motivation, vol. 26. Academic Press, New York, pp 125-141
22. Nelson TO, Narens L (1994) Why investigate metacognition? In: Metcalfe J, Shimamura AP (eds) Metacognition: knowing about knowing. MIT Press, Cambridge, pp 1-25
23. Paukner A, Anderson JR, Fujita K (2006) Redundant food searches by capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella): a failure of metacognition? Anim Cogn 9:110-117
24. Sabiaul F, Romansky K, Cantlon JF, Klein T, Terrace H (in press) Cognitive imitation in 2-year-old human children (Homo sapience): a comparison with rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Anim Cogn. doi:10.1007/s10071-006-0070-3
25. Shields WE, Smith JD, Guttmannova K, Washburn DA (2005) Confidence judgments by humans and rhesus monkeys. J Gen Psychol 132:165-186
26. Shields WE, Smith JD, Washburn DA (1997) Uncertain responses by humans and rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) in a psychophysical same-different task. J Exp Psychol Gen 126:147-164
27. Shillito DJ, Shumaker RW, Gallup GG, Beck BB (2005) Understanding visual barriers: evidence for level 1 perspective taking in an orang-utan, Pongo pygmaeus. Anim Behav 69:679-687
28. Shumaker RW and Swartz KB (2004) Cognition: mirror self-recognition. In: Bekoff M (ed) Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Vol. 1, A-C. Greenwood Press, Westport CT London, pp 308-312
29. Smith JD, Schull J, Strote J, McGee K, Egnor R, Erb L (1995) The uncertain response in the bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). J Exp Psychol Gen 124:391-408
30. Smith JD, Shields WE, Allendoerfer KR, Washburn DA (1998) Memory monitoring by animals and humans. J Exp Psychol Gen 127:227-250
31. Smith JD, Shields WE, Schull J, Washburn DA (1997) The uncertain response in humans and animals. Cognition 62:75-97
32. Smith JD, Shields WE, Washburn DA (2003a) The comparative psychology of uncertainty monitoring and metacognition. Behav Brain Sci 26:317-339
33. Smith JD, Shields WE, Washburn DA (2003b) Inaugurating a new area of comparative cognition research. Behav Brain Sci 26:358-373
34. Son LK, Kornell N (2005) Metaconfidence judgments in rhesus macaques: explicit versus implicit mechanisms. In: Terrace HS, Metcalfe J (eds) The missing link in cognition: origins of self-reflective consciousness. Oxford University Press, New York, pp 296-320
35. Swartz KB, Himmanen SA (2006) Individual response strategies in list learning by orangutans. Int J Psychol Psychol Therapy 6:233-248
36. Tomasello M, Hare B, Agnetta B (1999) Chimapnzees, Pan troglodytes, follow gaze direction geometrically. Anim Behav 58:769-777
37. Washburn DA, Smith JD, Shields WE (2006) Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) immediately generalize the uncertain response. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Proc 32:185-189