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- Title
Different Cognitive Strategies for Determining Common Image Features in Other Primates and Preschool Children.
- Authors
Golubeva, Inna Y.; Tikhonravov, Dmitrii L.; Kuznetsova, Tamara G.
- Abstract
One of the stages in the formation of concepts is the identification of common object features or common image features (CIFs). Testing for differences in how humans and other primates identify CIFs is of scientific interest, because such differences can shed light on the cognitive strategies used during concept formations. We tested how 11 macaques (Macaca mulatta), two gibbons (Hylobates lar), and 41 children aged 4–5 years and 6–7 years to determine CIFs. The participants performed a sequence of tests containing nine tasks with different CIFs. Each task included a learning stage when participants had to identify a CIF and a testing stage when they had to categorize new stimuli corresponding to this CIF. The other primates took longer than children to identify CIFs during the first five tasks but then quickly identified new CIFs in the subsequent four tasks. In children, the time taken to identify CIFs did not depend on the place of a task in task sequence. They quickly identified some features (e.g., black or white), but other features (e.g., presence or absence of angles) took considerably more time. This difference was most likely related to the degree of familiarity of the image features. The ability to categorize was lower in the 4–5-year-old children than the older children, macaques, and gibbons. The different strategies used to identify CIFs may be linked to the prevalence of two functions of abstract thinking: the inductive function in other primates, and the deductive function in 4–5- and 6–7-year-old children.
- Subjects
PRIMATES; PRESCHOOL children; RHESUS monkeys; ABSTRACT thought; MACAQUES
- Publication
International Journal of Primatology, 2024, Vol 45, Issue 2, p336
- ISSN
0164-0291
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10764-023-00403-5