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- Title
Parsimonious explanations and wider evolutionary consequences.
- Authors
King, James E.
- Abstract
The uncertainty response adds an important new dimension to conventional animal learning and memory studies. Although the uncertainty response by monkeys and dolphins resembled that of humans, parsimony alone does not necessarily indicate that the monkeys and dolphins had a full self-awareness. However, the uncertain response may be an index of an evolutionary precursor to full self-awareness of uncertainty and a theory of mind. Studies of two-choice problems including memory discrimination and matching tasks have a long and venerable history in animal learning research.
- Subjects
LEARNING in animals; DOLPHINS; MONKEYS; MEMORY; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology); PHILOSOPHY of mind
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2003, Vol 26, Issue 3, p347
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X03310088