Fading perceptual resemblance: A path for rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) to conceptual matching?

Smith, J. David; Flemming, Timothy M.; Boomer, Joseph; Beran, Michael J.; Church, Barbara A.

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2013.08.001

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“…These displacements were significant fractions of the entire 30 × 30 grid, and so one sees that the degree of distortion became quite large approaching similarity Level 60. Details of this procedure were given in Smith et al (2013). As level decreased, the overall similarity between the sample pair and the correct choicealternative pair faded, the perceptual cue indicating the correct choice weakened, so participants finally had to transition to a true relational strategy.…”

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“…The present task uses only two-item pairs, so the entropy cue is minimized or eliminated (see also Castro & Wasserman, 2013). Smith, Flemming, Boomer, Beran, and Church (2013) provided the closest model for the present study, and its strongest motivation. They tried to foster monkeys' RMTS performance using perceptual cues.…”

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“…Bottom: Hank's proportion correct for all trials in each trial block, depicted as already described. Adapted from BFading perceptual resemblance: A path for rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) to conceptual matching?^by J. D. Smith, T. M. Flemming, J. Boomer, M. J. Beran, & B. Church, 2013, Cognition, 129, 598-614.…”

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“…Copyright Elsevier Ltd. 2013. Reprinted with permission Humans' performance by 10-trial block in the relational match-tosample (RMTS) task of Smith et al (2013). Top: Average level of perceptual support they experienced at each trial block.…”

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Breaking the perceptual-conceptual barrier: Relational matching and working memory

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Cognitive, comparative, and developmental psychologists have long been interested in humans' and animals' ability to respond to abstract relations, as this ability may underlie important capacities like analogical reasoning. Cross-species research has used relational matching-to-sample (RMTS) tasks in which participants try to find stimulus pairs that Bmatch^because they both express the same abstract relation (same or different). Researchers seek to understand the cognitive processes that underlie successful matching performance. In the present RMTS paradigm, the abstract-relational cue was made redundant with a firstorder perceptual cue. Then the perceptual cue faded, requiring participants to transition from a perceptual to a conceptual approach by realizing the task's abstract-relational affordance. We studied participants' ability to make this transition with and without a working-memory load. The concurrent load caused participants to fail to break the perceptual-conceptual barrier unless the load was abandoned. We conclude that finding the conceptual solution depends on reconstruing the task using cognitive processes that are especially reliant on working memory. Our data provide the closest existing look at this cognitive reorganization. They raise important theoretical issues for cross-species comparisons of relational cognition, especially regarding animals' limitations in this domain. Keywords Same-different. Relational judgments. Analogies. Explicit cognition. Comparative cognition Cognitive scientists have long focused on humans' ability to respond to abstract relations like sameness and difference (Wasserman & Young, 2010). James (1890/1950) described relational concepts as the backbone of thinking. Relational concepts underlie humans' analogical reasoning (Hummel & Holyoak, 2003). They mark cognitive-developmental change

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“…One day per week each monkey was paired with a socially compatible conspecific in an indoor-outdoor enclosure during which time monkeys did not participate in research projects but instead were free to engage in enrichment activities and interact with each other. When singly housed, monkeys had continuous access to a dedicated computer system for assessing various cognitive capacities (e.g., Agrillo, Parrish, & Beran, 2014; Beran, Evans, Klein, & Einstein, 2012; Beran & Parrish, 2013; Evans & Beran, 2012; Evans, Perdue, Parrish, & Beran, 2014; Smith, Coutinho, Church, & Beran, 2012; Smith, Flemming, Boomer, Beran, & Church, 2013). These test sessions typically lasted between four to six hours, and monkeys worked or rested at their own choosing throughout these sessions.…”

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Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) exhibit the decoy effect in a perceptual discrimination task

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The asymmetric dominance effect (or decoy effect) is a form of context-dependent choice bias in which the probability of choosing one of two options is impacted by the introduction of a third option, also known as the decoy. Decoy effects are documented widely within the human consumer choice literature and even extend to preference testing within nonhuman animals. Here, we extended this line of research to a perceptual discrimination task with rhesus monkeys to determine whether decoy stimuli would impact size judgments of rectangular stimuli. In a computerized task, monkeys attempted to choose the larger of two rectangles that varied in their size and orientation (horizontally or vertically oriented). In probe trials, a third stimulus (the decoy) was presented that was smaller than the other two rectangles but matched the orientation of one of them. Half of the probe trials presented a decoy that matched the orientation of the larger stimulus, and the other half presented a decoy that matched the orientation of the smaller stimulus. Monkeys rarely selected the decoy stimulus. However, their performance (selection of the largest rectangle) increased relative to the baseline trials (with only two choices) when the decoy was congruent in its orientation with the largest rectangle, but decreased relative to baseline when the decoy was incongruent with the largest rectangle. Thus, a decoy stimulus impacted monkeys’ perceptual choice behavior even when it was not a viable choice option itself. These results are explained with regard to comparative evaluation mechanisms.

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Fading perceptual resemblance: A path for rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) to conceptual matching?

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Breaking the perceptual-conceptual barrier: Relational matching and working memory

Breaking the perceptual-conceptual barrier: Relational matching and working memory

Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) exhibit the decoy effect in a perceptual discrimination task

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