Inference by exclusion in the red-tailed black cockatoo(Calyptorhynchus banksii)
作者机构:School of PsychologyJames Cook UniversityCairnsAustralia School of PsychologyUniversity of NewcastleCallaghanAustralia
出 版 物:《Integrative Zoology》 (整合动物学(英文版))
年 卷 期:2019年第14卷第2期
页 面:193-203页
核心收录:
学科分类:0710[理学-生物学] 0711[理学-系统科学] 07[理学] 0905[农学-畜牧学] 08[工学] 0906[农学-兽医学] 081101[工学-控制理论与控制工程] 0811[工学-控制科学与工程] 071102[理学-系统分析与集成] 081103[工学-系统工程]
主 题:cognition comparative cognition inferential reasoning parrot cognition Psittaciforms
摘 要:Inference by exclusion is the ability to select a given option by excluding the *** designed appropriately,tests of this ability can reveal choices that cannot be explained by associative *** the past decade,exclusion reasoning has been explored in several non-human taxonomic groups,including birds,mainly in Corvids and *** increase our understanding of the taxonomic distribution of exclusion reasoning and,therefore,its evolution,we investigated exclusion performances in red-tailed black cockatoos(Calyptorhynchus banksii),an Australian relative of the Goffin cockatoo(Cacatua goffini),using a food-finding ***atoos were required to find a food item hidden in 1 of the 2 experimenter’s *** training sessions in which they reliably selected the closed baited hand they had just been shown open,each individual was tested on 4 different *** to demonstrating exclusion reasoning was the condition in which they were shown the empty hand and then offered a choice of both closed *** performance of all birds was above chance on all experimental conditions but not on an olfactory and/or cuing control *** results suggest that the birds might be able to infer by exclusion,although an explanation based on rule learning cannot be *** first experiment in red-tailed black cockatoo highlights the potential of this species as a model to study avian cognition and paves the pathway for future investigations.