Inference by exclusion in the red-tailed black cockatoo(Calyptorhynchus banksii)

作     者：Lorraine SUBIAS. Andrea S.GRIFFIN David GUEZ 

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.