Spontaneous transfer of matching by infant chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior ProcessesPublished 1 January 1988
David L. Oden, Roger K. R. Thompson, David Premack
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Four infant chimpanzees learned a matching-to-sample task when only two training stimuli were used and spontaneously transferred the matching concept to novel items, including three-dimensional objects and fabric swatches, without any experimenter-provided differential feedback.
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Four infant chimpanzees learned a matching-to-sample task when only two training stimuli were used. They then spontaneously transferred the matching concept to novel items, including three-dimensional objects and fabric swatches, without any experimenter-provided differential feedback. These results support the view that the matching concept is broadly construed by chimpanzees from the beginning and does not depend upon explicit training.
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