Fiorito G, Biederman G B, Davey V A, Gherardi F
Laboratorio di Neurobiologia, Stazione Zoologica "A. Dohrn" di Napoli, Villa Communale, I-80121, Napoli, Italy.
Anim Cogn. 1998 Oct;1(2):107-12. doi: 10.1007/s100710050015.
Octopus vulgaris is able to open transparent glass jars closed with plastic plugs and containing live crabs. The decrease in performance times for removing the plug and seizing the prey with increasing experience of the task has been taken to indicate learning. However, octopuses' attack behaviors are typically slow and variable in novel environmental situations. In this study the role of preexposure to selected features of the problem-solving context was investigated. Although octopuses failed to benefit from greater familiarity with the training context or with selected elements of the task of solving the jar problem, the methodological strategies used are instructive in potentially clarifying the role of complex problem-solving behaviors in this species including stimulus preexposure and social learning.
普通章鱼能够打开用塑料塞封闭且装有活蟹的透明玻璃罐。随着执行任务经验的增加，移除塞子并抓住猎物的操作时间减少，这被视为学习的表现。然而，在新的环境中，章鱼的攻击行为通常缓慢且多变。在本研究中，调查了预先接触解决问题情境的特定特征所起的作用。尽管章鱼未能从对训练情境或解决罐子问题任务的特定元素更熟悉中获益，但所采用的方法策略对于潜在地阐明这种复杂解决问题行为在该物种中的作用具有指导意义，包括刺激预暴露和社会学习。
