Fagot Joël
Brain and Language Institute, Aix-Marseille University, 3 place Victor Hugo, 13331, Marseille, France.
Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, 3 place Victor Hugo, 13331, Marseille, France.
Learn Behav. 2017 Sep;45(3):209-210. doi: 10.3758/s13420-017-0267-0.
Two recent studies have shown that pigeons and baboons can discriminate written English words from nonwords, and these findings were interpreted as demonstrating that orthographic processing is possible in absence of linguistic knowledge. Here, I emphasize a different idea, which is that these studies also inform comparative psychologists on the evolutionary history of statistical learning in nonhuman animals, and on its pervasiveness and flexibility.
最近的两项研究表明，鸽子和狒狒能够区分书面英语单词和非单词，这些发现被解释为表明在没有语言知识的情况下也可以进行正字法加工。在此，我强调一个不同的观点，即这些研究也让比较心理学家了解了非人类动物统计学习的进化史，以及其普遍性和灵活性。
