Department of Psychology, Regional Primate Research Center, and Child Development and Mental Retardation Center, University of Washington, Seattle.
Department of Psychology, Lehman College, CUNY, Bronx, New York.
Am J Primatol. 1985;8(3):259-264. doi: 10.1002/ajp.1350080309.
Comparative studies of memory in monkey and human subjects suggest similarities in visual recognition memory across human and nonhuman primates. In order to investigate developmental aspects of visual recognition memory in monkey infants, the familiarization-novelty procedure, developed for use with human infants, was employed with pigtailed monkey infants to study long-delay recognition memory. Subjects were familiarized with a black-and-white abstract pattern. Twenty-four hours later they were tested with the familiar pattern paired with a novel one. Results indicated a significant visual preference for the novel stimulus, providing evidence for recognition memory. These results parallel those obtained with human infants, suggesting further similarities in the development of visual recognition memory.
对猴子和人类受试者的记忆比较研究表明，人类和非人类灵长类动物在视觉识别记忆方面存在相似性。为了研究猴子婴儿视觉识别记忆的发展方面，熟悉-新颖程序被用于长尾猕猴婴儿，以研究长时延迟识别记忆。在熟悉阶段，猴子婴儿会被展示一个黑白抽象图案。24 小时后，它们会被测试是否能识别出之前看过的熟悉图案和一个新的图案。结果表明，猴子婴儿对新刺激有明显的视觉偏好，这为识别记忆提供了证据。这些结果与人婴儿的研究结果相似，进一步表明了视觉识别记忆的发展过程存在相似性。
