University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Department of Interdisciplinary Life Sciences.
J Comp Psychol. 2023 Nov;137(4):209-211. doi: 10.1037/com0000372.
Prikrylová et al. (see record 2023-79461-001) contribute a paper to this issue in which they tested two-dimensional individual recognition of familiar subjects in African gray parrots. They not only tested familiar individual recognition per se but also the effect of manipulating individual and combined features in the head and the body of their stimuli. Notably, instead of using discrimination tasks, which have previously been applied in bird studies (e.g., Hauser & Huber-Eicher, 2004; Nakamura et al., 2003; Watanabe & Ito, 1990), they went through great effort applying a matching-to-sample approach. This is particularly important as it allows for testing familiar conspecific recognition on a more conceptual level than a discrimination task. Moreover, it facilitates the comparison with previous work done on primates (e.g., Micheletta et al., 2015; Parr et al., 2000, 2006; Talbot et al., 2016). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
普里克里洛娃等人（见记录 2023-79461-001）在本期发表的一篇论文中测试了非洲灰鹦鹉对熟悉个体的二维个体识别。他们不仅测试了熟悉的个体识别本身，还测试了在刺激物的头部和身体中操纵个体和组合特征的效果。值得注意的是，他们没有像之前在鸟类研究中应用的辨别任务（例如，豪泽和胡贝尔-艾歇尔，2004；中岛等人，2003；渡边和伊托，1990），而是费力地应用了匹配样本方法。这一点特别重要，因为它允许在比辨别任务更具概念性的水平上测试熟悉的同种识别。此外，它便于与之前在灵长类动物上进行的研究进行比较（例如，米切莱塔等人，2015；帕尔等人，2000 年，2006 年；塔尔博特等人，2016 年）。（《心理科学信息数据库》记录（c）2023 APA，保留所有权利）。
