Itakura S
Department of Communication, Oita Prefectural College of Arts and Culture, Japan.
J Gen Psychol. 1994 Jul;121(3):189-97. doi: 10.1080/00221309.1994.9921195.
The ability of a chimpanzee to recognize individuals portrayed in line drawings was evaluated. A 12-year-old female chimpanzee with extensive prior experience in the use of visual symbols matched the line drawings of chimpanzees, humans, and an orangutan with a specific letter of the alphabet. When a line drawing of a familiar individual was presented on the computer screen, the chimpanzee responded by punching a key with the letter of the alphabet that corresponded to the individual's name. Results indicate that the chimpanzee is able to categorize individuals from novel line-drawing representations.
对一只黑猩猩识别线条画中所描绘个体的能力进行了评估。一只12岁的雌性黑猩猩，此前在使用视觉符号方面有丰富经验，它将黑猩猩、人类和一只猩猩的线条画与字母表中的特定字母进行了匹配。当电脑屏幕上出现熟悉个体的线条画时，这只黑猩猩会通过按下与该个体名字对应的字母键来做出反应。结果表明，这只黑猩猩能够从新颖的线条画表征中对个体进行分类。
