Fiset S, Doré F Y
Department of Psychology, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process. 1996 Oct;22(4):420-37. doi: 10.1037//0097-7403.22.4.420.
Four experiments were performed to identify the spatial information that cats used to encode the position of an object they saw move and disappear. In Experiment 1 and 2, several sources of allocentric spatial information were manipulated. Results indicated that the cats used none of these sources and instead relied primarily on their own spatial coordinates (pure egocentric information) to locate the hidden object. In Experiment 3 and 4, pure egocentric information was made unreliable by a detour task. Results showed that the cats encoded a metric source of allocentric spatial information--the relationship between the walls of the room and the hiding place. Together, these results reveal that cats' encoding of spatial information is flexible and adapted to various kinds of situations that can be encountered in the natural environment.
进行了四项实验，以确定猫用来编码它们看到移动并消失的物体位置的空间信息。在实验1和实验2中，对几种非自我中心空间信息来源进行了操控。结果表明，猫没有使用这些来源中的任何一种，而是主要依靠自身的空间坐标（纯粹的自我中心信息）来定位隐藏的物体。在实验3和实验4中，通过迂回任务使纯粹的自我中心信息变得不可靠。结果显示，猫编码了一种非自我中心空间信息的度量来源——房间墙壁与隐藏处之间的关系。这些结果共同表明，猫对空间信息的编码是灵活的，并能适应自然环境中可能遇到的各种情况。
