Goulet S, Doré F Y, Lehotkay R
Université Laval, Québec, Canada. sonia/ln.nimh.nih.gov
Q J Exp Psychol B. 1996 Feb;49(1):81-92. doi: 10.1080/713932612.
Cats saw an object appear and disappear at two successive locations; the movement of the object from one location to the other was not perceived but was indicated by indirect cues and the two disappearances were separated by a 0-sec or a 20-sec interval. Performance was poorer with the 0-sec than with the 20-sec interval. With the 0-sec interval, the percentages of search attempts made at the object's initial and final hiding locations did not differ whereas with the 20-sec interval, more search attempts were made at the final than at the initial location. These results provide additional support to Goulet, Doré and Rousseau's (1994) interpretation of cats' search behaviour in terms of activation of spatial locations in working memory.
猫看到一个物体在两个连续的位置出现和消失；物体从一个位置移动到另一个位置的过程未被察觉，但由间接线索表明，且两次消失之间间隔0秒或20秒。间隔0秒时的表现比间隔20秒时差。在间隔0秒时，在物体初始和最终隐藏位置进行搜索尝试的百分比没有差异，而在间隔20秒时，在最终位置进行的搜索尝试比在初始位置更多。这些结果为古莱、多雷和卢梭（1994年）根据工作记忆中空间位置的激活对猫的搜索行为所做的解释提供了更多支持。
