Filion C M, Washburn D A, Gulledge J P
University of Georgia, USA.
J Comp Psychol. 1996 Dec;110(4):386-95. doi: 10.1037/0735-7036.110.4.386.
Four experiments were conducted to assess whether or not rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) could represent the unperceived movements of a stimulus. Subjects were tested on 2 computerized tasks, HOLE (monkeys) and LASER (humans and monkeys), in which subjects needed to chase or shoot at, respectively, a moving target that either remained visible or became invisible for a portion of its path of movement. Response patterns were analyzed and compared between target-visible and target-invisible conditions. Results of Experiments 1, 2, and 3 demonstrated that the monkeys are capable of extrapolating movement. That this extrapolation involved internal representation of the target's invisible movement was suggested but not confirmed. Experiment 4, however, demonstrated that the monkeys are capable of representing the invisible displacements of a stimulus.
进行了四项实验，以评估恒河猴（猕猴）是否能够表征刺激的未被感知的运动。在两项计算机化任务中对受试者进行了测试，分别是HOLE（猴子）和LASER（人类和猴子），在这些任务中，受试者需要分别追逐或射击一个移动目标，该目标在其运动路径的一部分时间内要么保持可见，要么变得不可见。分析并比较了目标可见和目标不可见条件下的反应模式。实验1、2和3的结果表明，猴子能够推断运动。有人提出，但未得到证实的是，这种推断涉及目标不可见运动的内部表征。然而，实验4表明，猴子能够表征刺激的不可见位移。
