2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Comparative cognitive development in primates including human assessed by object manipulation
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23700313
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Cognitive science
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | チンパンジー / オランウータン / 認知発達 / 物の操作 / 道具使用 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Cognitive development in humans and great apes was assessed and directly compared by focusing on the patterns of object manipulation. The performance of chimpanzees was comparable to that of humans in the domain of physical intelligence. However, human children showed higher level of competence in the tasks requiring social referencing and completing the missing parts. The present research succeeded to gain fundamental data on comparative cognitive development in humans and four species of great apes by combining methodologies of cognitive experiments in captivity and behavioral observation in the wild.
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| Free Research Field |
比較認知発達
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