Apes’ tracking of objects and collections

Cacchione, Trix; Hrubesch, Christine; Call, Josep (2014). Apes’ tracking of objects and collections. Swiss journal of psychology, 73(1), pp. 47-52. Huber 10.1024/1421-0185/a000120

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Recent research suggests that great apes are less vulnerable to cohesion violations than human infants are. In contrast to human infants, apes successfully track nonsolid substances or split solid objects through occlusion (Cacchione & Call, 2010a; Cacchione, Hrubesch, & Call, 2012, 2013). The present study aims to investigate whether the lower vulnerability of great apes to cohesion violations also manifests when they are tracking collections. While even very young human infants appreciate the continuous existence of solid bound objects, they fail to show similar intuitions when tracking collections of objects (Chiang & Wynn, 2000). In a manual search task inspired by recent infant research, we tested whether humans’ closest relatives, the great apes, showed a similar contrast in their reasoning about single solid objects and objects within collections. The results suggest that, in contrast to human infants, great apes appreciate the continuous existence of objects within collections and successfully track them through occlusion. This confirms the view that great apes are generally less vulnerable to cohesion violations than human infants.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Developmental Psychology

UniBE Contributor:

Cacchione, Beatrix, Hrubesch, Christine

Subjects:

100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology

ISSN:

1421-0185

Publisher:

Huber

Funders:

[4] Swiss National Science Foundation

Projects:

[UNSPECIFIED] Core knowledge revisited: Effects of fission, fusion and shape transformation on infants’ ability to represent inanimate and animate objects

Language:

English

Submitter:

Sufi Abbaspour Chinjani

Date Deposited:

21 Apr 2015 13:43

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:45

Publisher DOI:

10.1024/1421-0185/a000120

Uncontrolled Keywords:

objects, collections, continuity, comparative research

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.67028

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/67028

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