Don't look back on failure: spontaneous uncertainty monitoring in chimpanzees.

IF 1.9 4区 心理学 Q3 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Learning & Behavior Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Epub Date: 2023-03-23 DOI:10.3758/s13420-023-00581-5
Masaki Tomonaga, Yoshiki Kurosawa, Yuri Kawaguchi, Hiroya Takiyama
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Abstract

During computer-controlled cognitive tasks, chimpanzees often look up at the food dispenser, which activates at the same time as feedback for the correct choice but not for feedback for the incorrect choice. Do these "looking back" behaviors also indicate signs of spontaneous monitoring of their confidence in their choices? To address this question, we delayed the feedback for 1 s after their choice responses and observed their look-back behaviors during the delay period. Two chimpanzees looked up at the food dispenser significantly less frequently when their choice was incorrect (but the feedback was not given) than when it was correct. These look-back behaviors have not been explicitly trained under experimental contexts. Therefore, these results indicate that chimpanzees spontaneously change the frequency of their look-back behaviors in response to the correctness or incorrectness of their own choices, even without external feedback, suggesting that their look-back behaviors may reflect the level of "confidence" or "uncertainty" of their responses immediately before.

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不要回首失败:黑猩猩自发的不确定性监测。
在计算机控制的认知任务中,黑猩猩经常抬头看食物分配器,食物分配器在黑猩猩做出正确选择的反馈时同时启动,但在黑猩猩做出错误选择的反馈时却不启动。这些 "回头看 "行为是否也表明黑猩猩在自发地监测它们对自己选择的信心?为了解决这个问题,我们在黑猩猩做出选择反应后延迟 1 秒钟才发出反馈,并观察它们在延迟期间的回望行为。两只黑猩猩在选择错误(但没有反馈)时抬头看食物分配器的次数明显少于选择正确时。这些回望行为并没有在实验情境下进行过明确的训练。因此,这些结果表明,即使在没有外部反馈的情况下,黑猩猩也会根据自己选择的正确与否自发地改变回视行为的频率,这表明黑猩猩的回视行为可能反映了它们之前做出的反应的 "自信 "或 "不确定 "程度。
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Learning & Behavior
Learning & Behavior 医学-动物学
CiteScore
2.90
自引率
5.60%
发文量
50
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Learning & Behavior publishes experimental and theoretical contributions and critical reviews concerning fundamental processes of learning and behavior in nonhuman and human animals. Topics covered include sensation, perception, conditioning, learning, attention, memory, motivation, emotion, development, social behavior, and comparative investigations.
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