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Ansgar D. Endress Sarah Carden Elisabetta Versace Marc D. Hauser 《Animal cognition》2010,13(3):483-495
A wide variety of organisms produce actions and signals in particular temporal sequences, including the motor actions recruited
during tool-mediated foraging, the arrangement of notes in the songs of birds, whales and gibbons, and the patterning of words
in human speech. To accurately reproduce such events, the elements that comprise such sequences must be memorized. Both memory
and artificial language learning studies have revealed at least two mechanisms for memorizing sequences, one tracking co-occurrence
statistics among items in sequences (i.e., transitional probabilities) and the other one tracking the positions of items in sequences, in particular those of items in sequence-edges. The latter mechanism seems to dominate the encoding
of sequences after limited exposure, and to be recruited by a wide array of grammatical phenomena. To assess whether humans
differ from other species in their reliance on one mechanism over the other after limited exposure, we presented chimpanzees
(Pan troglodytes) and human adults with brief exposure to six items, auditory sequences. Each sequence consisted of three distinct sound types
(X, A, B), arranged according to two simple temporal rules: the A item always preceded the B item, and the sequence-edges
were always occupied by the X item. In line with previous results with human adults, both species primarily encoded positional
information from the sequences; that is, they kept track of the items that occurred in the sequence-edges. In contrast, the
sensitivity to co-occurrence statistics was much weaker. Our results suggest that a mechanism to spontaneously encode positional
information from sequences is present in both chimpanzees and humans and may represent the default in the absence of training
and with brief exposure. As many grammatical regularities exhibit properties of this mechanism, it may be recruited by language
and constrain the form that certain grammatical regularities take. 相似文献
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Quantity discrimination is adaptive in a variety of ecological contexts and different taxa discriminate stimuli differing
in numerousness, both in the wild and in laboratory settings. Quantity discrimination between object arrays has been suggested
to be more demanding than between food arrays but, to our knowledge, the same paradigm has never been used to directly compare
them. We investigated to what extent capuchin monkeys’ relative numerousness judgments (RNJs) with food and token are alike.
Tokens are inherently non-valuable objects that acquire an associative value upon exchange with the experimenter. Our aims
were (1) to assess capuchins’ RNJs with food (Experiment 1) and with tokens (Experiment 2) by presenting all the possible
pair-wise choices between one to five items, and (2) to evaluate on which of the two proposed non-verbal mechanisms underlying
quantity discrimination (analogue magnitude and object file system) capuchins relied upon. In both conditions capuchins reliably
selected the larger amount of items, although their performance was higher with food than with tokens. The influence of the
ratio between arrays on performance indicates that capuchins relied on the same system for numerical representation, namely
analogue magnitude, regardless of the type of stimuli (food or tokens) and across both the small and large number ranges. 相似文献
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Aversive memory reactivation engages in the amygdala only some neurotransmitters involved in consolidation
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Bucherelli C Baldi E Mariottini C Passani MB Blandina P 《Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)》2006,13(4):426-430
Consolidation refers to item stabilization in long-term memory. Retrieval renders a consolidated memory sensitive, and a "reconsolidation" process has been hypothesized to keep the original memory persistent. Some authors could not detect this phenomenon. Here we show that retrieved contextual fear memory is vulnerable to amnesic treatments and that the amygdala is critically involved. Cholinergic and histaminergic systems seem to modulate only consolidation, whereas cannabinoids are involved in both consolidation and reactivation. The lability of retrieved memory affords opportunities to treat disorders such as phobias, post-traumatic stress, or chronic pain, and these results help searching for appropriate therapeutic targets. 相似文献
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Wild capuchin monkeys select stone tools to crack open nuts on the basis of their weight and friability, two non-visual functional
properties. Here, we investigated whether they would select new stick-like tools on the basis of their rigidity. In Experiment
1, subjects faced an out-of-reach reward and a choice of three unfamiliar tools differing in color, diameter, material, and
rigidity. In order to retrieve the reward, capuchins needed to select the rigid tool exemplar. Capuchins gathered information
regarding tools’ pliability either by (1) manipulating the tools themselves (manipulation condition), (2) observing a human
demonstrator repeatedly bending the tools (observation condition), or (3) seeing the tools placed on a platform without any
manipulation taking place (visual static condition). Subjects selected the rigid tool above chance levels in both the manipulation
and observation conditions, but not in the visual static condition. In Experiment 2, subjects needed to select and use a flexible
tool to access a liquid reward (as opposed to the rigid tool, as in previous experiment). Again, capuchins selected above
chance levels the appropriate tool (i.e., flexible), thus demonstrating a good appreciation of the relation between the tool
properties and the task requirements. 相似文献
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Many pre-school children show closing-in behaviour (CIB) in graphic copying tasks: a tendency to place their copy abnormally
close to or even on top of the model. Similar phenomena have been studied in patients with dementia, though it is unclear
whether the superficial similarities between CIB in development and dementia reflect common underlying cognitive mechanisms.
The aim of the present study was to investigate the cognitive functions involved in CIB in pre-school children. Forty-one
children (3–5 years) were assessed for CIB, and completed a neuropsychological battery targeting visuospatial abilities, short
term memory (verbal and spatial) and attention (sustained attention, selective attention and attention switching). Binary
logistic regression found that performance on the attention subtests was the best unique predictor of CIB. A second analysis,
in which the three attention subtests were entered as separate predictors, suggested that attention switching ability was
most strongly related to CIB. These results support the view that CIB in children reflects inadequate attentional control.
The convergence of these results with similar observations in patients with dementia further suggests that similar cognitive
factors underlie CIB in these two populations. 相似文献
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Spatial neglect is a common neurological syndrome in which awareness of contralesional space is disrupted after unilateral (typically right) stroke. Although most research has focused on visual aspects of neglect, there is increasing evidence that neglect can often be multisensory. Here we focus on auditory disturbances that can co-occur with visual neglect. Patients selected for showing visual neglect often also show deficits in localization of single sounds; and also in the detection or identification of contralesional sounds, particularly in the presence of an ipsilesional competitor. Moreover, auditory and visual aspects of neglect often correlate in their severity across patients. These results are considered in relation to recent neuroimaging findings in the normal brain, showing that the brain regions typically damaged in neglect patients might contain multimodal representations of space. 相似文献
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Multisensory-mediated auditory localization 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Multisensory integration is a powerful mechanism for maximizing sensitivity to sensory events. We examined its effects on auditory localization in healthy human subjects. The specific objective was to test whether the relative intensity and location of a seemingly irrelevant visual stimulus would influence auditory localization in accordance with the inverse effectiveness and spatial rules of multisensory integration that have been developed from neurophysiological studies with animals [Stein and Meredith, 1993 The Merging of the Senses (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press)]. Subjects were asked to localize a sound in one condition in which a neutral visual stimulus was either above threshold (supra-threshold) or at threshold. In both cases the spatial disparity of the visual and auditory stimuli was systematically varied. The results reveal that stimulus salience is a critical factor in determining the effect of a neutral visual cue on auditory localization. Visual bias and, hence, perceptual translocation of the auditory stimulus appeared when the visual stimulus was supra-threshold, regardless of its location. However, this was not the case when the visual stimulus was at threshold. In this case, the influence of the visual cue was apparent only when the two cues were spatially coincident and resulted in an enhancement of stimulus localization. These data suggest that the brain uses multiple strategies to integrate multisensory information. 相似文献
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Giovanni Maria Ruggiero Maria Chiara Benzi Francesca Boccalari Elisabetta Caletti Gabriele Caselli Antonio Di Tucci Francesca Fiore Rawezh Ibrahim Sara Marsero Elena Moioli Elena Ponzio Walter Sapuppo Diego Sarracino Marco Telesca Sara Zizak Sandra Sassaroli 《Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy》2017,35(3):240-253
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and Metacognitive Therapy (MCT) models show both similarities and differences in conceptualizing anxiety. This work assumes that REBT’s irrational and MCT’s metacognitive beliefs play a mediation role while CBT’s disorder specific content beliefs act as triggers. This hypothesis is tested using a regression model in which metacognitive and irrational beliefs play a mediation role while content disorder beliefs are independent variables. This paper applied this model to generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), a psychiatric diagnosis in which anxiety is the major feature. In GAD, the specific content beliefs are negative problem orientation and intolerance of uncertainty. Therefore, 149 non clinical subjects completed 4 self-report questionnaires: the Negative Orientation to the Problems Questionnaire and the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale as measures for content cognitive beliefs, the Attitudes and Beliefs Scale for irrational beliefs, and the Metacognitive Questionnaire 30 Items Version for metacognitive beliefs. The generalized anxiety disorder questionnaire was chosen in order to measure anxiety as dependent variable. Regression analyses confirmed that irrational and metacognitive beliefs mediate the relation between cognitive content beliefs and GAD. We clinically interpret mediation as a second level regulation. 相似文献
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The relationship between US (footshock) intensity and the two conditioned freezing responses (to acoustic CS and to "context") was investigated in fear conditioning. Administered footshock intensity was 0.00, 0.15, 0.30, 0.60, 0.90, and 1.20 mA to six different groups of 70-day-old male Albino Wistar rats. To measure contextual freezing, the animals were again placed inside the conditioning apparatus without acoustic CS and US presentation. To measure acoustic CS freezing, the animals were placed in a totally different apparatus and only the acoustic CS was presented. The 0.15 mA footshock intensity was not sufficient to condition the animals, in fact no freezing was exhibited as in the non-shocked control group. The 0.30 mA footshock intensity was sufficient only to condition the animals to the acoustic CS, whereas the 0.60 mA was sufficient to condition the animals both to acoustic CS and to context. Footshock intensities (0.90 and 1.20 mA) did not elicit any significant increase in conditioned freezing for either acoustic CS or context but at the highest one the generalization phenomenon appeared (freezing in the different context before presentation of acoustic CS). Acoustic CS freezing to all over-threshold intensities was longer than that to context. In conclusion, freezing responses to acoustic CS and context after increasing footshock intensities follow distinct patterns, and intermediate footshock intensities (0.60 and 0.90 mA) appear to be the most useful for eliciting conditioned freezing responses to acoustic CS and to context without inducing a generalized fear status contamination. 相似文献
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The perception of tactile stimuli on the face is modulated if subjects concurrently observe a face being touched; this effect is termed "visual remapping of touch" or the VRT effect. Given the high social value of this mechanism, we investigated whether it might be modulated by specific key information processed in face-to-face interactions: facial emotional expression. In two separate experiments, participants received tactile stimuli, near the perceptual threshold, either on their right, left, or both cheeks. Concurrently, they watched several blocks of movies depicting a face with a neutral, happy, or fearful expression that was touched or just approached by human fingers (Experiment 1). Participants were asked to distinguish between unilateral and bilateral felt tactile stimulation. Tactile perception was enhanced when viewing touch toward a fearful face compared with viewing touch toward the other two expressions. In order to test whether this result can be generalized to other negative emotions or whether it is a fear-specific effect, we ran a second experiment, where participants watched movies of faces-touched or approached by fingers-with either a fearful or an angry expression (Experiment 2). In line with the first experiment, tactile perception was enhanced when subjects viewed touch toward a fearful face and not toward an angry face. Results of the present experiments are interpreted in light of different mechanisms underlying different emotions recognition, with a specific involvement of the somatosensory system when viewing a fearful expression and a resulting fear-specific modulation of the VRT effect. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). 相似文献