論文

査読有り 筆頭著者 責任著者
2017年1月1日

Causal capture effects in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Cognition
  • Toyomi Matsuno
  • ,
  • Masaki Tomonaga

158
開始ページ
153
終了ページ
164
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1016/j.cognition.2016.10.023
出版者・発行元
Elsevier B.V.

Extracting a cause-and-effect structure from the physical world is an important demand for animals living in dynamically changing environments. Human perceptual and cognitive mechanisms are known to be sensitive and tuned to detect and interpret such causal structures. In contrast to rigorous investigations of human causal perception, the phylogenetic roots of this perception are not well understood. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the susceptibility of nonhuman animals to mechanical causality by testing whether chimpanzees perceived an illusion called causal capture (Scholl &amp
Nakayama, 2002). Causal capture is a phenomenon in which a type of bistable visual motion of objects is perceived as causal collision due to a bias from a co-occurring causal event. In our experiments, we assessed the susceptibility of perception of a bistable stream/bounce motion event to a co-occurring causal event in chimpanzees. The results show that, similar to in humans, causal “bounce” percepts were significantly increased in chimpanzees with the addition of a task-irrelevant causal bounce event that was synchronously presented. These outcomes suggest that the perceptual mechanisms behind the visual interpretation of causal structures in the environment are evolutionarily shared between human and nonhuman animals.


リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.10.023
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27835786
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000390515000014&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.10.023
  • ISSN : 1873-7838
  • ISSN : 0010-0277
  • eISSN : 1873-7838
  • PubMed ID : 27835786
  • SCOPUS ID : 84994552810
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000390515000014

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