杜克大学心理学和神经科学教授伊利莎白·布兰农,是最初给猴子做这种实验的科学家之一,对结果感到非常惊讶。“它们的表现竟和猴子一样。” 她说。
Score one for the birds. The pigeons had learned an abstract rule: peck images on a screen in order, lower numbers to higher。
给鸟类记上一分吧。鸽子已学会了一条抽象规则:按照数量从少到多的顺序轻啄屏幕上的图像。
It may have taken a year of training, with different shapes, sizes and colors of items, always in groups of one, two or three, but all that work paid off when it was time for higher math。
训练时每组图像都包含一个、两个或三个形状、大小、颜色各异的物品。这样的训练可能需要一年,但是等它们学习复杂点儿的数学时,就会发现这些付出是值得的。
Given groups of six and nine, they could pick, or peck, the images in the right order. This is one more bit of evidence of how smart birds really are, and it is intriguing because the pigeons’ performance was so similar to the monkeys’. “I was surprised,” Dr. Scarf said。
给它们几组包含六个和九个物品的图像,它们也能按正确顺序挑选或轻啄图像,证明了鸟类的确很聪明。这很耐人寻味,因为鸽子的表现和猴子的表现不相上下。“我很吃惊。”斯卡夫博士说。
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