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Capuchin and rhesus monkeys but not humans show cognitive flexibility in an optional-switch task

Learned rules help us accurately solve many problems, but by blindly following a strategy, we sometimes fail to find more efficient alternatives. Previous research found that humans are more susceptible to this “cognitive set” bias than other primates in a nonverbal computer task. We modified the ta...

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Autores principales: Watzek, Julia, Pope, Sarah M., Brosnan, Sarah F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6744456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31519948
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49658-0