Spontaneous transfer of matching by infant chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
Four infant chimpanzees learned a matching-to-sample task when only two training stimuli were used. They then spontaneously transferred the matching concept to novel items, including three-dimensional objects and fabric swatches, without any experimenter-provided differential feedback. These results support the view that the matching concept is broadly construed by chimpanzees from the beginning and does not depend upon explicit training.
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Department of Psychology, La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141.
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D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D003210:Concept Formation; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D008297:Male; D002679:Pan troglodytes; D014163:Transfer, Psychology