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Peer reviewedSmith, J. David; And Others – Cognition, 1997
Compared tendencies of adults and rhesus monkeys to escape adaptively when uncertain. In a visual discrimination task using a threshold paradigm, humans and monkeys escaped trials in which they were uncertain of the stimulus. In a similar task with constant stimuli, some humans escaped adaptively, but one escaped infrequently and non-optimally,…
Descriptors: Adults, Ambiguity, Animal Behavior, Comparative Analysis
