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      Relative numerousness judgment and summation in young and old Western lowland gorillas.

      Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983)
      Aging, psychology, Animals, Choice Behavior, Conditioning, Operant, Discrimination Learning, Female, Gorilla gorilla, Judgment, Male, Mathematics, Motivation, Practice (Psychology), Problem Solving, Reaction Time

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          The relationship between age, relative numerousness judgment, and summation was investigated in 11 Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). Experiments 1 and 2 evaluated the gorillas' ability to select the larger of 2 food quantities before and with training. The majority of gorillas did not reliably select the larger quantity in Experiment 1 until receiving training to do so in Experiment 2. Experiment 3 evaluated their ability to select the larger of 2 pairs of quantities. All gorillas selected the larger pair more often than chance, and the old were less accurate and slower than were the young. For most gorillas, performance in relative numerousness judgment with training and summation was comparable with previous reports in chimpanzees and orangutans. Copyright 2005 APA, all rights reserved.

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