Acquisition and Use of Mathematical Skills by a Linguistic Chimpanzee

摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview of acquisition and use mathematical skills by a linguistic chimpanzee. As summer, 1976, Lana has demonstrated her competence in answering more less questions directed toward discrete numbers variable sizes washers. surface area mass were randomly varied the selection washers on any trial, was only consistently rewarded for correctly labeling number. Lana's high test performance at 89% level also suggested that number cue to which she responding, especially as errors occurred ratios with large or very similar component portions. The results from two control tests further making responses based Future research includes teaching names precise ordinal relationships involved among 1–10. It is conceivable mental manipulation terms summing (addition) might already be repertoire skills. If it not, probable such operations addition, subtraction, intersection can taught these have their correlates environmental actions operations. language project chimpanzee, may possible delimit meanings addition intersection.