Thinking about order : a review of common processing of magnitude and learned orders in animals

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Rich behavioral and neurobiological evidence suggests cognitive and neural overlap in how quantitatively comparable dimensions such as quantity, time, and space are processed in humans and animals. While magnitude domains such as physical magnitude, time, and space represent information that can be quantitatively compared (4 "is half of" 8), they also represent information that can be organized ordinally (1→2→3→4). Recent evidence suggests that the common representations seen across physical magnitude, time, and space domains in humans may be due to their common ordinal features rather than their common quantitative features, as these common representations appear to extend beyond magnitude domains to include learned orders. In this review, we bring together separate lines of research on multiple ordinal domains including magnitude-based and learned orders in animals to explore the extent to which there is support for a common cognitive process underlying ordinal processing. Animals show similarities in performance patterns across natural quantitatively comparable ordered domains (physical magnitude, time, space, dominance) and learned orders (acquired through transitive inference or simultaneous chaining). Additionally, they show transfer and interference across tasks within and between ordinal domains that support the theory of a common ordinal representation across domains. This review provides some support for the development of a unified theory of ordinality and suggests areas for future research to better characterize the extent to which there are commonalities in cognitive processing of ordinal information generally.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:26

Enthalten in:

Animal cognition - 26(2023), 1 vom: 11. Jan., Seite 299-317

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gazes, Regina Paxton [VerfasserIn]
Templer, Victoria L [VerfasserIn]
Lazareva, Olga F [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Journal Article
Magnitude
Quantity
Review
Simultaneous chaining
Space
Time
Transitive inference

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Date Completed 30.01.2023

Date Revised 02.02.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s10071-022-01713-6

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM348829779