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Monkeys (Macaca Mulatta And Cebus Apella) And Human Adults And Children (Homo Sapiens) Enumerate And Compare Subsets Of Moving Stimuli Based On Numerosity, Michael J. Beran, Scott Decker, Allison Schwartz, Natasha Schultz

Language Research Center

Two monkey species (Macaca mulatta and Cebus apella) and human children and adults judged the numerousness of two subsets of moving stimuli on a computer screen. Two sets of colored dots that varied in number and size were intermixed in an array in which all dots moved in random directions and speeds. Participants had to indicate which dot color was more numerous within the array. All species performed at high and comparable levels, including on trials in which the subset with the larger number of items had a smaller total area of coloration. This indicated a similarity across species to …