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  • Comparative Cognition
  • Animal Behavior
  • Cognitive Psychology

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  • Abstract concept learning is fundamental to cognition.
  • Understanding species-specific memory mechanisms is crucial.
  • Proactive interference and list memory are key cognitive functions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To train diverse species on the abstract concept of same/different.
  • To investigate proactive interference and list memory across species.
  • To compare cognitive and memory capabilities in animals and humans.

Main Methods:

  • Progressive training with an increasing set of visual stimuli (8 to 1,024 pictures).
  • Testing novel-stimulus transfer and concept learning across species (monkeys, pigeons, corvids).
  • Manipulating delays in same/different and list memory tasks to assess interference and memory effects.

Main Results:

  • All species learned the same/different concept; monkeys and corvids learned faster than pigeons.
  • Pigeons showed delay-dependent proactive interference, unlike rhesus monkeys (event-based interference).
  • List memory tasks revealed recency effects at short delays and primacy effects at long delays across species.

Conclusions:

  • The abstract same/different task effectively probes cognitive and memory differences across species.
  • Species-specific strategies for managing proactive interference and list memory were observed.
  • Findings offer insights into comparative cognition, evolutionary psychology, and future research avenues.