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    "pk": 31710,
    "title": "Increases in Cognitive Flexibility over Development and Evolution: Candidate Mechanisms",
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    "abstract": "Chimpanzees, monkeys and rats are\ndisoriented, they reorient themselves using\ngeometrical features of their environment\n(Tinkelpaugh, 1932; Cheng, 1986; Margules &\nGallistel, 1988) In rats this ability appears to be\nmodular, impervious to nongeometric information\n(e.g. distinctive colors and odors) marking\nimportant locations (Cheng, 1986; Margules &\nGallistel, 1988) I tested young children and adults\nin an orientation task similar to that used with rats\n(Hermer & Speike, under revievyr) Whereas adults\nreadily used both geometric and nongeometric\ninformation to orient themselves, young children,\nlike rats, used only geometric information. These\nfindings provided the first evidence that humans,\nlike many other mammals , orient by using\nenvironmental shape; that the young child's\norientation system, like that of rats, is\ninformationaily encapsulated (Fodor, 1983); and\nthat in humans the apparent modularity of this\nsystem is overcome during development",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Submitted Presentations",
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        {
            "first_name": "Linda",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Hermer",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Cornell University",
            "department": ""
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1993-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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