{"pk":31710,"title":"Increases in Cognitive Flexibility over Development and Evolution: Candidate Mechanisms","subtitle":null,"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","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Submitted Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9wd9t9nn","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Linda","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hermer","name_suffix":"","institution":"Cornell University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1993-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31710/galley/22778/download/"}]}