{"id":1788,"date":"2011-02-22T19:35:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T02:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/blog\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2011-02-22T19:58:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T02:58:13","slug":"a-monkey-could-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/2011\/a-monkey-could-do-that\/","title":{"rendered":"A Monkey Can Do That?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"bbc.co.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/hi\/earth_news\/newsid_9401000\/9401945.stm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1789 alignleft\" title=\"oldworldmonkey\" src=\"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/oldworldmonkey.douclangur.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By Joanna Zelman:<\/em> Professor John David Smith and Michael Beran trained macaques, which are of the\u00a0<a title=\"bbc.co.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/nature\/life\/Old_World_monkey\" target=\"_blank\">Old World<\/a> group (native to Africa, Asia, and Europe), to play a computer game where if they got an answer right, they received a treat. A wrong answer meant no treat, but a brief pause before the next question. But there was a third option &#8212; the question mark. By selecting the question mark, the screen skipped the present question, considered too hard, and moved on to the next.<\/p>\n<p>The macaques responded in the exact same way as humans &#8212; the monkeys chose to skip the tricky questions.\u00a0Meanwhile, Dr. Smith told the\u00a0<a title=\"bbc.co.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/hi\/earth_news\/newsid_9401000\/9401945.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>, &#8220;Monkeys apparently appreciate when they are likely to make an error&#8230; They seem to know when they don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"huffingtonpost.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/02\/22\/monkeys-self-doubt-awareness_n_826115.html\" target=\"_blank\">Article<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joanna Zelman: Professor John David Smith and Michael Beran trained macaques, which are of the\u00a0Old World group (native to Africa, Asia, and Europe), to play a computer game where if they got an answer right, they received a treat. A wrong answer meant no treat, but a brief pause before the next question. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271],"tags":[28,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}