哥伦比亚大学心理学系导师教师师资介绍简介-Herbert Terrace

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Herbert Terrace
Professor of Psychology

My Contact Info

418 Schermerhorn Hall

Lab Site

Primate Cognition Lab @ Columbia University

Office Hours

Tues & Thurs. 10:30?a.m. - 11:30?a.m.?or by?e-mail appointment

212 854 4544
[email protected]

Herbert Terrace

Research Interests

Animal Cognition
Cognitive Psychology
Evolution of Language

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1961

General Area of Research

Animal cognition; primate cognition; evolution of language

Current Research

The general focus of my research is the evolution of intelligence with specific emphasis on cognitive processes that do not require language. In my primate cognition lab, I have trained rhesus monkeys to learn various serial tasks involving arbitrary and numerical stimuli. For example, I have shown how monkeys can become expert at learning rote lists similar to those we perform daily when dialing a phone number or entering a password. Instead of responding to Arabic numerals the monkeys respond to photographs displayed on a touch sensitive video monitor.?
I also study how monkeys learn ascending and descending numerical sequences (e.g., 1-2-3-4, 4-5-6 or 6-5-4) and how they generalize their knowledge of specific numerosities to novel numerosities. In these experiments, stimuli are constructed from geometric elements and differ in the number of elements they contain.?
In other experiments I study social learning in situations where a student monkey learns a new list by observing an expert perform that list. More recently, I have applied a similar paradigm to study cognitive imitation in autistic children. Taken together, these experiments show that many complex skills can be performed without language and provide a basis for understanding what language adds to those skills.
Most recently I've written about the evolution of language, in particular, the evolution of the world. Separating the evolution of language into two problems, the origin of words and the origins of grammar makes an intractable problem more manageable. In infants, we have begun to understand how pre-verbal emotional and cognitive relations between an infant and her mother lead to the production of the infant's firs words. Among human ancestors, a case can be made that words were invented by Homo erectus.?Both types of word learning are discussed in my recent book, Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can (2019).

Courses Taught

Fall 2019
Evolution of Intelligence and Consciousness (Seminar) 3pts, UN3450
Spring 2020
Evolution of Cognition 3pts, UN2250
Evolution of Language 4pts, GU4242

Transitive Inference in Humans (Homo sapiens) and Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta) After Massed Training of the Last Two List Items

Terrace H. S.
Jensen, G
Mu?oz, F
Alkan, Y
Ferrera, VP

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哥伦比亚大学心理学系导师教师师资介绍简介-Herbert Terrace

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My Contact Info

Lab Site

Office Hours

Herbert Terrace

Research Interests

General Area of Research

Current Research

Courses Taught

Selected Publications

Transfer of a Serial Representation between Two Distinct Tasks by Rhesus Macaques

Monkeys would rather see and do: Preference for agentic control in rhesus macaques

Defining the stimulus - a memoir

Reward Associations Do Not Explain Transitive Inference Performance In Monkeys

Are Monkeys Metacognitive?

Cognitive Imitation in Rhesus Macaques

In The Beginning, A Review of Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky's Why Only Us

The Simultaneous Chain: A New Approach to Serial Learning

Transitive Inference in Humans (Homo sapiens) and Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta) After Massed Training of the Last Two List Items

Mechanisms of Inferential Order Judgements in Humans and Rhesus Monkeys

Cognitive Imitation in Typically-Developing 3- and 4- Year Olds and Individuals with Autism

Ordering of the Numerosites 1 to 9 by Monkeys

In the Beginning was the Name

Can an Ape Create a Sentence