An exciting new study on Crow intelligence has made waves! I have written to request permission to print the study text and images on this blog, or some of it. Fingers crossed! And I am studying the study to see if I can use it, or some portion of it for enrichment for Fig. I'm also just curious to see how she does. I have given her direct match training in the past, and found that she has done very well, but this new study targets something called relational matching...here's a quick explanation of what that is below:
The gist:
First, Scientists trained/taught Crows to study a sample card, and then choose a card from a pair which had a matching picture/item. This is called IMTS, Image Match To Sample. Simple enough.
Secondly, after having learned to pick out cards with a matching item, the Crows were given a sample card, then again, two cards to choose from. This time, however, no image matches were present. Instead, only something "relational" was "in the cards". This is called RMTS, Relational Match To Sample. Note, some of these relational differences are damned, damned hard to spot for ME! It is quite embarrassing really.
Hopefully, you will be able to try spotting the correct matches yourself and see just how smart Crows actually are, which it turns out more and more, is remarkably smart.
(updating soon)
The gist:
First, Scientists trained/taught Crows to study a sample card, and then choose a card from a pair which had a matching picture/item. This is called IMTS, Image Match To Sample. Simple enough.
Secondly, after having learned to pick out cards with a matching item, the Crows were given a sample card, then again, two cards to choose from. This time, however, no image matches were present. Instead, only something "relational" was "in the cards". This is called RMTS, Relational Match To Sample. Note, some of these relational differences are damned, damned hard to spot for ME! It is quite embarrassing really.
Hopefully, you will be able to try spotting the correct matches yourself and see just how smart Crows actually are, which it turns out more and more, is remarkably smart.
(updating soon)
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