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Did you know ... some scholars have tried to teach a copy female chimpanzee expressions American sign language (ASL, or American Sign Language) ?
I'm talking about Washoe, young chimpanzee who became able to communicate at some level, with human beings.
Washoe lived most of his life at the University of Nevada, where the experiments were conducted on the language that made it famous, was then transferred to 'University of Washington where he remained until his death, announced October 30, 2007. Washoe left many descendants, some of which, as the adopted daughter Loulis, passed on the knowledge of some of the gestures that had learned in life.
Washoe lived most of his life at the University of Nevada, where the experiments were conducted on the language that made it famous, was then transferred to 'University of Washington where he remained until his death, announced October 30, 2007. Washoe left many descendants, some of which, as the adopted daughter Loulis, passed on the knowledge of some of the gestures that had learned in life. Two scholars' s University of Nevada (Allen and Beatrice Gardner) began a training program designed for learning by the monkey, some ASL signs. This program was called "Project Washoe."
The two scientists proceeded to teaching through operant conditioning techniques, encouraging the use of gestures in Washoe - similar to those of the ASL-to express requests (such as food, water) as well as concepts at a level obviously quite simple.
For example, the monkey was taught that the gesture "MORE" ("more", "anchor") to produce a greater quantity of what was given.
It was shown that once the gesture impadronitasi Washoe was able to apply it in different contexts, for which there had previously been educated. Similar processes were repeated over and over again, so that at the end of the experiment, it was reported as Washoe was able to use about 250 different signs. Why could actually be as known by Washoe, a certain sign was to be made across three different observers in different situations and in the absence of air conditioning (so had to be used spontaneously), and would be used appropriately in a context.
The results achieved by the Project Washoe ignited considerable debate as to their actual reliability and, more importantly, about their meaning. There was a wide front of students who put in prominence as that used by Washoe could not actually be called a "language", arguing that the chimpanzee rather respond to a pattern of stimuli with learned movements mechanically but not actually included. However, the moves by the Project Washoe took countless studies that attempted to replicate in other mammals such as dolphins, parrots.
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