Sentence examples for transposition task from inspiring English sources

We used a transposition task (e.g., Rooijakkers et al. 2009) for training.

The current study compares dogs and apes in an invisible transposition task.

Our expectation is that dogs would perform better in the olfactory compared to the visual version of the transposition task.

Another form of invisible displacement, which has not been investigated extensively in animal research, is the transposition task (Sophian 1984, 1985).

The general procedure was identical to Experiments 1 and 2. The use of the transposition task in Experiment 2 had not significantly led to a reduction inside biases.

Nevertheless, great apes seem to master different variations of the transposition task (outperforming 2-year-old humans in the process, Barth and Call 2006), including the most demanding version that involves the containers crossing their paths and occupying their original respective positions when they come to rest (Barth and Call 2006; Beran and Minahan 2000; Beran et al. 2005; Call 2001, 2003).

In contrast, dogs experienced major difficulties to follow an object's invisible trajectory in these transposition tasks.

First, this comparison helps to understand how species with a completely different ecological background (Dogs = Carnivores and Apes = Omnivores) solve transposition tasks.

All subjects except Dokana and Ulla had received 6 transposition trials with three cups as part of a previous study (Barth and Call 2006), however none of them had experience with the specific transposition tasks with 2 cups developed for the current study.

A future challenge will be to test dogs on an transposition olfactory-based task equivalent to the visually-based task examined in the current study.

Thus, just like the Piagetian stage 6 task, transpositions involve the reward changing its initial location 'invisibly' but unlike the Piagetian task, they involve the change of location of one or more of the available containers.