Valentina Truppa
National Research Council
39 Papers
181 Citations
Valentina Truppa is an academic researcher from National Research Council. The author has contributed to research in topics: Stimulus (physiology) & Discrimination learning. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 38 publications. Previous affiliations of Valentina Truppa include University of Padua.
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Papers
Selection of effective stone tools by wild bearded capuchin monkeys.
Elisabetta Visalberghi,Elsa Addessi,Valentina Truppa,Noemi Spagnoletti,Eduardo B. Ottoni,Patrícia Izar,Dorothy M. Fragaszy +6 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that capuchins, which last shared a common ancestor with humans 35 million years ago, faced with stones differing in functional features (friability and weight), choose, transport, and use the effective stone to crack nuts.
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Global and local processing of hierarchical visual stimuli in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella)
TL;DR: Capuchin monkeys' relative accuracy in the processing of the global shape or the local features of hierarchical visual stimuli was assessed, showing a clear advantage for local level processing in this species, which is robust under manipulations of the density of the local elements of the stimuli.
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Processing of visual hierarchical stimuli by fish (Xenotoca eiseni).
TL;DR: The results suggest that a global preference is not a unique trait of human beings and that differences among different vertebrate species in the global/local strategies of stimulus encoding may be because of different ecological adaptations making initial elaboration of a visual scene in a global or local way more likely.
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A comparative analysis of global and local processing of hierarchical visual stimuli in young children (Homo sapiens) and monkeys (Cebus apella).
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared results obtained with preschool children (Homo sapiens) were compared with results previously obtained from capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) in matching-to-sample tasks featuring hierarchical visual stimuli.
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Same/different concept learning by capuchin monkeys in matching-to-sample tasks.
Valentina Truppa,Valentina Truppa,Eva Piano Mortari,Eva Piano Mortari,Duilio Garofoli,Duilio Garofoli,Sara Privitera,Sara Privitera,Elisabetta Visalberghi +8 more
TL;DR: The first evidence of same/different relational matching-to-sample abilities in a New World monkey is found and it is demonstrated that the ability to match novel stimuli is within the capacity of this species.