Social influences on the acquisition of tool-using behaviors in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

Fragaszy, Dorothy M.; Visalberghi, Elisabetta

doi:10.1037/0735-7036.103.2.159

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“…Experiments with monkeys in the same period likewise failed to find evidence of imitation (Adams-Curtis, 1987;Antinucci & Visalberghi, 1986;Fragaszy & Visalberghi, 1989;Visalberghi, 1987;Visalberghi & Trinca, 1989;Westergaard & Fragaszy, 1987;Westergaard & Lindquist, 1987). Visalberghi and Fragaszy (1990), reviewing their own and similar experiments, concluded that there was evidence of social learning only at the level of stimulus enhancement.…”

Section: Experimental Studies Of Social Learning Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Primate Culture and Social Learning

2000

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The human primate is a deeply cultural species, our cognition being shaped by culture, and cultural transmission amounting to an "epidemic of mental representations" (Sperber, 1996). The architecture of this aspect of human cognition has been shaped by our evolutionary past in ways that we can now begin to discern through comparative studies of other primates. Processes of social learning (learning from others) are important for cognitive science to understand because they are cognitively complex and take many interrelated forms; they shape traditions, cultures and nonsocial aspects of cognition; and in turn they may be shaped by their cultural context. The study of primate social learning and culture has in recent years enjoyed a renaissance, providing a wealth of new findings, key aspects of which are reviewed. The focus is on cognitive issues, including learning about the consequences, sequential structure and hierarchical organization of actions; relating stored knowledge to the assimilation of new social knowledge; feedback guiding the construction of imitations; conceptual grasp of imitation; and the reciprocal relationship between social learning and culture.

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Section: Experimental Studies Of Social Learning Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Primate Culture and Social Learning

2000

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“…Such novel behaviour patterns include the exploitation of new food sources, entry into unknown spaces, or learning to use novel tools (Itani 1965;Katzir 1982;Fragaszy & Visalberghi 1989;Lee 1991). The key characteristic of innovation is the introduction of a novel behaviour pattern into a population's repertoire.…”

Section:  2000 the Association For The Study Of Animal Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

Diffusion of foraging innovations in the guppy

2000

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The way in which novel learned behaviour patterns spread through animal populations remains poorly understood, despite extensive field research and the recognition that such processes play an important role in the behavioural development, social interactions and evolution of many animal species. We conducted a series of controlled diffusions of foraging information in replicate experimental populations of the guppy, Poecilia reticulata. We presented novel foraging tasks over 15 trials to mixed-sex groups, made up of food-deprived and nonfood-deprived adults (experiment 1) or small, young fish and old, large adults (experiment 2). In these diffusions, knowledge of a route to a feeder could spread through the group by subjects learning from others, discovering the route for themselves, or, most likely, by some combination of these social and asocial learning processes. We found a striking sex difference, with novel foraging information spreading at a significantly faster rate through subgroups of females than of males. Females both discovered the goal and learned the route more quickly than males. Food-deprived individuals were faster at completing the tasks over the 15 trials than nonfood-deprived guppies, and there was a significant interaction between sex and size, with a sex difference in adults but not young individuals. There was also an interaction between sex and hunger level, with food deprivation having a stronger effect on male than female performance. We suggest that information may diffuse in a similar nonrandom or 'directed' manner through many natural populations of animals.

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“…Therefore, this 100-h study failed to corroborate the observation of Bortolini & Bicca-Marques (2007) and to reject the hypothesis that capuchins despite their high cognitive abilities are not capable of making tools (Fragaszy & Visalberghi 1989;Fragaszy et al 2004;Ottoni et al 2005). Due to their small body size, callithrichines are probably subject to high predation pressure; in fact, it may be an important factor shaping their cooperative social systems (Caine, 1993).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 55%