Understanding the relationship between the social environment and cognition

理解社会环境与认知之间的关系

• 批准号: DE220100096
• 负责人: Dr Benjamin Ashton
• 金额: $ 31.38万
• 依托单位: Macquarie University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2022-12-30 至 2025-12-29
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DE220100096
• 关键词: Understanding; relationship; between; social; environment

The predominant theory for the evolution of intelligence, the social intelligence hypothesis (SIH), posits that within-group social interactions drive cognitive evolution. But the SIH overlooks a major component of social life: interactions with outsiders of the same species. Using a unique combination of meta-analytical and experimental approaches, the DECRA project will test the predictions of an expanded SIH, incorporating the “Napoleonic” cognitive challenges posed by outsiders. The expected outcome is to gain a new understanding of which factors govern cognitive evolution – one of the longest-running debates in evolutionary biology.

关于智力进化的主要理论，社会智力假说(SIH)，假设群体内的社会互动推动认知进化。但SIH忽略了社会生活的一个主要组成部分：与同一物种的外来者的互动。利用元分析和实验方法的独特组合，DECRA项目将测试扩展的SIH的预测，纳入外来者提出的“拿破仑式”认知挑战。预计的结果是对哪些因素支配认知进化有了新的理解--这是进化生物学中持续时间最长的争论之一。