COGNITIVE COMPONENTS OF SOCIAL PERCEPTION IN NONHUMAN PRIMATES

很明显，群居的非人类灵长类动物能够识别个体， 根据社会相关信息对这些人进行分类，例如 比如熟悉度亲属关系年龄性别和物种 虽然外地和 实验室研究已经澄清了这些歧视性的存在， 实验室实验表明， 一些线索有助于这种辨别能力， 这种能力的认知基础仍然未知。 存储器 特殊的社会特征还没有得到很好的研究。 此外，委员会认为， 猴子组织记忆的能力和记忆 组织或能力受到刺激性质的影响 （社会的，非社会的，抽象的）仍然是开放的问题。 拟议 研究使用实验室实验设计来研究人类， 动物认知解决记忆容量和组织问题 抽象刺激、社会刺激和非社会自然刺激的记忆 刺激。 本研究的具体目的是：（1）研究记忆 猕猴的社会类别能力，（2）调查 猕猴记忆组织的本质， 当出现社会刺激时，这种组织是否会发生变化， (3)研究猕猴对社会刺激的序列学习。 猕猴为人类提供了一个很好的模型， 大脑结构、组织和行为。 猴子的大脑中有细胞， 颞下皮层对面部刺激和 这些刺激的特殊属性。 对人类来说，对世俗的侮辱 中风或意外会导致视觉失认症， 未能查明个人或未能查明或 将非社会性刺激分为功能性类别。 到 我们可以发展出猴子记忆组织的测量方法， 我们可以用猴子来开发脑损伤的实验模型， 导致理解视觉失认症和额外的认知缺陷 中风和其他神经系统疾病的受害者。 基础研究 这里提出的，这是非侵入性的性质，将导致具体的 理解猕猴的认知组织和记忆能力 猴子可以用来开发认知和缺陷的动物模型， 在人类身上。

It is clear that group-living nonhuman primates recognize individuals, and classify those individuals according to socially-relevant information such as familiarity, kinship, age, sex, and species. Although field and laboratory studies have clarified the presence of these discriminative behaviors in macaque monkeys, and laboratory experiments have demonstrated some of the cues contributing to such discriminative capacities, the cognitive underpinnings of such capacities remain unknown. Memory for particular social characteristics has not been well studied. Furthermore, the monkey's ability to organize memory and the degree to which memory organization or capacity is affected by the nature of the stimulus (social, nonsocial, abstract) are still open questions. The proposed research uses laboratory experimental designs developed to study human and animal cognition to address questions of memory capacity and organization of memory with abstract stimuli, social stimuli, and nonsocial natural stimuli. The specific aims of the research are (1) to investigate memory capacities for social categories in macaque monkeys, (2) to investigate the nature of memory organization by macaque monkeys and to determine whether such organization changes when social stimuli are presented, and (3) to study serial list learning of social stimuli in macaque monkeys. The macaque monkey provides an excellent model for the human in terms of brain structure, organization, and behavior. The monkey has cells in the inferotemporal cortex which respond specifically to facial stimuli and to particular attributes of these stimuli. In humans, insult to the temporal cortex by stroke or accident can lead to visual agnosias in the form of failure to identify individuals or failure to be able to identify or classify nonsocial stimuli that fall into functional categories. To the extent that we can develop measures of the organization of monkey memory, we can develop experimental models of brain damage with monkeys that can lead to understanding of visual agnosias and additional cognitive deficits in victims of stroke and other neurological disease. The basic research proposed here, which is noninvasive in nature, will lead to specific understanding of cognitive organization and memory capacities in macaque monkeys that can be used to develop animal models of cognition and deficit in humans.