ONTOGENY & FUNCTION OF PRIMATE VOCAL COMMUNICATION

个体发育

• 批准号: 6116283
• 负责人: HAROLD T. GOUZOULES
• 金额: $ 8.4万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-05-01 至 2000-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6116283
• 关键词: Mammalia; behavioral /social science research tag; communication behavior; psychology

This project focuses on nonhuman primate vocal communication and its biological and evolutionary relationships to cognition and social behavior. In recent years there has been increased appreciation of the importance of vocal communication in the social lives of nonhuman primates and a goal of the current research is greater understanding of complexity in the vocal signals of monkeys. Studies have indicated signals can represent objects and events in the external world (i.e., have the property of external reference) such findings raise the possibility that animal communication might share the denotative context independence of human language symbols. A complicating issue in efforts to categorize the primate world reflected in communication is that researchers have approached the problem as though the animals classify items with a logic system in which there are only two truth values, 1 or 0 (true and false). Although studies have established associations between differen t vocalizations and referents using this simple dichotomy, it is likely that such bivalent logic is not the actual basis for the categorization of many things communicated about by monkeys. Our research supports this prediction and suggests that a multi-valued or fuzzy logic system, one with more than two truth values, might provide a more realistic way to conceptualize the categorization of certain referents of monkey vocalizations. However, emotional and motivational referents of calls are also indicated in certain vocalizations such as adult copulation calls and the distress cries of infants. As more is learned about how nonhuman primates classify both their physical and social worlds through study of their communication systems, the knowledge gained can be employed in the design of experiments that explore critical cognitive and emotional dimensions of primate behavior relevant to understanding the evolutionary history of our own species. FUNDING Yerkes $20,000 1/01/98 - 12/31/98 PUBLICATIONS Gouzoules, H., Gouzoules, S. and Tomaszycki, M. Agonistic screams and the classification of dominance relationships are monkeys fuzzy logicians? Animal Behaviour 55:51-60, 1998. Gouzoules, H., Gust, D.A., Donaghey, B. and St. Andre, E. Estrus vocalizations in two primate species (Cercocebus torquatus atys and Macaca nemestrina) evidence for an effect of intrasexual competition. Evolution of Communication (In press). Maestripieri, D., Jovanovic, T.J. and Gouzoules, H. Crying and infant abuse in rhesus monkeys. Child Development (In press). P51RR00165-38 1/1/98 - 12/31/98 Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center

这个项目的重点是非人类灵长类动物的声音交流， 它与认知和社会的生物学和进化关系 行为 近年来，人们越来越重视 声音交流在非人类社会生活中的重要性 灵长类动物，目前研究的目标是更好地了解 猴子声音信号的复杂性。 研究表明 信号可以表示外部世界中的对象和事件（即， 具有外部参考的属性），这些发现提高了 动物交流可能共享 人类语言符号的上下文独立性。 一个复杂的问题 在对灵长类世界进行分类的努力中， 研究者们把这个问题看作是 用只有两个真理的逻辑系统对项目进行分类 值，1或0（true和false）。 尽管研究已经证实 使用这种方法， 简单的二分法，这种二价逻辑很可能不是 对所传达的许多事物进行分类的实际基础 猴子。 我们的研究支持这一预测，并表明， 多值或模糊逻辑系统，一个有两个以上的真理 价值观，可能会提供一个更现实的方式来概念化 对猴子发声的某些参照物进行分类。 然而，在这方面， 呼叫的情感和动机指示也在 某些发声，如成年人的交配叫声和痛苦， 婴儿的哭声。 随着对非人类灵长类动物 通过研究他们的物质世界和社会世界， 通信系统，所获得的知识可以用于 探索批判性认知和情感的实验设计 与理解灵长类动物行为相关的维度 人类的进化史 资助耶基斯20，000美元 1998年1月1日至12月31日Gouzoules，S.和 Tomaszycki，M.激动性尖叫和支配的分类 感情是猴子模糊逻辑学家吗 动物行为55：51-60， 1998. Gouzoules，H.，地方检察官格斯特多纳吉，B。和St. Andre，E. 两种灵长类动物（Cercocebus torquatus atys 和Macaca nemestrina）的证据， 竞争 通信的演变（在出版社）。 Maestripieri， D、Jovanovic，T.J.和Gouzoules，H.哭泣和虐待婴儿 恒河猴 儿童发展（出版中）。 P51RR00165-38 1/1/98 - 1998年12月31日耶基斯地区灵长类动物研究中心