COOPERATIVE COGNITION IN COOPERATIVELY BREEDING SPECIES

合作育种物种中的合作认知

• 批准号: 7349422
• 负责人: Charles T. Snowdon
• 金额: $ 2.72万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-05-01 至 2007-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7349422
• 关键词: COOPERATIVE; COGNITION; COOPERATIVELY; BREEDING; SPECIES

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. To study the nature and mechanisms of social transfer of information in a cooperatively breeding species. Cooperatively breeding primates must divide effort between infant care, vigilance, group defense, and foraging. Individuals within groups engage in each of these roles. Successful coordination of within group behavior for successful infant care requires clear communication and attention to others. Does this behavioral coordination lead to social facilitation of cognitive skills as well? In cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) we have shown that monkeys attend to vocal and visual signals to avoid a highly preferred familiar food suddenly made noxious with the addition of white pepper, providing one of the only demonstrations of social learning to avoid foods in primates. Furthermore, tamarins in the presence of their mate learn a novel task to find food significantly faster than individual learners acquire the task. Tamarins rapidly demonstrated cooperation when the simultaneous actions of two monkeys were needed to solve a task, but when tested alone, they inhibited responses suggesting an understanding of the cooperative task. A longitudinal study on the relationship between food offering, tolerated begging and infant skill level with foods that are either familiar or novel to the infant suggests that adults engage in rudimerntary "teaching" of infants about food. We discovered a novel tool use behavior in tamarins that is seen in a subset of the colony. We have demonstrated that some non-tool-using animals acquire the skill through spontaneous observation of mates. Finally, we have shown long term retention of social learning (up to 3 years). Collectively, these studies suggest an impressive ability for social learning and information transfer in Callitrichids comparable to or even beyond that of great apes. The biological and behavioral mechanisms leading to cooperative care of infants appear to be linked with cooperative cognition. This research relied on WNPRC Library and Information Services. JOURNAL ARTICLE (No PMID assigned): Cronin, K. A., Kurian, A. V. & Snowdon, C. T. Cooperative problem solving in a cooperatively-breeding primate, the cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus). Animal Behaviour. 69: 133-142. 2005. OTHER: Snowdon, C. T. Development of communication in animals, In K. Brown (ed), Encyclopedia for Language and Linguistics, Second Edition Vol 3, pp 500-503, Elsevier. 2005.

这个子项目是利用由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供的资源的许多研究子项目之一。子项目和调查员(PI)可能从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金，因此可能会出现在其他CRISE条目中。列出的机构是针对中心的，而不一定是针对调查员的机构。研究合作繁殖物种中社会信息传递的性质和机制。合作繁殖的灵长类动物必须在照顾婴儿、保持警惕、群体防御和觅食之间分工合作。团队中的每个人都担当着这些角色。成功地协调群体内的行为以获得成功的婴儿护理需要清晰的沟通和对他人的关注。这种行为协调是否也会促进认知技能的社会发展？在棉顶罗望鱼(Saguinus Oedipus)中，我们已经证明猴子注意声音和视觉信号，以避免一种非常受欢迎的熟悉食物，随着白胡椒的加入，这种食物突然变得有毒，这是灵长类动物中仅有的避免食物的社会学习示范之一。此外，在配偶在场的情况下，罗望鱼学习寻找食物的新任务比单个学习者学习任务的速度要快得多。当需要两只猴子同时行动来解决一项任务时，罗望子素迅速表现出合作，但当单独测试时，它们抑制了暗示理解合作任务的反应。一项关于提供食物、容忍乞讨和婴儿技能水平与婴儿熟悉或陌生食物之间关系的纵向研究表明，成年人正在对婴儿进行初级的食物“教学”。我们在罗望鱼中发现了一种新的工具使用行为，这种行为出现在该群体的一个子集上。我们已经证明，一些不使用工具的动物通过自发地观察配偶来获得这项技能。最后，我们展示了社交学习的长期保持(长达3年)。总而言之，这些研究表明，Callitrichids具有令人印象深刻的社交学习和信息传递能力，可以与类人猿媲美，甚至超过类人猿。导致合作照顾婴儿的生物和行为机制似乎与合作认知有关。这项研究依赖于WNPRC图书信息服务中心。期刊文章(未分配PMID)：Cronin，K.A.，Kurian，A.V.&Snowdon，C.T.合作解决合作繁殖的灵长类动物--棉顶罗兰(Saguinus Oedipus)的问题。动物的行为。69：133-142。2005年。其他：斯诺登，C.T.动物交流的发展，在K.Brown(编辑)，语言和语言学百科全书，第二版，第三卷，第500-503页，埃尔塞维尔。2005年。