SOCIAL MODIFICATION OF PRIMATE BEHAVIOR

灵长类动物行为的社会改变

• 批准号: 7958105
• 负责人: FRANS DE WAAL
• 金额: $ 4.39万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-01 至 2010-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7958105
• 关键词: Animals; Behavior; Capuchin Monkey; Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects Database; Distress; Education; Face; Funding; Gender; Grant; Human; Institution; Laboratories; Macaca; Monkeys; Pan Genus; Primates; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Rewards; Social Change; Social status; Source; Training; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; graduate student; research study; social; social cognition

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. For social animals to react appropriately to each other they need to know about each others' gender, social status, and the state they are in (such as whether they are hungry, distressed, fearful, or aggressive). The purpose of this study is to illuminate basic social cognition that is often taken for granted. The laboratory at the Yerkes Primate Center serves the education of a great many undergraduate and graduate students, who obtain valuable training in combination with classes they take. Available to them are 30 brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella), kept in indoor/outdoor enclosures that are trained for temporary separation for experiments. Research on this study concerns prosocial tendencies. It is often assumed that only humans show such tendencies, i.e. act prosocially if there is nothing to be gained from doing so. But in this study, capuchin monkeys chose to reward a partner together with themselves over just rewarding themselves for a task. Our work continues with face recognition in monkeys, which matches or exceeds the face recognition found in macaques, and may be closer to that found in chimpanzees.

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 为了让群居动物对彼此做出适当的反应，它们需要知道彼此的性别、社会地位和它们所处的状态(例如它们是饥饿、痛苦、恐惧还是咄咄逼人)。这项研究的目的是阐明经常被视为理所当然的基本社会认知。 耶克斯灵长类中心的实验室为许多本科生和研究生提供教育服务，他们在上课的同时获得了宝贵的培训。提供给他们的是30只棕色卷尾猴(Cebus Apella)，饲养在室内/室外的围栏里，经过训练暂时分开进行实验。 对这项研究的研究涉及亲社会倾向。人们通常认为，只有人类才会表现出这种倾向，即，如果这样做没有任何好处，就会采取有利于社会的行为。但在这项研究中，卷尾猴选择与自己一起奖励伴侣，而不是仅仅奖励自己完成一项任务。 我们的工作继续在猴子的面部识别方面进行，它与猕猴的面部识别相匹配或超过，可能更接近于黑猩猩的面部识别。