A NEUROETHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO MEMORY AND COGNITION IN MONKEYS

猴子记忆和认知的神经行为学方法

• 批准号: 8357432
• 负责人: ROBERT L. HAMPTON
• 金额: $ 3.29万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8357432
• 关键词: Accounting; Animals; Behavioral Paradigm; Clip; Cognition; Complex; Development; Discrimination; Film; Funding; Grant; Human; Individual; Learning; Libraries; Link; Memory; Monkeys; National Center for Research Resources; Performance; Primates; Principal Investigator; Process; Research; Research Infrastructure; Resources; Social Behavior; Social Controls; Social Dominance; Social Interaction; Source; Stimulus; Structure; Techniques; Testing; Training; United States National Institutes of Health; cost; face perception; insight; neurobehavioral; pressure; response; social; social cognition; social group

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. Primary support for the subproject and the subproject's principal investigator may have been provided by other sources, including other NIH sources. The Total Cost listed for the subproject likely represents the estimated amount of Center infrastructure utilized by the subproject, not direct funding provided by the NCRR grant to the subproject or subproject staff. Primate cognition may have evolved in response to selective pressures for the ability to process complex social information. This suggests that central insights into the structure and function of primate cognition will be achieved through the study of social cognition. However, few neurobehavioral studies of primate cognition have made use of social stimuli. There is a critical need for studies of social cognition in primates. One of the issues retarding the development of such studies in monkeys is the difficulty in presenting animals with experimentally-controlled social stimuli. Our objective in this project is to develop behavioral paradigms for studying primate social cognition that permit reliable experimental control of social stimuli using digitally-edited video clips. We have created a library of primate social behavior videos. We filmed individual monkeys engaged in a variety of social behaviors and have edited these clips together to make realistic artificial social interactions. Monkeys have been trained to make dominance discriminations using these video clips. Other tests have shown that the monkeys remember individuals seen in the videos. We have discovered close parallels with human face perception in monkeys. We have successfully trained monkeys on a transitive inference task thought to be similar to dominance hierarchy learning. We have shown that monkeys readily "link" ordered lists, indicating that associative strength cannot account for performance in transitive inference tasks. We have developed techniques for automatically testing monkey cognition in large social groups.

该副本是利用资源的众多研究子项目之一 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供。对该子弹的主要支持 而且，副投影的主要研究员可能是其他来源提供的 包括其他NIH来源。 列出的总费用可能 代表subproject使用的中心基础架构的估计量， NCRR赠款不直接向子弹或副本人员提供的直接资金。 灵长类动物的认知可能是为了响应选择性压力而发展，以处理复杂的社会信息。这表明，将通过研究社会认知来实现对灵长类动物认知结构和功能的中心见解。但是，很少有关于灵长类动物认知的神经行为研究使用了社会刺激。对灵长类动物的社会认知研究至关重要。在猴子中进行此类研究的发展的问题之一是，很难向动物展示实验控制的社会刺激。我们在这个项目中的目标是开发行为范式来研究灵长类动物的社会认知，该认知允许使用数字编辑的视频剪辑对社会刺激的可靠实验控制。 我们创建了一个灵长类动物的社会行为视频库。我们拍摄了从事各种社会行为的单个猴子，并将这些剪辑编辑在一起，以进行现实的人工社会互动。猴子已经接受了使用这些视频剪辑进行优势歧视的训练。其他测试表明，猴子记得在视频中看到的人。我们发现了与猴子的人脸感知的紧密相似之处。我们已经成功地训练了猴子，以此认为与统治层次结构学习相似。我们已经表明，猴子很容易“链接”订购的列表，表明关联强度无法说明及物推理任务中的性能。我们已经开发了自动测试大型社会群体猴子认知的技术。