SOCIAL LEARNING AND CULTURE IN CHIMPANZEES

这个子项目是利用资源的许多研究子项目之一。 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。对子项目的主要支持 子项目的首席调查员可能是由其他来源提供的， 包括美国国立卫生研究院的其他来源。为子项目列出的总成本可能 表示该子项目使用的中心基础设施的估计数量， 不是由NCRR赠款提供给次级项目或次级项目工作人员的直接资金。 在苏格兰圣安德鲁斯大学的安德鲁·怀特博士(该领域的世界知名专家)和两名博士后助理的合作下，我们研究了户外收容的黑猩猩群体的社交学习过程。最新的进展来自一项关于“声望效应”的研究，该研究询问黑猩猩是否像人类一样，倾向于遵循地位较高的模型，而不是地位较低的模型。在平衡设计中比较两组，研究确实发现地位高的模特吸引更多的追随者(Horner等人。2010)。 与以前进行的所有研究相比，这些研究的独特之处在于，黑猩猩可以学习的一些模型是同种的。最初的迹象是，黑猩猩比人类更善于向其他黑猩猩学习，这当然给所有之前在文献中获得的结果打上了问号。

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. In collaboration with Dr. Andrew Whiten of St. Andrews University in Scotland (a world renowned specialist in this field), and two postdoctoral associates, we study the process of social learning in outdoor housed groups of chimpanzees. The most recent progress came from a study on the "prestige effect," which asked if chimpanzees, like humans, tend to follow high status models more than low status ones. Comparing two groups in a counterbalanced design, the study found indeed that high status models attract more followers (Horner et al. 2010). The unique feature of these studies, compared to all studies done before, is that some of the models from which the chimpanzees can learn are conspecifics. The first signs are that chimpanzees are much better at learning from other chimpanzees than from humans, which of course puts question marks behind all previously obtained results in the literature.