COOPERATIVE COGNITION IN COOPERATIVELY BREEDING SPECIES

合作育种物种中的合作认知

• 批准号: 7958742
• 负责人: Charles T. Snowdon
• 金额: $ 4.68万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
• 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/7958742
• 关键词: Adolescent; Adult; Altruism; Animals; Attention; Behavior; Behavioral; Behavioral Mechanisms; Biological; Breeding; Cognition; Cognitive; Communication; Competence; Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects Database; Development; Follow-Up Studies; Food; Funding; Gossypium; Grant; Individual; Infant; Infant Care; Information Services; Institution; Lead; Learning; Libraries; Link; Longitudinal Studies; Monkeys; Nature; Partner in relationship; Pongidae; Primates; Publications; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Role; Saguinus; Signal Transduction; Social Facilitation; Social Interaction; Source; Testing; United States National Institutes of Health; Wisconsin; novel; response; skills; social; tool; vigilance

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. Objective: To study the nature and mechanisms of social transfer of information in cooperatively breeding cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Cooperatively breeding primates divide effort between infant care, vigilance, group defense, and foraging. Individuals within groups engage in each of these roles. Successful coordination 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 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. In a follow-up study, tamarins continued to cooperate even when an individual did not receive food in a session suggesting reciprocal altruism. A longitudinal study on the relationship between food offering, tolerated begging and infant skill level found adults use special signals in transferring food to infants and withdraw these signals as infants gain competence. We discovered a novel tool-making and tool use behavior seen in a subset of the colony. Some non-tool-using animals acquire the skill through spontaneous observation of mates. We have completed developmental studies on social learning of a novel foraging task and find that adults provide much more information for infants than they do for juveniles and provide no information to each other (as adults) to facilitate social learning. Finally, we have shown long term retention of social learning (up to three years). Collectively, we find 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 cognitive skills that are dependent on social interactions. This research relied on WNPRC Library and Information Services. Funding ended just before this reporting period; publications have resulted.

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中的一个 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源。子项目和 研究者（PI）可能从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金， 因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。所列机构为 研究中心，而研究中心不一定是研究者所在的机构。 目的：研究合作繁殖棉顶绒猴社会信息传递的性质和机制。 合作繁殖的灵长类动物在照顾婴儿、警戒、群体防御和觅食之间分工。团体中的个人参与其中的每一个角色。成功的婴儿护理需要在群体行为中进行成功的协调，这需要明确的沟通和对他人的关注。这种行为协调是否也会导致认知技能的社会促进？在棉顶绢毛猴（Saguinus oedipus），我们已经表明，绢毛猴迅速表现出合作时，需要同时采取行动的两只猴子来解决一个任务，但单独测试时，他们抑制的反应表明理解的合作任务。在一项后续研究中，绢毛猴继续合作，即使一个人在一次会议上没有得到食物，这表明了互惠利他主义。一项关于食物提供、容忍乞讨和婴儿技能水平之间关系的纵向研究发现，成人在向婴儿传递食物时使用特殊信号，并在婴儿获得能力时撤回这些信号。我们在殖民地的一个子集中发现了一种新的工具制造和工具使用行为。一些不使用工具的动物通过自发观察配偶来获得技能。我们已经完成了一个新的觅食任务的社会学习的发展研究，发现成年人提供更多的信息，婴儿比他们做的青少年，并提供任何信息，以促进社会学习。 最后，我们已经证明了社会学习的长期保留（长达三年）。总的来说，我们发现了一个令人印象深刻的能力，社会学习和信息传递的Callitrichids可比，甚至超过了类人猿。导致婴儿合作护理的生物和行为机制似乎与依赖于社会互动的认知技能有关。本研究依托WNPRC图书馆和信息服务。 在本报告所述期间之前结束了供资;出版了一些出版物。