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: 7958192
• 负责人: ROBERT L. HAMPTON
• 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/7958192
• 关键词: Animals; Behavioral Paradigm; Clip; Cognition; Complex; Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects Database; Development; Discrimination; Film; Funding; Grant; Individual; Institution; Laboratories; Libraries; Memory; Monkeys; Performance; Primates; Process; Relative (related person); Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Running; Social Behavior; Social Controls; Social Interaction; Source; Stimulus; Structure; Testing; Training; United States National Institutes of Health; insight; neurobehavioral; pressure; response; 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. It is frequently hypothesized that primate cognition has evolved in response to selective pressures for the ability to process complex social information (e.g., Tomasello & Call, 1997). The social complexity hypothesis 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 therefore a critical need for studies of social cognition in primates. Historically, 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 a new behavioral paradigm for studying primate social cognition that permits reliable experimental control of social stimuli by using digitally-edited video clips of monkeys interacting. We have collected a library of primate social behavior videos at the field station using monkeys in Dr. Mark Wilson's laboratory. We have filmed 14 individual monkeys engaged in a variety of social behaviors and have edited many of these clips together to make realistic artificial social interactions. A group of 6 monkeys have been successfully trained to make dominance discriminations using these video clips. A variety of probe tests have revealed that the monkeys' performance is not controlled entirely by dominance information, however, and further probes are currently being run in an effort to determine what other information the monkeys may attend to in these videos. Other probes have demonstrated that the monkeys do remember individuals seen in the videos, and their relative rank.

该副本是利用众多研究子项目之一 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源。子弹和 调查员（PI）可能已经从其他NIH来源获得了主要资金， 因此可以在其他清晰的条目中代表。列出的机构是 对于中心，这不一定是调查员的机构。 经常假设，灵长类动物认知的发展是针对处理复杂社会信息能力的选择性压力的回应（例如Tomasello＆Call，1997）。社会复杂性假设表明，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核心见解。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。因此，对灵长类动物的社会认知研究迫切需要。从历史上看，在猴子中发展此类研究的问题之一是很难向动物展示实验控制的社会刺激。我们在该项目中的目标是开发一种新的行为范式来研究灵长类动物的社会认知，该认知允许通过使用数字编辑的猴子相互作用的视频剪辑来对社会刺激进行可靠的实验控制。 我们已经在马克·威尔逊博士的实验室中使用猴子在现场站收集了一个灵长类动物的社交行为视频库。我们拍摄了14只个人猴子，从事各种社会行为，并一起编辑了许多这些剪辑，以进行现实的人工社会互动。一组6只猴子已经成功地训练了使用这些视频剪辑进行优势歧视。各种探测测试表明，猴子的性能并非完全由优势信息控制，但是目前正在进行进一步的探针，以确定猴子在这些视频中可能参与的其他信息。其他探针表明，猴子确实记得在视频中看到的人及其相对等级。