Environmental Structuring Of Individual Action In Social Mammals

社会哺乳动物个体行为的环境结构

• 批准号: 341712-2013
• 负责人: Henzi, Peter
• 金额: $ 2.4万
• 依托单位: University of Lethbridge
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=549460
• 关键词: Environmental; Structuring; Individual; Action; Social

My research has been - and is - concerned with the ways in which the physical, ecological and social environments interact to present individuals with challenges that are contingent on particular contexts. It is my view that the contingent nature of the challenges provides the basal level of the cognition of human and non-human primates. Such cognition is best characterised by the ability to act adaptively in real-time (online cognition), rather than engage in thought about the best ways to proceed. To the extent to which it is a 'social' cognition, I am interested in the ways in which being an obligate member of a social group structures an individual's responses to the world. I conduct my research on non-human primates (baboon, vervet monkeys) in the wild in order to document the nature of the challenges as well as the variability, and context-specificity, of the responses of different individuals. I am currently concentrating on the pressures imposed on social animals, who must coordinate their activities, by the thermal environment. The rapidity of climate change gives this aspect of my research a particular salience and is leading to applied work in the modeling of the effects of this change for social animals in arid areas. I am also working more generally on the use of space and the ways in which being a member of a social group both affords opportunities for action as well as limits what can be done.

我的研究一直是-和-关注的方式，其中物理，生态和社会环境相互作用，以呈现个人的挑战，这是在特定的情况下。我认为，挑战的偶然性为人类和非人类灵长类动物的认知提供了基础。这种认知的最大特点是能够实时自适应地采取行动（在线认知），而不是思考最佳方式。在某种程度上，它是一种“社会”认知，我感兴趣的是，作为一个社会群体的义务成员，个人对世界的反应是如何构成的。我在野外对非人类灵长类动物（狒狒，长尾猴）进行研究，以记录挑战的性质以及不同个体的反应的可变性和背景特异性。我目前集中在压力施加在社会动物，谁必须协调他们的活动，由热环境。气候变化的快速性使我的研究在这方面特别突出，并导致在干旱地区的社会动物这种变化的影响建模应用工作。我还在更广泛地研究空间的利用，以及作为社会群体的一员既提供行动机会又限制行动的方式。