COOPERATIVE COGNITION IN COOPERATIVELY BREEDING SPECIES

本子项目是利用由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源的众多研究子项目之一。子项目和研究者（PI）可能已经从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金，因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。列出的机构是中心的，不一定是研究者的机构。研究合作繁殖物种信息社会传递的性质和机制。合作繁殖的灵长类动物必须在照顾婴儿、警惕、群体防御和觅食之间分配精力。群体中的个人扮演着这些角色中的每一个。成功的群体行为协调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）中，我们已经证明，猴子会注意声音和视觉信号，以避免一种非常喜欢的熟悉的食物，突然在添加了白胡椒后变得有毒，这是灵长类动物中唯一的社会学习避免食物的例证之一。此外，在配偶在场的情况下，绢毛猴学习寻找食物的新任务的速度明显快于个体学习者获得任务的速度。当需要两只猴子同时行动来解决一项任务时，绢毛猴迅速表现出合作精神，但当单独测试时，它们抑制了表明理解合作任务的反应。一项关于食物提供、容忍乞讨和婴儿对熟悉或陌生食物的技能水平之间关系的纵向研究表明，成年人参与了婴儿关于食物的初步“教学”。我们在绢毛猴群体的一个子集中发现了一种新的工具使用行为。我们已经证明，一些不使用工具的动物是通过自发地观察配偶而获得这项技能的。最后，我们展示了社会学习的长期保留（长达3年）。总的来说，这些研究表明，卡利特里科动物的社会学习和信息传递能力令人印象深刻，可以与类人猿相媲美，甚至超过类人猿。导致婴儿合作照料的生物学和行为机制似乎与合作认知有关。本研究依托WNPRC图书馆信息服务。期刊论文（No PMID assigned）： Cronin， K. A., Kurian， A. V.和Snowdon， C. T.合作繁殖灵长类动物——棉顶绢毛猴（Saguinus oedipus）的合作问题解决。动物行为学。69:133-142。2005. 其他：斯诺登，c.t.动物交流的发展，在K.布朗（编），百科全书的语言和语言学，第二版卷3，第500-503，爱思唯尔，2005年。

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. To study the nature and mechanisms of social transfer of information in a cooperatively breeding species. Cooperatively breeding primates must divide effort between infant care, vigilance, group defense, and foraging. Individuals within groups engage in each of these roles. Successful coordination of 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 monkeys attend to vocal and visual signals to avoid a highly preferred familiar food suddenly made noxious with the addition of white pepper, providing one of the only demonstrations of social learning to avoid foods in primates. Furthermore, tamarins in the presence of their mate learn a novel task to find food significantly faster than individual learners acquire the task. 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. A longitudinal study on the relationship between food offering, tolerated begging and infant skill level with foods that are either familiar or novel to the infant suggests that adults engage in rudimerntary "teaching" of infants about food. We discovered a novel tool use behavior in tamarins that is seen in a subset of the colony. We have demonstrated that some non-tool-using animals acquire the skill through spontaneous observation of mates. Finally, we have shown long term retention of social learning (up to 3 years). Collectively, these studies suggest 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 cooperative cognition. This research relied on WNPRC Library and Information Services. JOURNAL ARTICLE (No PMID assigned): Cronin, K. A., Kurian, A. V. & Snowdon, C. T. Cooperative problem solving in a cooperatively-breeding primate, the cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus). Animal Behaviour. 69: 133-142. 2005. OTHER: Snowdon, C. T. Development of communication in animals, In K. Brown (ed), Encyclopedia for Language and Linguistics, Second Edition Vol 3, pp 500-503, Elsevier. 2005.