ONTOGENY & FUNCTION OF PRIMATE VOCAL COMMUNICATION

个体发育

• 批准号: 6116283
• 负责人: HAROLD T. GOUZOULES
• 金额: $ 8.4万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-05-01 至 2000-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6116283
• 关键词: Mammalia; behavioral /social science research tag; communication behavior; psychology

This project focuses on nonhuman primate vocal communication and its biological and evolutionary relationships to cognition and social behavior. In recent years there has been increased appreciation of the importance of vocal communication in the social lives of nonhuman primates and a goal of the current research is greater understanding of complexity in the vocal signals of monkeys. Studies have indicated signals can represent objects and events in the external world (i.e., have the property of external reference) such findings raise the possibility that animal communication might share the denotative context independence of human language symbols. A complicating issue in efforts to categorize the primate world reflected in communication is that researchers have approached the problem as though the animals classify items with a logic system in which there are only two truth values, 1 or 0 (true and false). Although studies have established associations between differen t vocalizations and referents using this simple dichotomy, it is likely that such bivalent logic is not the actual basis for the categorization of many things communicated about by monkeys. Our research supports this prediction and suggests that a multi-valued or fuzzy logic system, one with more than two truth values, might provide a more realistic way to conceptualize the categorization of certain referents of monkey vocalizations. However, emotional and motivational referents of calls are also indicated in certain vocalizations such as adult copulation calls and the distress cries of infants. As more is learned about how nonhuman primates classify both their physical and social worlds through study of their communication systems, the knowledge gained can be employed in the design of experiments that explore critical cognitive and emotional dimensions of primate behavior relevant to understanding the evolutionary history of our own species. FUNDING Yerkes $20,000 1/01/98 - 12/31/98 PUBLICATIONS Gouzoules, H., Gouzoules, S. and Tomaszycki, M. Agonistic screams and the classification of dominance relationships are monkeys fuzzy logicians? Animal Behaviour 55:51-60, 1998. Gouzoules, H., Gust, D.A., Donaghey, B. and St. Andre, E. Estrus vocalizations in two primate species (Cercocebus torquatus atys and Macaca nemestrina) evidence for an effect of intrasexual competition. Evolution of Communication (In press). Maestripieri, D., Jovanovic, T.J. and Gouzoules, H. Crying and infant abuse in rhesus monkeys. Child Development (In press). P51RR00165-38 1/1/98 - 12/31/98 Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center

该项目着重于非人类灵长类动物的声音交流和 它与认知和社会的生物学和进化关系 行为。 近年来，人们对 声音交流在非人类社会生活中的重要性 灵长类动物和当前研究的目标是更了解 猴子的声音信号中的复杂性。 研究表明 信号可以代表外部世界中的对象和事件（即 具有外部参考的特性）此类发现提出了 动物交流可能共享这一说法的可能性 人类语言符号的上下文独立性。 一个复杂的问题 为了对反映在交流中的灵长类世界进行分类 是研究人员已经解决了这个问题 将项目与逻辑系统分类，其中只有两个真相 值1或0（true and fals）。 尽管研究已经建立 使用此的差异声音与参考人之间的关联 简单的二分法，这种二价逻辑可能不是 分类许多有关传达的事物的实际基础 由猴子。 我们的研究支持这一预测，并表明 多价值或模糊逻辑系统，一个具有两个以上真相 价值观，可能提供了一种更现实的方式来概念化 对某些猴子发声的某些指南的分类。 然而， 在 某些发声，例如成人交配电话和困扰 婴儿的哭声。 随着更多关于非人类灵长类动物的了解 通过研究他们的身体和社会世界分类 通信系统，获得的知识可以在 探索关键认知和情感的实验设计 灵长类动物行为的维度与理解 我们自己物种的进化史。 资金yerkes $ 20,000 1/01/98-12/31/98出版物Gouzoules，H.，Gouzoules，S。和 Tomaszycki，M。激动尖叫和主导地位的分类 人际关系是猴子模糊的逻辑学家吗？ 动物行为55：51-60， 1998。Gouzoules，H.，Gust，D.A.，Donaghey，B。和St. Andre，E。 两种灵长类动物的发声（Cercocebus torqoratus atys 和Macaca Nemestrina）证据表明内部酶的作用 竞赛。 沟通的演变（印刷中）。 Maestripieri， D.，Jovanovic，T.J。和古祖勒斯（Gouzoules），H。哭泣和婴儿虐待 恒河猴。 儿童发展（印刷中）。 P51RR00165-38 1/1/98- 12/31/98 Yerkes地区灵长类动物研究中心