SOCIAL MODIFICATION OF PRIMATE BEHAVIOR

灵长类动物行为的社会改变

• 批准号: 7958105
• 负责人: FRANS DE WAAL
• 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/7958105
• 关键词: Animals; Behavior; Capuchin Monkey; Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects Database; Distress; Education; Face; Funding; Gender; Grant; Human; Institution; Laboratories; Macaca; Monkeys; Pan Genus; Primates; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Rewards; Social Change; Social status; Source; Training; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; graduate student; research study; 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. For social animals to react appropriately to each other they need to know about each others' gender, social status, and the state they are in (such as whether they are hungry, distressed, fearful, or aggressive). The purpose of this study is to illuminate basic social cognition that is often taken for granted. The laboratory at the Yerkes Primate Center serves the education of a great many undergraduate and graduate students, who obtain valuable training in combination with classes they take. Available to them are 30 brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella), kept in indoor/outdoor enclosures that are trained for temporary separation for experiments. Research on this study concerns prosocial tendencies. It is often assumed that only humans show such tendencies, i.e. act prosocially if there is nothing to be gained from doing so. But in this study, capuchin monkeys chose to reward a partner together with themselves over just rewarding themselves for a task. Our work continues with face recognition in monkeys, which matches or exceeds the face recognition found in macaques, and may be closer to that found in chimpanzees.

该子项目是利用该技术的众多研究子项目之一 资源由 NIH/NCRR 资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 研究者 (PI) 可能已从 NIH 的另一个来源获得主要资金， 因此可以在其他 CRISP 条目中表示。列出的机构是 中心，不一定是研究者的机构。 为了使社会性动物能够对彼此做出适当的反应，它们需要了解彼此的性别、社会地位以及它们所处的状态（例如它们是否饥饿、痛苦、恐惧或具有攻击性）。这项研究的目的是阐明通常被认为是理所当然的基本社会认知。 耶基斯灵长类动物中心的实验室为众多本科生和研究生提供教育服务，他们在学习课程的同时获得了宝贵的培训。他们可以使用 30 只棕色卷尾猴 (Cebus apella)，这些猴子被饲养在室内/室外围栏中，接受临时分离训练以进行实验。 这项研究的研究涉及亲社会倾向。人们通常认为只有人类才会表现出这种倾向，即如果这样做没有任何好处，就会采取亲社会的行为。但在这项研究中，卷尾猴选择与自己一起奖励伙伴，而不是仅仅奖励自己完成一项任务。 我们的工作仍在继续，猴子的面部识别能力与猕猴的面部识别能力相当或超过，并且可能更接近黑猩猩的面部识别能力。