SOCIAL LEARNING AND CULTURE IN CHIMPANZEES

黑猩猩的社会学习和文化

• 批准号: 8172309
• 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: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-05-01 至 2011-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8172309
• 关键词: Boxing; Collaborations; Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects Database; Funding; Grant; Housing; Human; Institution; Journals; Learning; Modeling; Nature; Pan Genus; Process; Publishing; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Scotland; Series; Source; Specialist; Testing; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; research study; social

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. In close collaboration with Dr. Andrew Whiten of St. Andrews University in Scotland (a world renowned specialist in this field), and two postdoctoral associates, we study the process of social learning in outdoor housed groups of chimpanzees. After a series of tests, published in prominent journals, that demonstrate remarkable imitative capacities in chimpanzees, we have now moved to more detailed tests. We use Dr. Whitten's puzzle boxes and a renovated testing facility, setting up experiments in which we vary the complexity of the task and the nature of the model (i.e. a conspecific or a human experimenter). The unique feature of these studies, compared to all studies done before, is that some of the models from which the chimpanzees can learn are conspecifics. The first signs are that chimpanzees are much better at learning from other chimpanzees than from humans.

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。 在与苏格兰圣安德鲁斯大学的安德鲁·怀特（Andrew Whiten）博士（该领域的世界著名专家）和两名博士后同事的密切合作中，我们研究了户外安置的黑猩猩群体中社会学习的过程。经过一系列在著名期刊上发表的测试，这些测试表明了黑猩猩的显着模仿能力，我们现在已经转到了更详细的测试。我们使用Whitten博士的拼图盒和翻新的测试设施，设置了实验，其中我们改变了任务的复杂性和模型的性质（即同种或人类实验者）。 与以前所做的所有研究相比，这些研究的独特特征是黑猩猩可以从中学习的一些模型是特定的。第一个迹象是黑猩猩从其他黑猩猩学习比从人类那里更好。