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。 我们与苏格兰圣安德鲁斯大学的安德鲁·怀特博士（该领域的世界知名专家）和两名博士后密切合作，研究了户外饲养的黑猩猩群体的社会学习过程。在著名期刊上发表的一系列测试表明黑猩猩具有非凡的模仿能力，之后我们现在开始进行更详细的测试。我们使用惠顿博士的拼图盒和翻新的测试设施，设置实验，在实验中我们改变任务的复杂性和模型的性质（即同种或人类实验者）。 与之前进行的所有研究相比，这些研究的独特之处在于，黑猩猩可以学习的一些模型是同种的。第一个迹象是，黑猩猩向其他黑猩猩学习的能力比向人类学习的能力要好得多。