Primate Cognition

By Amanda Seed, Michael Tomasello. Topics in Cognitive Science, 2010

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Darwin's mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds (2008, neutral): “…given a choice between B and D, observers preferred to spend more time adjacent to D rather than B. Results such as these demonstrate that the ability to keep track of the dominance relations between tertiary dyads is not limited to nonhuman primates or even to mammals (cf. Tomasello & Call 1997).”
Why do gestures matter? Sensuous cognition and the palpability of mathematical meanings (2009, methodology): “…of decline until a new impetus arose, in part as the result of attempts at teaching chimpanzees to use a kind of Sign Language, as well as the spread of a renewed interest in understanding the origins of language (Deacon 1997; Kendon 2004; Savage-Rumbaugh and Lewin 1994; Tomasello and Call 1997).”
Selective mimetism at departure in collective movements of Macaca tonkeana: an experimental and theoretical approach (2009, background): “Intentional mechanisms might underlie this specific organization, thanks to the high cognitive abilities of primates as discussed in Hemelrijk (2002) and Tomasello & Call (1997).”
Cooperative problem solving in a social carnivore (2009, neutral): “The implication of such behaviour with regard to the attribution of mental state, however, remains uncertain (Tomasello & Call 1997).”
How wild bearded capuchin monkeys select stones and nuts to minimize the number of strikes per nut cracked (2010, background): “…comparative inquiry about psychological characteristics that predict tool use in nonhuman species, complementing inquiries into the familiar themes of spatial reasoning, causal reasoning, planning, and so forth that predominate in this area (e.g. Tomasello & Call 1997; Visalberghi & Fragaszy 2006).”
Revisiting the definition of animal tool use (2008, methodology): “Studies of tool use, both in the laboratory and in the field, continue to advance our understanding of the behavioural and cognitive capabilities of animals today (Tomasello & Call 1997; Povinelli 2000).”
Elephant cognition in primate perspective (2009, background): “…this was finally confirmed experimentally in the case of the chimpanzee (Hare, Call, & Tomasello, 2001; Tomasello, et al., 2003) and the orangutan (Cartmill & Byrne, 2007), after several years of explicit denials of the possibility (Povinelli, 1993; Povinelli & Eddy, 1996; Tomasello & Call, 1997).”
The humanity of what we eat: Conceptions of human uniqueness among vegetarians and omnivores† (2011, background): “…features that were once attributed only to human beings (e.g. consciousness, theory of mind, empathy, personality) was questioned in contemporary cognitive and behavioural sciences (De Waal, 2009; Gosling, 2008; Gosling & John, 1999; Nettle, 2006; Premack & Woodruff, 1978; Tomasello & Call, 1997).”
The evolution of food sharing in primates (2011, background): “Such bonds are formed in many primate species (Cords 1997; Tomasello and Call 1997; Silk 2002; Massen et al. 2010) and are sufficient to account for the loose exchange of lowcost altruistic acts common in primate groups (Schino and Aureli 2009).”
Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture (2009, background): “…to some unique processes of social learning and transmission.3 Based on extensive reviews of experimental literature, Tomasello (1990, 1996) and Tomasello & Call (1997) proposed that one important factor leading to the ratchet effect in human culture, but not chimpanzee culture, is that human…”
Human Culture in Evolutionary Perspective (2010, background): “But wolves and lions do something very similar, and most researchers do not attribute to them any kind of joint goals and/or plans (Cheney & Seyfarth, 1990 ; Tomasello & Call, 1997 ).”
Chest Color and Social Status in Male Geladas (Theropithecus gelada) (2009, neutral): “Indeed, the vast majority of primate species assess conspecifics using individual recognition (Tomasello and Call 1997): a strategy that works quite well in small social groups that are relatively stable over time, e.”