Priming primates: Human and otherwise

By T. Zentall. 1998

The radical nub of Byrne & Russon's argument is that passive priming effects can produce much of the evidence of higher-order cognition in nonhuman primates. In support of their position we review evidence of similar behavioral priming effects n humans. However, that evidence further suggests that even program-level imitative behavior can be produced through priming.

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Imitating Interactive Intelligence (2020, background): ““Program-level imitation,” where an individual recognises the gist of a complex task, shifts the burden of learning from tabula rasa exploration to refinement through practice (Byrne and Russon, 1998; Byrne, 2009).”
Exploring memory in infancy: deferred imitation and the development of declarative memory (2006, background): “Such criticism is harder to level at studies of imitation involving actions-with-objects, in which near-zero baseline rates indicate that the behaviours produced are novel to the infants (Hayne, 1998).”
Social learning affects object exploration and manipulation in keas, Nestor notabilis (2001, background): “Being attracted by a conspecific to explore a novel object does not necessarily lead to slavish copying, but may lead to learning what parts of the object are worth exploring (Huber 1998).”
Sylvia's Recipe: The Role of Imitation and Pedagogy in the Transmission of Cultural Knowledge (2006, background): “…of behaviors in non-human primates 'Simple' (goal-driven) teleology and tool use in primates Many field researchers (e.g. Byrne this volume; Byrne and Russon 1998; Boesch and Boesch 1993; Goodall 1986; McGrew 1996; Nishida 1987) have documented socially transmitted population-specific…”
1 Imitation and Other Minds: The "Like Me" Hypothesis (2005, background): “Animal researchers try to approach the problem by testing multistep sequences (often composed of familiar acts); they suggest that particular serial orders can be considered novel and would not arise by chance in the absence of the demonstration (R. Byrne, 2002; R. Byrne & Russon, 1998; Whiten, 20”
The Evolution of Thought: The manual skills and cognition that lie behind hominid tool use (2004, background): “…instance, attaining the (prohibited) 14 goal of “washing” laundry with stolen soap entailed a whole series of actions—untying a canoe, rocking it side to side to remove the bilge water, punting it to the otherwise inaccessible raft where laundry and soap could be had, etc. (Byrne & Russon, 1998).”
Spontaneous motor tempo and rhythmical synchronisation in 2½- and 4-year-old children (2003, methodology): “According to Delcomyn (1980), timing of repetitive movements is regulated by a timekeeper located in the central nervous system rather than by sensory feedback from moving parts of the body.”
Behavioral cues to others’ motivation and goal pursuits: The perception of effort facilitates goal inference and contagion (2007, background): “All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2006.09.002 instance, it has been argued that humans and great apes can use others’ goals to represent, organize and guide their own courses of goal-directed actions (Byrne & Russon, 1998; Tomasello, Kruger, & Ratner, 1993).”