Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior

by Matsuzawa, Tetsuro

• ISBN13: 9784431702900
• ISBN10: 4431702903
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Biologists and anthropologists in Japan have played a crucial role in the development of primatology as a scientific discipline. Publication of Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior under the editorship of Tetsuro Matsuzawa reaffirms the pervasive and creative role played by the intellectual descendants of Kinji Imanishi and Junichiro Itani in the fields of behavioral ecology, psychology, and cognitive science. Matsuzawa and his colleagues-humans and other primate partners- explore a broad range of issues including the phylogeny of perception and cognition; the origin of human speech; learning and memory; recognition of self, others, and species; society and social interaction; and culture. With data from field and laboratory studies of more than 90 primate species and of more than 50 years of long-term research, the intellectual breadth represented in this volume makes it a major contribution to comparative cognitive science and to current views on the origin of the mind and behavior of humans.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. VII
Preface	p. IX
List of Authors	p. XIX
Introduction to Comparative Cognitive Science
Primate Foundations of Human Intelligence: A View of Tool Use in Nonhuman Primates and Fossil Hominids	p. 3
Phylogeny of Perception and Cognition
What You See is Different from What I See: Species Differences in Visual Perception	p. 29
Investigating Visual Perception and Cognition in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Through Visual Search and Related Tasks: From Basic to Complex Processes	p. 55
Processing of the Global and Local Dimensions of Visual Hierarchical Stimuli by Humans (Homo sapiens), Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and Baboons (Papio papio)	p. 87
How Do We Eat? Hypothesis of Foraging Strategy from the Viewpoint of Gustation in Primates	p. 104
Origin of Human Speech: Auditory Perception and Vocalization
Lemur Vocal Communication and the Origin of Human Language	p. 115
Vocal Exchange of Coo Calls in Japanese Macaques	p. 135
Hearing and Auditory-Visual Intermodal Recognition in the Chimpanzee	p. 155
Early Vocal Development in a Chimpanzee Infant	p. 190
Learning and Memory
Chimpanzee Numerical Competence: Cardinal and Ordinal Skills	p. 199
Reproductive Memory Processes in Chimpanzees: Homologous Approaches to Research on Human Working Memory	p. 226
Establishing Line Tracing on a Touch Monitor as a Basic Drawing Skill in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	p. 235
Object Recognition and Object Categorization in Animals	p. 269
Recognition of Self, Others, and Species
Mirror Self-Recognition in Primates: An Ontogenetic and a Phylogenetic Approach	p. 297
The Level of Self-Knowledge in Nonhuman Primates: From the Perspective of Comparative Cognitive Science	p. 313
Self- and Other-Control in Squirrel Monkeys	p. 330
Evolutionary Foundation and Development of Imitation	p. 349
Species Recognition by Macaques Measured by Sensory Reinforcement	p. 368
Evolution of the Human Eye as a Device for Communication	p. 383
Society and Social interaction
A Review of 50 Years of Research on the Japanese Monkeys of Koshima: Status and Dominance	p. 405
Mother-Offspring Relationship in Macaques	p. 418
The Myth of Despotism and Nepotism: Dominance and Kinship in Matrilineal Societies of Macaques	p. 441
Decision Making in Social Interactions by Monkeys	p. 463
Culture
"Sweet-Potato Washing" Revisited	p. 487
Tube Test in Free-Ranging Japanese Macaques: Use of Sticks and Stones to Obtain Fruit from a Transparent Pipe	p. 509
Tool Use by Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) of the Arnhem Zoo Community	p. 519
Ecology of Tool Use in Wild Chimpanzees: Toward Reconstruction of Early Hominid Evolution	p. 537
Emergence of Culture in Wild Chimpanzees: Education by Master-Apprenticeship	p. 557
Subject Index	p. 575
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