Primate Cognitive Studies

About this book

Researchers have studied non-human primate cognition along different paths, including social cognition, planning and causal knowledge, spatial cognition and memory, and gestural communication, as well as comparative studies with humans. This volume describes how primate cognition is studied in labs, zoos, sanctuaries, and in the field, bringing together researchers examining similar issues in all of these settings and showing how each benefits from the others. Readers will discover how lab-based concepts play out in the real world of free primates. Primate Cognitive Studies tackles pressing issues such as replicability, research ethics, and open science. With contributors from a broad range of comparative, cognitive, neuroscience, developmental, ecological, and ethological perspectives, the volume provides a state-of-the-art review pointing to new avenues for integrative research.

Contents

1. The purpose of primate cognitive studies / Bennett L. Schwartz and Michael J. Beran
2. A history of primates studying primates / David A. Washburn and Sarah G. Walters
3. Genetic and environmental influences on Chimpanzee brain and cognition / William D. Hopkins and Chet C. Sherwood
4. The evolution of cognition in primates, including humans / David A. Leavens
5. State of the field: developmental primate cognition / Eliza L. Nelson, Jacqueline Alvarez, Brenda Jimenez and Kasey Padron
6. Current perspectives on primate perception / Audrey E. Parrish and Christian Agrillo
7. The comparative study of categorization / J. David Smith, Brooke N. Jackson, Andres F. Sanchez, and Barbara A. Church
8. Numerical cognition in non-human primates / Sarah Jones and Jasmine Roman
9. The natural history of primate spatial cognition: an organismic perspective / Charles R. Menzel and Ken Sayers
10. Progress and prospects in primate tool use and cognition / Kathelijne Koops and Crickette Sanz
11. Sequencing, artificial grammar, and recursion in primates / Stephen Ferrigno
12. The evolution of episodic cognition: the sense of time / Gema Martin-Ordas
13. Metacognition / Victoria L. Templer
14. Bridging the conceptual gap between inferential reasoning and problem solving in primates / Josep Call
15. The eyes have it: using non-invasive eye tracking to advance comparative social cognition research / Lauren H. Howard and Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf
16. Social cooperation in primates / Stella R. Mayerhoff, Jhonatan M. Saldaña Santisteban and Sarah F. Brosnan
17. Primate communication: affective, intentional, or both? / Rafaela Heesen, Christine Sievers, Thibaud Gruber and Zanna Clay
18. Theory of mind in nonhuman primates / Laura S. Lewis and Christopher Krupenye
19. A requiem for ape language research: the cognitive foundations of language / Lisa A. Heimbauer and Mark A. Krause
20. Primate empathy: a flexible and multi-componential phenomenon / Jake S. Brooker, Christine E. Webb and Zanna Clay
21. Replication and reproducibility in primate cognition research / Benjamin G. Farrar, Christopher Krupenye, Alba Motes-Rodrigo, Claudio Tennie, Julia Fischer, Drew M. Altschul and Ljerka Ostojic
22. Ethical considerations in conducting primate cognition research / Stephen R. Ross, Jesse G. Leinwand, and Lydia M. Hopper
23. Collaboration and open science initiatives in primate research / Drew Altschul, Manuel Bohn, Charlotte Canteloup, Sonja J. Ebel, Daniel Hanus, R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, Marine Joly, Stefanie Keupp, Miquel Llorente, Cathal O'Madagain, Christopher I. Petkov, Darby Proctor, Alba Motes-Rodrigo, Kirsten Sutherland, Anna Szabelska, Derry Taylor, Christoph J. Völter and Nicolás G. Wiggenhauser
24. Studying primate cognition: from the wild to captivity and back / Julia Fischer
25. Do monkeys belong in the ape house? Comparing cognition across primate species / Jennifer Vonk and Jared Edge

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Biography

Bennett L. Schwartz is a Professor of Psychology at Florida International University. He conducts research on human metacognition and memory and has published over 100 journal articles, books, and book chapters. He is currently editor-in-chief of New Ideas in Psychology and associate editor of Metacognition and Learning and Acta Psychologica.

Michael J. Beran is a Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Language Research Center at Georgia State University. He has published over 200 journal articles and fifty edited books and encyclopedias. He is the co-editor of Foundations of Metacognition (2012) and author of Self-Control in Animals and People (2018).


Contributors:
- Bennett L. Schwartz
- Michael J. Beran
- David A. Washburn
- Sarah G. Walters
- William D. Hopkins
- Chet C. Sherwood
- David A. Leavens
- Eliza L. Nelson
- Jacqueline Alvarez
- Brenda Jimenez
- Kasey Padron
- Audrey E. Parrish
- Christian Agrillo
- David Smith
- Brooke N. Jackson
- Andres F. Sanchez
- Barbara A. Church
- Sarah Jones
- Jasmine Roman
- Charles R. Menzel
- Ken Sayers
- Kathelijne Koops
- Crickette Sanz
- Stephen Ferrigno
- Gema Martin-Ordas
- Victoria L. Templer
- Josep Call
- Lauren H. Howard
- Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf
- Stella R. Mayerhoff
- Jhonatan M. Saldaña Santisteban
- Sarah F. Brosnan
- Rafaela Heesen
- Christine Sievers
- Thibaud Gruber
- Zanna Clay
- Laura S. Lewis
- Christopher Krupenye
- Lisa A. Heimbauer
- Mark A. Krause
- Jake S. Brooker
- Christine E. Webb
- Benjamin G. Farrar
- Alba Motes-Rodrigo
- Claudio Tennie
- Julia Fischer
- Drew M. Altschul
- Ljerka Ostojic
- Stephen R. Ross
- Jesse G. Leinwand
- Lydia M. Hopper
- Drew Altschul
- Manuel Bohn
- Charlotte Canteloup
- Sonja J. Ebel
- Daniel Hanus
- R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar
- Marine Joly
- Stefanie Keupp
- Miquel Llorente
- Cathal O'Madagain
- Christopher I. Petkov
- Darby Proctor
- Kirsten Sutherland
- Anna Szabelska
- Derry Taylor
- Christoph J. Völter
- Nicolás G. Wiggenhauser
- Jennifer Vonk
- Jared Edge