Dear All,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk by:
Nicolas Claidiere (CNRS, France)
Date:
Wednesday, April 2, 2024
Time: 4
pm (to 5:30 pm) CET
Venue: D001
(QS Vienna) and
Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/94235796863?pwd=ypT78f5kbFiuTxT9TcJEGYA37Z3Sbo.1
Meeting ID: 942 3579 6863
Passcode: 299698
Chair: Gergely
Csibra and Mariem Diane
Title: New insights into the social cognition of non-human primates using automatic cognitive testing
Abstract: Humans live in large groups, and this is thought to have played a key role in the success of our species because group life can bring important benefits such as hunting
of large preys, defence against predators, division of labour, cooperative care of babies and infants, etc. However, group life results in a constant trade-off between group benefits resulting from coordination, cooperation and the sharing of information and
increased within-group competition for food and mating resources. To increase the benefits and mitigate the costs, humans use a variety of strategies to solve collective problems. I will present results from a set of recent experiments using the automatic
cognitive testing system developed by Joel Fagot in 2008 and revamped in 2018 that suggest that monkeys are also strategic when solving collective problems. We presented our group of 18 Guinea baboons (Papio papio) first with a coordination problem
and then with a cooperation one. We find that baboons develop systematic responses akin to human conventions with the coordination problem and use similar strategies to humans to solve the cooperation problem. These results show that Guinea baboons, like humans,
can fine tune their behaviour to the actions of their partners to solve collective problems. Our results support the idea that humans’ capacity for living in large cooperative groups is built upon deep evolutionary roots that allowed individuals to adjust
their behaviours to their partners to make the most of group benefits.
References:
Formaux, A., Sperber, D., Fagot, J., & Claidière, N. (2023). Guinea baboons are strategic cooperators.
Science Advances, 9(43), eadi5282. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi5282
Formaux, A., Paleressompoulle, D., Fagot, J., & Claidière, N. (2021).
The experimental emergence of convention in a non-human primate.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377(1843), 20200310. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0310
Bio: Nicolas Claidiere is a CNRS research director at the Centre de Recherche en Psychologie et Neuroscience in Marseille, France.
Director of the comparative cognition team and the Primate cognition and behaviour platform, he studies the evolution of social behaviour using a comparative approach with human and non-human primates. His main work focuses on social
learning and cultural evolution, social network and network dynamics, and collective problem solving.
Sincerely,
Reka
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Györgyné Finta (Réka) Department of Cognitive Science CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
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