Tufted capuchins ( Cebus apella ) adapt their communicative behaviour to human's attentional states

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[Charlotte Defolie, Raphaëlle Malassis, Marion Serre, Hélène Meunier]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
Animal Cognition, 18/3(2015-05-01), 747-755
Format:
Artikel (online)
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245 0 0 |a Tufted capuchins ( Cebus apella ) adapt their communicative behaviour to human's attentional states  |h [Elektronische Daten]  |c [Charlotte Defolie, Raphaëlle Malassis, Marion Serre, Hélène Meunier] 
520 3 |a Animal communication has become a widely studied field of research, especially because of the associated debates on the origin of human language. Due to their phylogenetic proximity with humans, non-human primates represent a suitable model to investigate the precursors of language. This study focuses on the perception of the attentional states of others, an important prerequisite to intentional communication. We investigated whether capuchins (Cebus apella) produce a learnt pointing gesture towards a hidden and unreachable food reward as a function of the attentional status of the human experimenter. For that purpose, we tested five subjects that we first trained to indicate by a pointing gesture towards the human partner the position of a reward hidden by an assistant. Then, capuchins were tested in two experimental conditions randomly ordered. In the first condition—motivation trial—the experimenter was attentive to the subject gestures and rewarded him immediately when it pointed towards the baited cylinder. During the second condition—test trial—the experimenter adopted one of the following attention states and the subject was rewarded after 10s has elapsed, regardless of the subject's behaviour. Five attentional states were tested: (1) experimenter absent, (2) experimenter back to the monkey, (3) experimenter's head away, (4) experimenter watching above the monkey, and (5) experimenter watching the monkey face. Our results reveal a variation in our subjects' communicative behaviours with a discrimination of the different postural clues (body and head orientation) available in our experimental conditions. This study suggests that capuchins can flexibly use a communicative gesture to adapt to the attentional state of their partner and provides evidence that acquired communicative gestures of monkeys might be used intentionally. 
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690 7 |a Gestural communication  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Intentionality  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Non-human primates  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Social cognition  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Attention  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Pointing  |2 nationallicence 
700 1 |a Defolie  |D Charlotte  |u Centre de Primatologie de l'Université de Strasbourg, Fort Foch, 67207, Niederhausbergen, France  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Malassis  |D Raphaëlle  |u Centre de Primatologie de l'Université de Strasbourg, Fort Foch, 67207, Niederhausbergen, France  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Serre  |D Marion  |u Centre de Primatologie de l'Université de Strasbourg, Fort Foch, 67207, Niederhausbergen, France  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Meunier  |D Hélène  |u Centre de Primatologie de l'Université de Strasbourg, Fort Foch, 67207, Niederhausbergen, France  |4 aut 
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950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Serre  |D Marion  |u Centre de Primatologie de l'Université de Strasbourg, Fort Foch, 67207, Niederhausbergen, France  |4 aut 
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