Establishing an infrastructure for collaboration in primate cognition research

被引：97

作者：

Altschul, Drew M. ^{[1
]}

Beran, Michael J. ^{[2
]}

Bohn, Manuel ^{[3
,4
]}

Call, Josep ^{[5
]}

De Troy, Sarah ^{[4
]}

Duguid, Shona J. ^{[6
]}

Egelkamp, Crystal L. ^{[7
]}

Fichtel, Claudia ^{[8
,9
]}

Fischer, Julia ^{[8
,9
]}

Flessert, Molly ^{[2
]}

Hanus, Daniel ^{[10
]}

Haun, Daniel B. M. ^{[4
,10
]}

Haux, Lou M. ^{[11
]}

Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, R. ^{[12
,13
]}

Herrmann, Esther ^{[10
]}

Hopper, Lydia M. ^{[7
]}

Joly, Marine ^{[14
]}

Kano, Fumihiro ^{[15
]}

Keupp, Stefanie ^{[8
,9
]}

Melis, Alicia P. ^{[6
]}

Rodrigo, Alba Motes ^{[16
]}

Ross, Stephen R. ^{[7
]}

Sanchez-Amaro, Alejandro ^{[10
,17
]}

Sato, Yutaro ^{[15
]}

Schmitt, Vanessa ^{[18
,19
]}

Schweinfurth, Manon K. ^{[5
]}

Seed, Amanda M. ^{[5
]}

Taylor, Derry ^{[14
]}

Voelter, Christoph J. ^{[5
,20
]}

Warren, Elizabeth ^{[5
]}

Watzek, Julia ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

[2] Georgia State Univ, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA

[3] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA

[4] Univ Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

[5] Univ St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland

[6] Univ Warwick, Warwick Business Sch, Coventry, W Midlands, England

[7] Lincoln Pk Zoo, Chicago, IL USA

[8] German Primate Ctr, Gottingen, Germany

[9] Leibniz Sci Campus Primate Cognit, Gottingen, Germany

[10] Max Planck Inst Evolutionary Anthropol, Leipzig, Germany

[11] Max Planck Inst Human Dev, Ctr Adapt Rational, Berlin, Germany

[12] Univ Oslo, Ctr Ecol & Evolutionary Synth, Oslo, Norway

[13] Univ Barcelona, Dept Social Psychol & Quantitat Psychol, Barcelona, Spain

[14] Univ Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Hants, England

[15] Kyoto Univ, Kyoto, Japan

[16] Univ Tubigen, Tubingen, Germany

[17] Univ Calif San Diego, San Diego, CA 92103 USA

[18] Heidelberg Zoo, Heidelberg, Germany

[19] Heidelberg Univ, Heidelberg, Germany

[20] Univ Vienna, Med Univ Vienna, Univ Vet Med Vienna, Messerli Res Inst, Vienna, Austria

来源：

PLOS ONE | 2019年 / 14卷 / 10期

基金：

日本学术振兴会;

关键词：

SHORT-TERM-MEMORY; WORKING-MEMORY; DELAYED-REACTION; PAN-TROGLODYTES; SOCIAL COGNITION; GREAT APES; CHIMPANZEES; REPRODUCIBILITY; REPLICABILITY; INTELLIGENCE;

D O I：

10.1371/journal.pone.0223675

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Inferring the evolutionary history of cognitive abilities requires large and diverse samples. However, such samples are often beyond the reach of individual researchers or institutions, and studies are often limited to small numbers of species. Consequently, methodological and site-specific-differences across studies can limit comparisons between species. Here we introduce the ManyPrimates project, which addresses these challenges by providing a large-scale collaborative framework for comparative studies in primate cognition. To demonstrate the viability of the project we conducted a case study of short-term memory. In this initial study, we were able to include 176 individuals from 12 primate species housed at 11 sites across Africa, Asia, North America and Europe. All subjects were tested in a delayed response task using consistent methodology across sites. Individuals could access food rewards by remembering the position of the hidden reward after a 0, 15, or 30-second delay. Overall, individuals performed better with shorter delays, as predicted by previous studies. Phylogenetic analysis revealed a strong phylogenetic signal for short-term memory. Although, with only 12 species, the validity of this analysis is limited, our initial results demonstrate the feasibility of a large, collaborative open-science project. We present the ManyPrimates project as an exciting opportunity to address open questions in primate cognition and behaviour with large, diverse datasets.

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