Biological origins of cultural behavior: comparative cognition of social learning and social cognition in primates

• Project/Area Number: 25730092
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Cognitive science
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: KODA Hiroki 京都大学, 霊長類研究所, 助教 (70418763)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
• Keywords: 比較認知 / 霊長類 / 社会認知 / 認知進化 / 行動伝播 / 学習 / 社会学習 / コミュニケーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this project, I aimed to reveal the primate cognitive foundations underlying the social learning and behavioral contagions from the perspectives of comparative cognitive science. For this purpose, I did variable kinds of experiments and observations for both each individual and whole subject group of nonhuman primates to measure their cognitive traits. Here I mainly found the importance of their ecological strategies on promoting the social learning in primate societies. Particularly, two strategies, anti-predator strategy and parenting strategy, would be a primary factor to rapidly promote the monkeys to learn the knowledge from the other group members. Under those "prepared" cognitive features which might be evolved as their ecological adaptation, their social leaning would progress depending on the social network in a group with the dynamic ways.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 霊長類の音声の運動基盤および多様性とその進化的な背景 (2015)
  • Author(s): 香田啓貴
  • Journal Title: 日本音響学会誌 Volume: 未定
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Immature male gibbons produce female-specific songs. (2014)
  • Author(s): Koda H, Oyakawa C, Kato A, Shimizu D, Rizaldi, Koyama Y, Hasegawa S
  • Journal Title: Primates Volume: 55 Issue: 1 Pages: 13-17
  • DOI: 10.1007/s10329-013-0390-2
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 霊長類の音声研究はヒトの言語進化の理解にこれからも貢献できるのか？ (2014)
  • Author(s): 香田啓貴
  • Journal Title: 霊長類研究 Volume: 30 Pages: 121-136
• [Journal Article] Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata) spontaneously associate alarm calls with snakes appearing in the left visual field. (2014)
  • Author(s): Shibasaki M, Nagumo S, Koda H
  • Journal Title: Journal of Comparative Psychology Volume: 未確定
  • NAID: 120005468371
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Is attentional prioritisation of infant faces unique in humans? : comp arative demonstrations by modified dot-probe task in monkeys. (2013)
  • Author(s): Hiroki Koda^1, Anna Sato^<12>, Akemi Kato^1
  • Journal Title: Behavioural Processes Volume: 98 Pages: 31-36
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2013.04.013
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Possible role of mother-daughter vocal interactions on the development of species-specific song in gibbons. (2013)
  • Author(s): Koda H., Lemasson A., Oyakawa C., Rizaldi, Pamungkas J., Masataka N
  • Journal Title: PLoS ONE Volume: 8(8) Issue: 8 Pages: e71432-e71432
  • DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071432
  • NAID: 120005323012
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Helium experiment and vocal physiology of the phee calls in common marmosets. (2015)
  • Author(s): Nishimura, T., Koda, H., Tokuda, I., Wakita, M., Ito, T.
  • Organizer: The 84th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists
  • Place of Presentation: St. Louis, USA
  • Year and Date: 2015-03-25 – 2015-03-28
• [Presentation] フサオマキザルの警戒音声の『文脈転用』 (2014)
  • Author(s): 香田啓貴，Klaus Zuberbuler
  • Organizer: 第33回日本動物行動学会
  • Place of Presentation: 長崎
  • Year and Date: 2014-11-01 – 2014-11-03
• [Presentation] マーモセットにおけるホイッスル様音声の生成メカニズム (2014)
  • Author(s): 西村剛, 香田啓貴, 徳田功，脇田真澄，伊藤毅
  • Organizer: 日本人類学会大会
  • Place of Presentation: 浜松
  • Year and Date: 2014-10-31 – 2014-11-03
• [Presentation] Understanding divergence of gibbon songs: past, present, and future studies. (2014)
  • Author(s): Koda, H
  • Organizer: International Symposium of Diversity and Conservation of Asian Primates
  • Place of Presentation: Bogor Agricultural University, Bogor, Indonesia
  • Year and Date: 2014-08-18 – 2014-08-21
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata) spontaneously associate alarm calls with snakes appearing in the left visual field. (2014)
  • Author(s): Koda, H., Shibasaki, M., Nagumo, S.
  • Organizer: International Primatological Society XXV Congress
  • Place of Presentation: Hanoi, Vietnam
  • Year and Date: 2014-08-11 – 2014-08-17
• [Presentation] Formant tuning technique in vocalizations of non-human primates. (2014)
  • Author(s): ⑥Koda, H., Tokuda, I., Oyakawa, C., Nihonmatsu, T., Wakita, M., Masataka, N., Nishimura, T.
  • Organizer: The 10th International Conference for Evolution of Language (EVOLANG10).
  • Place of Presentation: University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  • Year and Date: 2014-04-14 – 2014-04-17