2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An experimental study about behavioral synchrony and self-other representation in humans and non-human primates
| Project/Area Number |
24700260
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Cognitive science
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
HATTORI Yuko 京都大学, 霊長類研究所, 研究員 (60621670)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 同調行動 / 社会性 / チンパンジー / 霊長類 / 比較認知科学 |
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| Research Abstract |
Behavioral synchrony is considered as one of the important social foundaiton in humans. I experimentally investigated how similar or different tendency of entrainment to external rhythms in chimpanzees and humans. Using an electric keyboard, chimpanzees were trained to tap two keys alternatively. While their tapping, different external rhythms were palyed as distractor stimuli. The results indicated that spontaneous tendency to synchronize their tapping to auditory rhythms had been already acquired in the common ancestors between chimpanzees and humans.
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