2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Cognitive Abilities and Social Behavior in Aged Japanese Monkeys
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11610078
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
実験系心理学
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKAMICHI Masayuki Osaka University, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Associate Professor, 人間科学研究科, 助教授 (60183886)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2002
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| Keywords | Japanese monkeys / gorilla / Aging / Visuospatial memory / Social behavior / Mother-infant relationship / Scaffolding / Grandmother |
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| Research Abstract |
1. Old high-ranking males tended to maintain continuously affiliative relationships with some adult females, and such relationships are useful for the old males to maintain their high dominance positions. Females are more likely to concentrate their social activities toward their close relatives, compared with younger females.
2. The results of delayed response task show that the extremely aged females more than 30 years of age who could not survive in the wild are most heavily impaired in visuospatial memory and that post-reproductive females aged 25-29 years are next, while females in the first half of the twenties whose reproductive ability is decreasing can still maintain their ability which is as high as that for females aged less than 20.
3. The presence of grandmothers is beneficial to their grandchildren's survival during the first year after birth in only high-ranking kin-groups.
4. A gorilla mother's activities could be considered scaffolding for her young adult daughter with regard to maternal infant care.
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