The Association between Imitation Recognition and Socio-Communicative Competencies in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
Imitation recognition provides a viable platform from which advanced social cognitive skills may develop. Despite evidence that non-human primates are capable of imitation recognition, how this ability is related to social cognitive skills is unknown. In this study, we compared imitation recogniti...
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| author | Sarah M Pope Sarah M Pope Jamie eRussell Jamie eRussell William D Hopkins William D Hopkins |
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| description | Imitation recognition provides a viable platform from which advanced social cognitive skills may develop. Despite evidence that non-human primates are capable of imitation recognition, how this ability is related to social cognitive skills is unknown. In this study, we compared imitation recognition performance, as indicated by the production of testing behaviors, with performance on a series of tasks that assess social and physical cognition in 49 chimpanzees. In the initial analyses, we found that males were more responsive than females to being imitated and engaged in significantly greater behavior repetitions and testing sequences. We also found that subjects who consistently recognized being imitated performed better on social but not physical cognitive tasks, as measured by the Primate Cognitive Test Battery. These findings suggest that the neural constructs underlying imitation recognition are likely associated with or among those underlying more general socio-communicative abilities in chimpanzees. Implications regarding how imitation recognition may facilitate other social cognitive processes, such as mirror self-recognition, are discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bead2436832348b69fca36be656a81712022-12-22T02:31:40ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782015-02-01610.3389/fpsyg.2015.00188125377The Association between Imitation Recognition and Socio-Communicative Competencies in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)Sarah M Pope0Sarah M Pope1Jamie eRussell2Jamie eRussell3William D Hopkins4William D Hopkins5Georgia State UniversityAix-Marseille UniversitéGeorgia State UniversityYerkes National Primate Research CenterGeorgia State UniversityYerkes National Primate Research CenterImitation recognition provides a viable platform from which advanced social cognitive skills may develop. Despite evidence that non-human primates are capable of imitation recognition, how this ability is related to social cognitive skills is unknown. In this study, we compared imitation recognition performance, as indicated by the production of testing behaviors, with performance on a series of tasks that assess social and physical cognition in 49 chimpanzees. In the initial analyses, we found that males were more responsive than females to being imitated and engaged in significantly greater behavior repetitions and testing sequences. We also found that subjects who consistently recognized being imitated performed better on social but not physical cognitive tasks, as measured by the Primate Cognitive Test Battery. These findings suggest that the neural constructs underlying imitation recognition are likely associated with or among those underlying more general socio-communicative abilities in chimpanzees. Implications regarding how imitation recognition may facilitate other social cognitive processes, such as mirror self-recognition, are discussed.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00188/fullImitationsocial cognitionchimpanzeesMirror self recognitionimitation recognition |
| spellingShingle | Sarah M Pope Sarah M Pope Jamie eRussell Jamie eRussell William D Hopkins William D Hopkins The Association between Imitation Recognition and Socio-Communicative Competencies in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Frontiers in Psychology Imitation social cognition chimpanzees Mirror self recognition imitation recognition |
| title | The Association between Imitation Recognition and Socio-Communicative Competencies in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) |
| title_full | The Association between Imitation Recognition and Socio-Communicative Competencies in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) |
| title_fullStr | The Association between Imitation Recognition and Socio-Communicative Competencies in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Association between Imitation Recognition and Socio-Communicative Competencies in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) |
| title_short | The Association between Imitation Recognition and Socio-Communicative Competencies in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) |
| title_sort | association between imitation recognition and socio communicative competencies in chimpanzees pan troglodytes |
| topic | Imitation social cognition chimpanzees Mirror self recognition imitation recognition |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00188/full |
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