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dc.contributor.authorWood, Lara Amanda Natalia
dc.contributor.authorWhiten, Andrew
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-15T08:45:24Z
dc.date.available2017-08-15T08:45:24Z
dc.date.issued2017-11
dc.identifier.citationWood , L A N & Whiten , A 2017 , ' Visible spatial contiguity of social information and reward affects social learning in brown capuchins (Sapajus apella) and children (Homo sapiens) ' , Journal of Comparative Psychology , vol. 131 , no. 4 , pp. 304-316 . https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000076en
dc.identifier.issn0735-7036
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 249733724
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 202d2ba6-ff38-4886-bc96-2cb547075671
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85021748464
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000415314700004
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-2426-5890/work/65014020
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/11463
dc.descriptionThis work was supported by a John Templeton Foundation grant ID 40128 awarded to A Whiten & K Lalanden
dc.description.abstractAnimal social learning is typically studied experimentally by the presentation of artificial foraging tasks. Although productive, results are often variable even for the same species. We present and test the hypothesis that one cause of variation is that spatial distance between rewards and the means of reward release causes conflicts for participants’ attentional focus. We investigated whether spatial contiguity between a visible reward and the means of release would affect behavioral responses that evidence social learning, testing 21 brown capuchins (Sapajus apella), a much studied species with variant evidence for social learning, and 180 two- to four-year old human children (Homo sapiens), a benchmark species known for a strong social learning disposition. Participants were presented with a novel transparent apparatus where a reward was either proximal or distal to a demonstrated means of releasing it. A distal reward location decreased attention towards the location of the demonstration and impaired subsequent success in gaining rewards. Generally, the capuchins produced the alternative method to that demonstrated whereas children copied the method demonstrated, although a distal reward location reduced copying in younger children. We conclude that some design features in common social learning tasks may significantly degrade the evidence for social learning. We have demonstrated this for two different primates but suggest that it is a significant factor to control for in social learning research across all taxa.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Comparative Psychologyen
dc.rights© American Psychological Association, 2017. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000076en
dc.subjectSocial learning mechanismsen
dc.subjectAttentionen
dc.subjectSpatial contiguityen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.titleVisible spatial contiguity of social information and reward affects social learning in brown capuchins (Sapajus apella) and children (Homo sapiens)en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorJohn Templeton Foundationen
dc.contributor.sponsorJohn Templeton Foundationen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1037/com0000076
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2017-05-25
dc.identifier.grantnumber40128en
dc.identifier.grantnumber40128en


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