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dc.contributor.authorWhiten, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorvan de Waal, Erica
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-27T00:34:08Z
dc.date.available2017-12-27T00:34:08Z
dc.date.issued2017-11
dc.identifier248457993
dc.identifierb5ebaf41-3c55-4cb8-962d-d28cb5c076cd
dc.identifier85008441580
dc.identifier000419418600007
dc.identifier.citationWhiten , A & van de Waal , E 2017 , ' Social learning, culture and the ‘socio-cultural brain’ of human and non-human primates ' , Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews , vol. 82 , pp. 58-75 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.12.018en
dc.identifier.issn0149-7634
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/12387
dc.descriptionAW was supported during the writing of this review by the John Templeton Foundation (grant number ID40128). EvdW was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant number P300P3-151187) and Society in Science - Branco Weiss Fellowship.en
dc.description.abstractNoting important recent discoveries, we review primate social learning, traditions and culture, together with associated findings about primate brains. We survey our current knowledge of primate cultures in the wild, and complementary experimental diffusion studies testing species’ capacity to sustain traditions. We relate this work to theories that seek to explain the enlarged brain size of primates as specializations for social intelligence, that have most recently extended to learning from others and the cultural transmission this permits. We discuss alternative theories and review a variety of recent findings that support cultural intelligence hypotheses for primate encephalization. At a more fine-grained neuroscientific level we focus on the underlying processes of social learning, especially emulation and imitation. Here, our own and others’ recent research has established capacities for bodily imitation in both monkeys and apes, results that are consistent with a role for the mirror neuron system in social learning. We review important convergences between behavioural findings and recent non-invasive neuroscientific studies.
dc.format.extent710925
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofNeuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviewsen
dc.subjectSocial learningen
dc.subjectImitationen
dc.subjectCultureen
dc.subjectPrimatesen
dc.subjectVervet monkeysen
dc.subjectChimpanzeesen
dc.subjectSocial brainen
dc.subjectSocial intelligenceen
dc.subjectCultural intelligence hypothesisen
dc.subjectMirror neuronsen
dc.subjectAutismen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.titleSocial learning, culture and the ‘socio-cultural brain’ of human and non-human primatesen
dc.typeJournal itemen
dc.contributor.sponsorJohn Templeton Foundationen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.12.018
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2017-12-26
dc.identifier.grantnumber40128en


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