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dc.contributor.authorFuhrmann, Delia
dc.contributor.authorRavignani, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorMarshall-Pescini, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorWhiten, Andrew
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-12T09:31:01Z
dc.date.available2014-08-12T09:31:01Z
dc.date.issued2014-06-13
dc.identifier139779946
dc.identifier28f4abca-95b0-4e9b-9ba6-ec23e8108ab9
dc.identifier000337339800006
dc.identifier84902486134
dc.identifier000337339800006
dc.identifier.citationFuhrmann , D , Ravignani , A , Marshall-Pescini , S & Whiten , A 2014 , ' Synchrony and motor mimicking in chimpanzee observational learning ' , Scientific Reports , vol. 4 , 5283 . https://doi.org/10.1038/srep05283en
dc.identifier.issn2045-2322
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-2426-5890/work/65013967
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/5112
dc.descriptionA.R. was supported by ERC Advanced Grant 230604 SOMACCA to W. Tecumseh Fitch. SMP was supported by funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement n. [311870].en
dc.description.abstractCumulative tool-based culture underwrote our species' evolutionary success, and tool-based nut-cracking is one of the strongest candidates for cultural transmission in our closest relatives, chimpanzees. However the social learning processes that may explain both the similarities and differences between the species remain unclear. A previous study of nut-cracking by initially naive chimpanzees suggested that a learning chimpanzee holding no hammer nevertheless replicated hammering actions it witnessed. This observation has potentially important implications for the nature of the social learning processes and underlying motor coding involved. In the present study, model and observer actions were quantified frame-by-frame and analysed with stringent statistical methods, demonstrating synchrony between the observer's and model's movements, cross-correlation of these movements above chance level and a unidirectional transmission process from model to observer. These results provide the first quantitative evidence for motor mimicking underlain by motor coding in apes, with implications for mirror neuron function.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofScientific Reportsen
dc.subjectMirror neuronsen
dc.subjectWild chimpanzeesen
dc.subjectNut-crackingen
dc.subjectImitationen
dc.subjectCultureen
dc.subjectBehavioren
dc.subjectApesen
dc.subjectCoordinationen
dc.subjectTransmissionen
dc.subjectInhibitionen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.titleSynchrony and motor mimicking in chimpanzee observational learningen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. ‘Living Links to Human Evolution’ Research Centreen
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.doi10.1038/srep05283
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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