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dc.contributor.authorPetit, Odile
dc.contributor.authorDufour, Valerie
dc.contributor.authorHerrenschmidt, Marie
dc.contributor.authorDe Marco, Arianna
dc.contributor.authorSterck, Elisabeth H. M.
dc.contributor.authorCall, Josep
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-20T00:12:40Z
dc.date.available2016-02-20T00:12:40Z
dc.date.issued2015-07
dc.identifier240324864
dc.identifier7ed8b3ee-e7fa-4827-906d-6942f3e608a4
dc.identifier000355923300002
dc.identifier84930537546
dc.identifier.citationPetit , O , Dufour , V , Herrenschmidt , M , De Marco , A , Sterck , E H M & Call , J 2015 , ' Inferences about food location in three cercopithecine species : an insight into the socioecological cognition of primates ' , Animal Cognition , vol. 18 , no. 4 , pp. 821-830 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-015-0848-2en
dc.identifier.issn1435-9448
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-8597-8336/work/37478054
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/8273
dc.description.abstractMany animal species use a variety of cognitive strategies to locate food resources. One strategy is to make inferences by exclusion, i.e., perceiving the absence of reward as a cue that another location should be investigated. The use of such advanced cognitive strategies may be more prominent in species that are known to frequently solve social challenges, and inferential reasoning has mainly been investigated in social species such as corvids, dogs, dolphins and non-human primates. In this paper, we investigate how far social intricacy may explain the disparity of reasoning performances observed in three cercopithecine species that differ in the density of their social network and the diversity of their social partners. We used standard reasoning tasks, testing the volume concept and inference by exclusion using visual and auditory modalities. We showed that Old World monkeys can infer the location of invisible food by exclusion. In addition, Tonkean macaques and olive baboons had greater performances in most tasks compared to rhesus macaques. These responses are consistent with the social complexity displayed by these three species. We suggest that the cognitive strategies required to navigate through a demanding social world are involved in the understanding of the physical domain.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofAnimal Cognitionen
dc.subjectInference by exclusionen
dc.subjectCausal reasoningen
dc.subjectSocial complexityen
dc.subjectMacaca tonkeanaen
dc.subjectPapio hamadryas Anubisen
dc.subjectM. mulattaen
dc.subjectQL Zoologyen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subject.lccQLen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.titleInferences about food location in three cercopithecine species : an insight into the socioecological cognition of primatesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10071-015-0848-2
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2016-02-20


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