The evolution of primate short-term memory
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In: Animal Behavior and Cognition, Vol. 9, No. 4, 05.12.2021, p. 428-516.
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T1 - The evolution of primate short-term memory
AU - ManyPrimates
AU - Aguenouno, Géraud
AU - Allritz, Matthias
AU - Altschul, Drew M.
AU - Ballesta, Sébastien
AU - Beaud , Alice
AU - Bohn, Manuel
AU - Bornbusch, Sally
AU - Brandão, Angela
AU - Brooks, James
AU - Bugnyar, Thomas
AU - Bustamante, Léa
AU - Call, Josep
AU - Canteloup, Charlotte
AU - Caspar, Kai
AU - Detroy, Sarah
AU - Duguid, Shona J.
AU - Eppley, Timothy M.
AU - Fichtel, Claudia
AU - Fischer, Julia
AU - Gong, Chi
AU - Grang, James A.
AU - Grebe, Nicholas M.
AU - Hanus, Daniel
AU - Haun, Daniel B.M.
AU - Haux, Lou M.
AU - Héjja - Brichard, Yseult
AU - Helman, Annabella
AU - Hernadi, Istvan
AU - Hernandez-Aguilar, R. Adriana
AU - Herrmann, Esther
AU - Hopper, Lydia M.
AU - Howard, Lauren H.
AU - Huang, Lei
AU - Huskisson, Sarah M.
AU - Jacobs, Ivo
AU - Jin, Zhiyong
AU - Joly, Marine
AU - Kano, Fumihiro
AU - Keupp, Stefanie
AU - Kiefer, Evelin
AU - Knakker, Balázs
AU - Kóczán, Katalin
AU - Kraus, Larissa
AU - Kwok, Sze Chai
AU - Lefrançois, Marie
AU - Lewis, Laura
AU - Liu, Siyi
AU - Llorente, Miquel
AU - Lonsdorf, Elizabeth
AU - Loyant, Louise
PY - 2021/12/5
Y1 - 2021/12/5
N2 - Short-term memory is implicated in a range of cognitive abilities and is critical for understanding primate cognitive evolution. To investigate the effects of phylogeny, ecology and sociality on short-term memory ability, we tested 421 non-human primates across 41 species in a pre-registered, experimental delayed-response task. Our results confirm previous findings that longer delays decrease memory performance across species and taxa. Our analyses demonstrate a considerable contribution of phylogeny over ecological and social factors on the distribution of short-term memory performance in primates; closely related species had more similar short-term memory abilities. However, interdependencies between phylogeny and socioecology of a given species present an obstacle to disentangling the effects of each of these factors on the evolution of short-term memory capacity. The dataset corresponding to the study is freely accessible and constitutes an important resource for studying the evolution of primate cognition.
AB - Short-term memory is implicated in a range of cognitive abilities and is critical for understanding primate cognitive evolution. To investigate the effects of phylogeny, ecology and sociality on short-term memory ability, we tested 421 non-human primates across 41 species in a pre-registered, experimental delayed-response task. Our results confirm previous findings that longer delays decrease memory performance across species and taxa. Our analyses demonstrate a considerable contribution of phylogeny over ecological and social factors on the distribution of short-term memory performance in primates; closely related species had more similar short-term memory abilities. However, interdependencies between phylogeny and socioecology of a given species present an obstacle to disentangling the effects of each of these factors on the evolution of short-term memory capacity. The dataset corresponding to the study is freely accessible and constitutes an important resource for studying the evolution of primate cognition.
KW - Psychology
KW - cognitive evolution
KW - phylogenetic analysis
KW - primate cognition
KW - short-term memory
U2 - 10.31234/osf.io/5etnf
DO - 10.31234/osf.io/5etnf
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 9
SP - 428
EP - 516
JO - Animal Behavior and Cognition
JF - Animal Behavior and Cognition
SN - 2372-5052
IS - 4
ER -