A convergent interaction engine: vocal communication among marmoset monkeys

Burkart, Judith M.; Adriaense, Jessie E. C.; Brügger, Rahel K.; Wierucka, Kaja; Schaik, Carel P. van

doi:10.1098/rstb.2021.0098

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“…In scrutinizing repetition and elaboration in gesture use, the authors find that the research setting predicts elaborated gestural redoings in Bornean orangutans (the less socially tolerant species in the wild), insofar as elaboration is more frequent in captive compared with wild individuals and more successful in captivity. This confirms the idea that both the immediate and developmental environments shape a species' interactional ethology, emphasizing how social and environmental factors can trigger the emergence of certain interaction engine capacities (see also [ 11 ]).…”

Section: Revisiting the Interaction Engine: Nearly Two Decades Latersupporting

confidence: 83%

“…Although an exhaustive list of the interaction engine's elements seems to be missing, most researchers would probably agree that they relate to four major components [ 1 – 3 , 11 ]: multimodality (here summarized as the ability to communicate through different sensory channels (visual, auditory, acoustic) and organs (e.g. hands or mouth), [ 6 , 12 ]), sequence organization (communicative acts that have a contingent relationship with the previous and following act, presuming a normative obligation to deliver appropriate responses at the next best occasion, [ 13 , 14 ]), turn-taking (rapid turns at talking with minimal response gaps between conversational turns, [ 15 , 16 ]) and intentionality (the ability to communicate and respond to intentions not behaviours, [ 1 , 3 ]).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Looking beyond phylogenetic origins, Judith Burkart and her colleagues [ 11 ] discuss the role of convergent evolution in the emergence of specific interaction engine features. They point to a double legacy in humans, with a powerful cognitive apparatus inherited from ape-like ancestors on the one hand, and novel motivational components added as result of convergent evolution on the other (e.g.…”

Section: Revisiting the Interaction Engine: Nearly Two Decades Latermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…shared levels of prosociality linked to the cooperative breeding systems of callitrichid monkeys and humans). According to the authors, it is the combination between phylogenetic and convergent components that must have shaped our unique set of socio-cognitive skills [ 11 ]. Nonetheless, it requires further scientific scrutiny to understand which elements were shaped by environments or social systems like cooperative breeding, and which were phylogenetically inherited from our ape-like ancestors.…”

Section: Revisiting the Interaction Engine: Nearly Two Decades Latermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Studies from recent years have already compiled an interesting set of evidence, warranting an update of the interaction engine hypothesis. Some species of nonhuman primates were shown to engage in communicative turn-taking [11,21,22], exhibit communication that is apparently organized in sequences, or 'adjacency pairs' [21,23,24], engage in latent forms of self-initiated, communicative repair [25,26], and communicate and behave in ways suggestive of joint commitment [23,[27][28][29][30]. But if many of our socio-cognitive abilities are not uniquely derived, what made language evolution possible?…”

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Revisiting the human ‘interaction engine’: comparative approaches to social action coordination

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2022

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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The evolution of language was likely facilitated by a special predisposition for social interaction, involving a set of communicative and cognitive skills summarized as the ‘interaction engine'. This assemblage seems to emerge early in development, to be found universally across cultures, and to enable participation in sophisticated joint action through the addition of spoken language. Yet, new evidence on social action coordination and communication in nonhuman primates warrants an update of the interaction engine hypothesis, particularly with respect to the evolutionary origins of its specific ingredients. However, one enduring problem for comparative research results from a conceptual gulf between disciplines, rendering it difficult to test concepts derived from human interaction research in nonhuman animals. The goal of this theme issue is to make such concepts accessible for comparative research, to promote a fruitful interdisciplinary debate on social action coordination as a new arena of research, and to enable mutual fertilization between human and nonhuman interaction research. In consequence, we here consider relevant theoretical and empirical research within and beyond this theme issue to revisit the interaction engine's shared, convergently derived and uniquely derived ingredients preceding (or perhaps in the last case, succeeding) human language. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Revisiting the human ‘interaction engine’: comparative approaches to social action coordination’.

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Section: Revisiting the Interaction Engine: Nearly Two Decades Latersupporting

confidence: 83%

Section: The Human Interaction Engine Hypothesismentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Revisiting the Interaction Engine: Nearly Two Decades Latermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Revisiting the Interaction Engine: Nearly Two Decades Latermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Individual differences in co-representation in three monkey species (Callithrix jacchus, Sapajus apella and Macaca tonkeana) in the joint Simon task: the role of social factors and inhibitory control

2022

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Behavioral coordination is involved in many forms of primate interactions. Co-representation is the simultaneous mental representation of one’s own and the partner’s task and actions. It often underlies behavioral coordination and cooperation success. In humans, the dyadic social context can modulate co-representation. Here, we first investigated whether individual differences in co-representation in the joint Simon task in capuchin monkeys and Tonkean macaques can be explained by social factors, namely dyadic grooming and sociality index, rank difference and eigenvector centrality. These factors did not predict variation in co-representation. However, in this specific task, co-representation reduces rather than facilitates joint performance. Automatic co-representation therefore needs to be inhibited or suppressed to maximize cooperation success. We therefore also investigated whether general inhibitory control (detour-reaching) would predict co-representation in the joint Simon task in Tonkean macaques, brown capuchin and marmoset monkeys. Inhibitory control did neither explain individual differences nor species differences, since marmosets were most successful in their joint performance despite scoring lowest on inhibitory control. These results suggest that the animals’ ability to resolve conflicts between self and other representation to increase cooperation success in this task is gradually learned due to frequent exposure during shared infant care, rather than determined by strong general inhibitory control. Further, we conclude that the joint Simon task, while useful to detect co-representation non-invasively, is less suitable for identifying the factors explaining individual differences and thus a more fruitful approach to identify these factors is to design tasks in which co-representation favors, rather than hinders cooperation success.

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