Chimpanzee vocal communication: what we know from the wild

Slocombe, Katie E.; Lahiff, Nicole J; Wilke, Claudia; Townsend, Simon W.

doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101171

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“…If language and teaching have potentially co-evolved with tool use during human phylogeny, how does tool use in primates relate to that? It has been shown that chimpanzees exhibit emulation and imitation learning (but not necessarily teaching), communicate flexibly with gestures (and perhaps even vocalizations), and pass on tool use to the next generation (Whiten et al, 1999;Horner and Whiten, 2005;Pika et al, 2005;Slocombe et al, 2022). A current research topic is compositionality in their gestures and vocalizations and how this is linked to tool use (Steele et al, 2012;Amici et al, 2022;Girard-Buttoz et al, 2022).…”

Section: Tool Manipulation Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Tool mastering today – an interdisciplinary perspective

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Tools have coined human life, living conditions, and culture. Recognizing the cognitive architecture underlying tool use would allow us to comprehend its evolution, development, and physiological basis. However, the cognitive underpinnings of tool mastering remain little understood in spite of long-time research in neuroscientific, psychological, behavioral and technological fields. Moreover, the recent transition of tool use to the digital domain poses new challenges for explaining the underlying processes. In this interdisciplinary review, we propose three building blocks of tool mastering: (A) perceptual and motor abilities integrate to tool manipulation knowledge, (B) perceptual and cognitive abilities to functional tool knowledge, and (C) motor and cognitive abilities to means-end knowledge about tool use. This framework allows for integrating and structuring research findings and theoretical assumptions regarding the functional architecture of tool mastering via behavior in humans and non-human primates, brain networks, as well as computational and robotic models. An interdisciplinary perspective also helps to identify open questions and to inspire innovative research approaches. The framework can be applied to studies on the transition from classical to modern, non-mechanical tools and from analogue to digital user-tool interactions in virtual reality, which come with increased functional opacity and sensorimotor decoupling between tool user, tool, and target. By working towards an integrative theory on the cognitive architecture of the use of tools and technological assistants, this review aims at stimulating future interdisciplinary research avenues.

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Section: Tool Manipulation Knowledgementioning

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“…Vocalizations coordinate social interactions in animals through the information they encode [1][2][3]. This information is decoded by the recipients, allowing them to respond accordingly.…”

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Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )

Langehennig-Peristenidou,

Scheumann

2024

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Vocalizations coordinate social interactions between conspecifics by conveying information concerning the individual or group identity of the sender. Social accommodation is a form of vocal learning where social affinity is signalled by converging or diverging vocalizations with those of conspecifics. To investigate whether social accommodation is linked to the social lifestyle of the sender, we investigated sex-specific differences in social accommodation in a dispersed living primate, the grey mouse lemur ( Microcebus murinus ), where females form stable sleeping groups whereas males live solitarily. We used 482 trill calls of 36 individuals from our captive breeding colony to compare acoustic dissimilarity between individuals with genetic relatedness, social contact time and body weight. Our results showed that female trills become more similar the more time females spend with each other, independent of genetic relationship, suggesting vocal convergence. In contrast, male trills were affected more by genetic than social factors. However, focusing only on socialized males, increasing time as cage partners caused greater divergence in males’ trills. Thus, grey mouse lemurs show the capacity for social accommodation, with females converging their trills to signal social closeness to sleeping group partners, whereas males do not adapt or diverge their trills to signal individual distinctiveness. This article is part of the theme issue 'The power of sound: unravelling how acoustic communication shapes group dynamics'.

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“…Chimpanzees have some vocal control and ability to modify their vocal behavior as a function of their social environment. 12 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 Taken together, they are a suitable species for examining the potential of precondition (b), which, to our knowledge, has never been assessed in animals.…”

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Chimpanzees show the capacity to communicate about concomitant daily life events

Bortolato,

Friederici,

Girard-Buttoz

et al. 2023

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Chimpanzee vocal communication: what we know from the wild

Cited by 3 publications

References 55 publications

Tool mastering today – an interdisciplinary perspective

Tool mastering today – an interdisciplinary perspective

Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )

Chimpanzees show the capacity to communicate about concomitant daily life events

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