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Reflections of the social environment in chimpanzee memory: applying rational analysis beyond humans

机译:黑猩猩记忆中的社会环境思考:超越人类的理性分析

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In cognitive science, the rational analysis framework allows modelling of how physical and social environments impose information-processing demands onto cognitive systems. In humans, for example, past social contact among individuals predicts their future contact with linear and power functions. These features of the human environment constrain the optimal way to remember information and probably shape how memory records are retained and retrieved. We offer a primer on how biologists can apply rational analysis to study animal behaviour. Using chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) as a case study, we modelled 19 years of observational data on their social contact patterns. Much like humans, the frequency of past encounters in chimpanzees linearly predicted future encounters, and the recency of past encounters predicted future encounters with a power function. Consistent with the rational analyses carried out for human memory, these findings suggest that chimpanzee memory performance should reflect those environmental regularities. In re-analysing existing chimpanzee memory data, we found that chimpanzee memory patterns mirrored their social contact patterns. Our findings hint that human and chimpanzee memory systems may have evolved to solve similar information-processing problems. Overall, rational analysis offers novel theoretical and methodological avenues for the comparative study of cognition.
机译:在认知科学中,理性分析框架允许对物理和社会环境如何将信息处理需求强加给认知系统进行建模。例如,在人类中,个体之间过去的社会接触可以预测他们未来与线性和幂函数的接触。人类环境的这些特征限制了记忆信息的最佳方式,并可能影响记忆记录的保存和检索方式。我们为生物学家如何运用理性分析研究动物行为提供了入门。我们以黑猩猩(Pan troglodytes)为例,对19年的观察数据进行了建模,以了解它们的社交联系方式。就像人类一样,黑猩猩过去的遭遇频率线性地预测了未来的遭遇,而过去遭遇的新近度则用幂函数预测了未来的遭遇。与对人类记忆进行的理性分析一致,这些发现表明黑猩猩的记忆表现应反映出这些环境规律。在重新分析现有的黑猩猩记忆数据时,我们发现黑猩猩的记忆模式反映了他们的社交接触模式。我们的发现表明,人类和黑猩猩的存储系统可能已经进化为解决类似的信息处理问题。总体而言,理性分析为认知的比较研究提供了新颖的理论和方法论途径。

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