Primate Communication

Author : Anne Vilain,Jean-Luc Schwartz,Christian Abry,Jacques Vauclair
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789027287311

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Primate Communication and Human Language by Anne Vilain,Jean-Luc Schwartz,Christian Abry,Jacques Vauclair Pdf

After a long period where it has been conceived as iconoclastic and almost forbidden, the question of language origins is now at the centre of a rich debate, confronting acute proposals and original theories. Most importantly, the debate is nourished by a large set of experimental data from disciplines surrounding language. The editors of the present book have gathered researchers from various fields, with the common objective of taking as seriously as possible the search for continuities from non-human primate vocal and gestural communication systems to human speech and language, in a multidisciplinary perspective combining ethology, neuroscience, developmental psychology and linguistics, as well as computer science and robotics. New data and theoretical elaborations on the emergence of referential communication and language are debated here by some of the most creative scientists in the world.

Author : Katja Liebal,Bridget M. Waller,Katie E. Slocombe,Anne M. Burrows
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521195041

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Primate Communication by Katja Liebal,Bridget M. Waller,Katie E. Slocombe,Anne M. Burrows Pdf

Multimodal approach to primate communication with focus on its cognitive foundations and how this relates to theories of language evolution.

Author : Charles T. Snowdon,Charles H. Brown,Michael R. Petersen
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521246903

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Primate Communication by Charles T. Snowdon,Charles H. Brown,Michael R. Petersen Pdf

Author : Rolf M. Quam,Marissa A. Ramsier,Richard R. Fay,Arthur N. Popper
Publisher : Humana Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319594781

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Primate Hearing and Communication by Rolf M. Quam,Marissa A. Ramsier,Richard R. Fay,Arthur N. Popper Pdf

Presents a comprehensive review of nonhuman primate audition and vocal communication. These are obviously intimately related topics, but are often addressed separately. The hearing abilities of primates have been tested experimentally in a large number of species across the primate order, and these studies have revealed both consistent patterns as well as interesting variation within and between taxonomic groups. Recent studies have shed light on how variation in anatomical structures along the auditory pathway relates to variation in auditory sensitivity. At the same time, ongoing studies of vocal communication in wild primate populations continue to reveal new insights into the social and environmental contexts of many primate calls, and the range of known primate vocalizations has increased dramatically with the development of more sophisticated and accessible auditory equipment and software that enables the recording and analysis of higher-fidelity and broader-band recordings, including documenting very high frequency (i.e. ultrasound) vocalizations. Historically the relative importance of primate calls has been evaluated qualitatively by the perception of the researcher, but new methods and approaches now enable a greater appreciation for how signals are used and perceived by the primates in question. The integration of anatomical and behavioral data on acoustic communication and the environmental correlates thereof has significant potential for reconstructing behavior in the fossil record. This confluence of factors and accumulating evidence for the sophistication and complexity in both the signal and its interpretation indicate that a book synthesizing this information across primates is warranted and represents an important contribution to the literature.

Author : Marco Pina,Nathalie Gontier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319026695

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The Evolution of Social Communication in Primates by Marco Pina,Nathalie Gontier Pdf

How did social communication evolve in primates? In this volume, primatologists, linguists, anthropologists, cognitive scientists and philosophers of science systematically analyze how their specific disciplines demarcate the research questions and methodologies involved in the study of the evolutionary origins of social communication in primates in general and in humans in particular. In the first part of the book, historians and philosophers of science address how the epistemological frameworks associated with primate communication and language evolution studies have changed over time and how these conceptual changes affect our current studies on the subject matter. In the second part, scholars provide cutting-edge insights into the various means through which primates communicate socially in both natural and experimental settings. They examine the behavioral building blocks by which primates communicate and they analyze what the cognitive requirements are for displaying communicative acts. Chapters highlight cross-fostering and language experiments with primates, primate mother-infant communication, the display of emotions and expressions, manual gestures and vocal signals, joint attention, intentionality and theory of mind. The primary focus of the third part is on how these various types of communicative behavior possibly evolved and how they can be understood as evolutionary precursors to human language. Leading scholars analyze how both manual and vocal gestures gave way to mimetic and imitational protolanguage and how the latter possibly transitioned into human language. In the final part, we turn to the hominin lineage, and anthropologists, archeologists and linguists investigate what the necessary neurocognitive, anatomical and behavioral features are in order for human language to evolve and how language differs from other forms of primate communication.

Author : Anne Vilain,Jean-Luc Schwartz,Christian Abry,Jacques Vauclair
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027204547

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Primate Communication and Human Language by Anne Vilain,Jean-Luc Schwartz,Christian Abry,Jacques Vauclair Pdf

After a long period where it has been conceived as iconoclastic and almost forbidden, the question of language origins is now at the centre of a rich debate, confronting acute proposals and original theories. Most importantly, the debate is nourished by a large set of experimental data from disciplines surrounding language. The editors of the present book have gathered researchers from various fields, with the common objective of taking as seriously as possible the search for "continuities" from non-human primate vocal and gestural communication systems to human speech and language, in a multidisciplinary perspective combining ethology, neuroscience, developmental psychology and linguistics, as well as computer science and robotics. New data and theoretical elaborations on the emergence of referential communication and language are debated here by some of the most creative scientists in the world.

Author : U. Jürgens,J. Newman,E. Zimmermann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781475799309

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Current Topics in Primate Vocal Communication by U. Jürgens,J. Newman,E. Zimmermann Pdf

More than 25 years ago, the first major review of primate communication appeared (Altmann, 1967). Since then, information on the communicative abilities of primates increased rapidly, resulting, 15 years later, in the appearance of the first volume in which signaling systems were analyzed in a broader variety of primate groups within an evolutionary perspective (Snowdon, Brown and Petersen, 1982). Seven years later, the first volume dedicated solely to primate vocal communication appeared (Todt, Goedeking and Symmes, 1988) and another four years later a volume followed in which nonverbal vocal communication in non-human primates and human infants was compared (Papousek, Jurgens and Papousek, 1992). None of these volumes, however, provided information about current technical advances in the field of bioacoustics, especially in digital sound analyzing systems, which offer primatologists, anthropologists and linguists nowadays a variety of rapid methods for analyzing human speech and non-human primate vocalizations in a quantitative and comparative way. Choosing the right method is difficult if a synopsis of these tools is lacking. Furthermore, information was particularly lacking on the natural signaling systems of two important primate groups, the prosimians and the apes. Likewise, new and unexpected insights into the ontogeny and evolution of vocal communication were gained during the past few years by the use of highly sophisticated sound analysis and statistical techniques.

Author : Josep Call,Michael Tomasello
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000149555

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The Gestural Communication of Apes and Monkeys by Josep Call,Michael Tomasello Pdf

The Gestural Communication of Apes and Monkeys is an intriguing compilation of naturalistic and experimental research conducted over the course of 20 years on gestural communication in primates, as well as a comparison to what is known about the vocal communication of nonhuman primates. The editors also make systematic comparisons to the gestural communication of prelinguistic and just-linguistic human children. An enlightening exploration unfolds into what may represent the starting point for the evolution of human communication and language. This especially significant read is organized into nine chapters that discuss: *the gestural repertoire of chimpanzees; *gestures in orangutans, subadult gorillas, and siamangs; *gestural communication in Barbary macaques; and *a comparison of the gestures of apes and monkeys. This book will appeal to psychologists, anthropologists, and linguists interested in the evolutionary origins of language and/or gestures, as well as to all primatologists. A CD insert offers video of gestures for each of the species.

Author : Rom Harré,Vernon Reynolds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521087732

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The Meaning of Primate Signals by Rom Harré,Vernon Reynolds Pdf

Language is just one particularly highly developed form of primate communication. Recent years have seen increased attention to other forms: studies of animals in the wild, efforts to teach sign language to apes. This volume reflects perspectives from a variety of disciplines on the nature and function of primate signalling systems. Monkeys and apes, like people, live in a world in which they are constantly receiving and transmitting information. How can we interpret the ways in which they process it without imposing our own language-based categorizations? The problem is partly scientific, partly conceptual: that is, partly concerned with what language is. The authors' findings and insights will be of interest to a broad group of primatologists, linguists, psychologists, anthropologists and philosophers.

Author : Horest Steklis
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323155205

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Neurobiology of Social Communication In Primates by Horest Steklis Pdf

Neurobiology of Social Communication in Primates: An Evolutionary Perspective presents evidence on the neural basis of communicative behavior in primates, reevaluating the relationship between human language and animal communication in view of the linguistic abilities of chimpanzees. This book consists of 10 chapters. Chapter 1 discusses some of the persistent problems in evolutionary neurobiology of primate communication. The effects of brain lesions and stimulation on vocalization in New and Old World monkeys, relation between species differences in peripheral vocal structures and species contrasts in vocal performance, and anatomy and physiology of the nonhuman primate auditory system are reviewed in Chapters 2 to 4. Chapters 5 to 7 examine the effects of electrical brain stimulation on human verbal communication and facial expression, clinical data pertaining to language pathologies, and neural mechanisms of manual and oral control. The last three chapters summarize the materials presented in earlier chapters. This publication is recommended for neuroscientists, behavioral biologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, and students interested in the evolutionary heritage of human speech and language.

Author : Dietmar Todt,Philipp Goedeking,David Symmes
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642737695

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Primate Vocal Communication by Dietmar Todt,Philipp Goedeking,David Symmes Pdf

Communication is both a prerequisite and manifestation of social organization and in this sense several chapters of this volume are aimed to investigate the way vocal communication serves its ultimate function of maintaining social organization. Although manifold parallels exist to vocal communication in birds, additional mechanisms of vocalization are found in primates. Treating the various psychological, ecological, behavioral, and neurobiological aspects of vocalization this book provides an interdisciplinary approach for the understanding of biocommunication in primates including humans. Conceptual as well as methodological considerations are given in a balanced way. The addition of a comprehensive glossary gives an overview also to nonspecialists in this field.

Author : Katja Liebal,Cornelia Müller,Simone Pika
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789027291868

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Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates by Katja Liebal,Cornelia Müller,Simone Pika Pdf

Research into gestures represents a multifaceted field comprising a wide range of disciplines and research topics, varying methods and approaches, and even different species such as humans, apes and monkeys. The aim of this volume (originally published as a Special Issue of Gesture 5:1/2 (2005)) is to bring together the research in gestural communication in both nonhuman and human primates and to explore the potential of a comparative approach and its contribution to the question of an evolutionary scenario in which gestures play a significant role. The topics covered include the spontaneous natural gesture use in social groups of apes and monkeys, but also during interactions with humans, gestures of preverbal children and their interaction with language, speech-accompanying gestures in humans as well as the use of sign-language in human and nonhuman great apes. It addresses researchers with a background in Psychology, Primatology, Linguistics, and Anthropology, but it might also function as an introduction and a documentation state of the art for a wider less specialised audience which is fascinated by the role gestures might have played in the evolution of human language.

Author : J. de Luce,H.T. Wilder
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461254966

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Language in Primates by J. de Luce,H.T. Wilder Pdf

This anthology was originally planned in connection with a symposium "Language in Primates: Implications for Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology, and Philosophy," at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Publication of the book would not have been possible without the support given to the Symposium by many individuals and groups. The Editors thank everyone involved for their kind and generous assistance. Specifi cally, we thank the invited speakers at the Symposium, Thomas A. Sebeok, H. Lyn Miles, Roger S. Fouts, and Thomas Simon. The chapters in this book by Miles, Fouts, and Simon are revised versions of their lectures at the Symposium. We thank Edward Simmel for his encouragement, his patience with our efforts, and his help in planning and directing the Symposium. For their financial assistance, we thank the co-sponsors of the Symposium: the Sigma Chi Foundation/William P. Huffman Scholar-in Residence Program at Miami University, as well as the Departments of Classics, Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology and Anthropology at Miami. We thank Barbara Johnson, Polly J. Harris and Brenda Shaw for their secretarial and editorial help, and Shirley Gallimore for her patience, care, good humor, and hard work in typing the manuscript. Finally, we thank the contributors to this volume.

Author : Bennett L. Schwartz,Michael J. Beran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781108962452

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Primate Cognitive Studies by Bennett L. Schwartz,Michael J. Beran Pdf

Researchers have studied non-human primate cognition along different paths, including social cognition, planning and causal knowledge, spatial cognition and memory, and gestural communication, as well as comparative studies with humans. This volume describes how primate cognition is studied in labs, zoos, sanctuaries, and in the field, bringing together researchers examining similar issues in all of these settings and showing how each benefits from the others. Readers will discover how lab-based concepts play out in the real world of free primates. This book tackles pressing issues such as replicability, research ethics, and open science. With contributors from a broad range of comparative, cognitive, neuroscience, developmental, ecological, and ethological perspectives, the volume provides a state-of-the-art review pointing to new avenues for integrative research.

Author : Dietmar Todt,Philipp Goedeking,David Symmes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1988-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540193553

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Primate Vocal Communication by Dietmar Todt,Philipp Goedeking,David Symmes Pdf

Communication is both a prerequisite and manifestation of social organization and in this sense several chapters of this volume are aimed to investigate the way vocal communication serves its ultimate function of maintaining social organization. Although manifold parallels exist to vocal communication in birds, additional mechanisms of vocalization are found in primates. Treating the various psychological, ecological, behavioral, and neurobiological aspects of vocalization this book provides an interdisciplinary approach for the understanding of biocommunication in primates including humans. Conceptual as well as methodological considerations are given in a balanced way. The addition of a comprehensive glossary gives an overview also to nonspecialists in this field.