Publications by authors named "Fabia Miss"
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- Behavioral coordination in primates heavily relies on co-representation, where an individual understands both their own and their partner's actions simultaneously; however, this study found that co-representation actually hinders joint performance rather than helping it.
- The research explored whether social factors like grooming behavior, sociality, rank, or centrality could explain variations in co-representation among different monkey species, but these factors did not predict individual differences.
- The findings suggest that successful cooperation is more about learned behaviors from shared experiences rather than innate inhibitory control, indicating a need for better-designed tasks that promote, instead of inhibit, cooperation to study co-representation effectively.
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- Human joint actions can be improved by understanding both your own and your partner's tasks, but sometimes this shared representation can lead to interference, hindering performance.
- Research on brown capuchins, Tonkean macaques, and marmosets in a joint Simon task showed that while corepresentation existed in all species, its impact on cooperation varied significantly.
- Marmosets, which breed cooperatively, exhibited the weakest corepresentation effect and the highest success in cooperation, suggesting that cooperative behavior and flexibility aren't solely tied to brain size but rather to the species' natural inclination towards cooperation.
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- Dominance hierarchy is crucial in animal societies, but traditional methods of assessing it can be affected by various challenges like environmental factors and difficulties in recognizing individuals.
- This research utilized automated learning and testing machines (MALT) to track and measure the dominance dynamics among semi-free-ranging Tonkean macaques, revealing a strong correlation between MALT data and observed social interactions.
- The study confirms that MALT offers a reliable, low-labor approach for continuously monitoring dominance hierarchies, which can be beneficial for managing animal groups, even in fluctuating environments.
Behavioral coordination is a fundamental element of human cooperation. It is facilitated when individuals represent not only their own actions but also those of their partner. Identifying whether action corepresentation is unique to humans or also present in other species is therefore necessary to fully understand the evolution of human cooperation.
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