7 Nov
2022
7 Nov
'22
9:19 a.m.
Dear all,
On Wednesday this week at 4pm, Francesca de Petrillo (Newcastle University) will be
talking about decision making in primates. Please, see below the title and short abstract
for her talk.
This meeting will be online (link below).
How does decision-making evolve? A comparative analysis of primate choices
Abstract: Both human and non-human animals face a myriad of choices every day: what food
to eat, where to spend their time, and with whom to mate or to interact with. Comparative
studies of decision-making have revealed important variability across different species’
decision-making strategies. What governs the variation in decision-making strategies seen
across the natural world? To answer this question, I will present a series of comparative
studies examining decision-making under risk, probabilistic reasoning, and cognitive
control in tufted capuchin monkeys, rhesus macaques and lemurs, respectively. The results
of these studies suggest that ecological complexity consistently predicts differences
across species’ decision strategies and cognitive abilities, thereby highlighting how
comparative studies can provide critical insights into the evolutionary contexts that
favor some kinds of decision-making strategies over others.
Best,
Gema
Schedule for future meetings:
Date
Time
Speaker
Topic
Location
16/11/2022
4pm
Stephen Ferrigno (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
Origins of human thought
Online
23/11/2022
4pm
Sarah Weir (University of Stirling)
TBC
Online
30/11/2022
4pm
Sabrina Brando (University of Stirling)
cancelled
07/12/2022
4pm
Gloria Sabbatini (Istc-CNR Unit of Cognitive Primatology & Primate Center, Italy)
Tool use in primates
Online
14/12/2022
3pm
Elias Garcia Pelegrin (University of Cambridge, UK)
Crows and understanding of magic tricks
Online
Link to the online meetings:
https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmee…
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