ReviewLearning & behavior2010
Opportunities and constraints when studying social learning: Developmental approaches and social factors.
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- Environmental harshness does not affect the propensity for social learning in great tits, Parus major.Animal cognition · 2024Article
- The influence of task difficulty, social tolerance and model success on social learning in Barbary macaques.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Bridging pure cognitive research and cognitive enrichment.Animal cognition · 2022Article
- Tool transfers are a form of teaching among chimpanzees.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Pair bond characteristics and maintenance in free-flying jackdawsJournal of avian biology · 2015Article
- Food washing and placer mining in captive great apes.Primates; journal of primatology · 2013Article
- Synaptogenesis and development of pyramidal neuron dendritic morphology in the chimpanzee neocortex resembles humans.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013Article
- Developmental constraints on behavioural flexibility.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2013Review
- Experimental identification of social learning in wild animals.Learning & behavior · 2010Review
- Social learning research outside the laboratory: How and why?Learning & behavior · 2010Article
- Experimental studies of animal social learning in the wild: Trying to untangle the mystery of human culture.Learning & behavior · 2010Review
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Abstract
Identifying social learning in wild populations is complicated by the relative lack of ability to conduct controlled experiments in natural habitats. Even in more controlled captive settings, tracking the innovation and spread of behavior among known individuals can be challenging, and these studies often suffer from a lack of ecological validity. In recent years, a host of new approaches have been undertaken to attempt to provide more quantitative control and empirical demonstration of social learning, both in the wild and in captive settings that more closely mimic natural contexts. Developmental approaches are being undertaken more regularly that allow us to study the ontogenetic trajectory of complex skills in a variety of taxa. Likewise, a spirited focus on the social context of social learning has emerged, and researchers have begun to meticulously analyze the influences of social systems and the characteristics of demonstrators and observers. Here, we provide a review of these studies and summarize the opportunities and constraints that exist when one attempts to study learning in social species. We suggest that although the study of social learning in nonhuman animals is becoming much more complex, addressing this complexity provides a fruitful model for understanding the evolution of human cultural behavior.
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