ArticleRoyal Society open science2019
Interest in non-social novel stimuli as a function of age in rhesus monkeys.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Replications, Comparisons, Sampling and the Problem of Representativeness in Animal Cognition Research.Animal behavior and cognition · 2021Article
- Location and temporal memory of objects declines in aged marmosets (Callithrix jacchus).Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Differential ageing trajectories in motivation, inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility in Barbary macaques (Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Personality, cognition and behavior in chimpanzees: a new approach based on Eysenck's model.PeerJ · 2020Article
- Interest in non-social novel stimuli as a function of age in rhesus monkeys.Royal Society open science · 2019Article
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Abstract
Human cognitive and affective life changes with healthy ageing; cognitive capacity declines while emotional life becomes more positive and social relationships are prioritized. This may reflect an awareness of limited lifetime unique to humans, leading to a greater interest in maintaining social relationships at the expense of the non-social world in the face of limited cognitive and physical resources. Alternately, fundamental biological processes common to other primate species may direct preferential interest in social stimuli with increasing age. Inspired by a recent study that described a sustained interest in social stimuli but diminished interest in non-social stimuli in aged Barbary macaques, we carried out a conceptual replication to test whether old rhesus monkeys lost interest in non-social stimuli. Male and female macaques (
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