Social and Physical Cognition in Old World Monkeys - A Comparative Perspective

Soziale und Physikalische Kognition bei Altweltaffen - eine vergleichende Perspektive

by Vanessa Schmitt
Doctoral thesis
Date of Examination:2012-04-13
Date of issue:2012-08-01
Advisor:Prof. Dr. Julia Fischer
Referee:Prof. Dr. Julia Fischer
Referee:Prof. Dr. Michael Waldmann
Persistent Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-1461

 

 

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Abstract

English

Primates have brains that are approximately twice as large as those of other similarly-sized mammals. Furthermore, also within the primate order brains have not only become increasingly large, but have also revealed a significant increase in cortical mass. The social brain hypothesis posits that this increase is due to the demands of life in a complex social group, and data regarding the relationship between brain size and social complexity support this view. Whether this pressure only affects
Keywords: Comparative Cognition; Old World monkeys; Social Cognition; Physical Cognition; Primates; Baboon; Macaque; Primate Cognition Test Battery; Quantity Discrimination; Size Discrimination; Communication
Schlagwörter: Vergleichende Kognition; Altweltaffen; Soziale Kognition; Physikalische Kognition; Testbatterie; Pavian; Javaneraffe; Mengenverständnis; Größenunterscheidung; Kommunikation
 
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