'Language' and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes: Comparative Developmental Perspectives

607 Pages·1994·27.29 MB·English

by  Sue Taylor Parker

"Language" and intelligence in monkeys and apes
Comparative developmental perspectives

64Language" and intelligence in
monkeys and apes
Comparative developmental perspectives
Edited by
SUE TAYLOR PARKER
Sonoma State University
AND
KATHLEEN RITA GIBSON
University of Texas
CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY PRESS
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© Cambridge University Press 1990
First published 1990
First paperback edition 1994
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
"Language" and intelligence in monkeys and apes :
comparative development perspectives / edited by
Sue Taylor Parker and Kathleen Rita Gibson.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-521-38028-6
1. Primates - Psychology. 2. Animal intelligence. 3. Cognition in animals.
4. Animal communication. 5. Genetic psychology. 6. Psychology, Comparative.
I. Parker, Sue Taylor. II. Gibson, Kathleen Rita.
QL737.P9L26 1990
599.8'0451-dc20 89-13998
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication applied for
ISBN 0-521-38028-6 hardback
ISBN 0-521-45969-9 paperback
Transferred to digital printing 2003
Contents
List of contributors page ix
Foreword, by Howard E. Gruber xi
Preface xiv
Acknowledgments xvii
Part I Theoretical frameworks for comparative developmental studies
1 Origins of comparative developmental evolutionary studies of
primate mental abilities 3
Sue Taylor Parker
2 How scientific usages reflect implicit theories: Adaptation,
development, instinct, learning, cognition, and intelligence 65
Sue Taylor Parker and Bernard Baars
3 New perspectives on instincts and intelligence: Brain size and the
emergence of hierarchical mental constructional skills 97
Kathleen Rita Gibson
4 Why big brains are so rare: Energy costs of intelligence and brain
size in anthropoid primates 129
Sue Taylor Parker
Part II Comparative developmental perspectives on cebus intelligence
5 The comparative study of cognitive ontogeny in four primate
species 157
Francesco Antinucci
6 Sensorimotor development in hand-reared and mother-reared
tufted capuchins: A systems perspective on the contrasts 172
Dorothy Munkenbeck Fragaszy
7 Tool use, imitation, and deception in a captive cebus monkey 205
Kathleen Rita Gibson
8 The role of innate motor patterns in ontogenetic and experiential
development of intelligent use of sticks in cebus monkeys 219
Sue Taylor Parker and Patricia PotV
vi Contents
Part III Questions regarding imitation, "language," and cultural
transmission in apes and monkeys
9 Do monkeys ape? 247
Elisabetta Visalberghi and Dorothy Munkenbeck Fragaszy
10 Cultural transmission in the tool use and communicatory
signaling of chimpanzees? 274
Michael Tomasello
11 Primate cognition: From representation to language 312
Jacques Vauclair
Part IV Developmental perspectives on social intelligence and
communication in great apes
12 The emergence of intentional communication as a problem-solving
strategy in the gorilla 333
Juan Carlos Gomez
13 "Social tool use" by free-ranging orangutans: A Piagetian and
developmental perspective on the manipulation of an animate
object 356
Kim A. Bard
14 The development of peer social interaction in infant chimpanzees:
Comparative social, Piagetian, and brain perspectives 379
Anne E. Russon
15 Spatial expression of social relationships among captive Pan
paniscus: Ontogenetic and phylogenetic implications 420
Ben G. Blount
Part V Development of numerical and classificatory abilities in
chimpanzees and other vertebrates
16 The development of numerical skills in the chimpanzee
(Pan troglodytes) 435
Sarah T. Boysen and Gary G. Berntson
17 Spontaneous sorting in human and chimpanzee 451
Tetsuro Matsuzawa
18 Conceptual abilities of some nonprimate species, with an emphasis
on an African Grey parrot 469
Irene Maxine Pepperberg
Part VI Comparative developmental perspectives on ape "language"
19 The cognitive foundations for reference in a signing orangutan 511
H. Lyn White Miles
Contents vii
20 Grammatical combination in Pan paniscus: Processes of learning
and invention in the evolution and development of language 540
Patricia Marks Greenfield and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Index 579

Contributors
Francesco Antinucci Sarah T. Boysen
Istituto di Psicologia Primate Cognition Project
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Department of Psychology
via Ulisse Aldrovandi, 16/B Ohio State University
00197 Roma, Italia 1885 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210 and
Yerkes Regional Primate Research
Bernard Baars
Center
Wright Institute
2728 Durant
Berkeley, CA 94704 Dorothy Munkenbeck Fragaszy
Department of Veterinary and
Kim A. Bard Comparative Anatomy,
Yerkes Regional Primate Research Pharmacology, and Physiology
Center College of Veterinary Medicine
Emory University Washington State University
Atlanta, GA 30322 Pullman, WA 99164-4830
Gary G. Berntson
Kathleen Rita Gibson
Primate Cognition Project
Department of Anatomy, Dental
Department of Psychology
Branch
Ohio State University
Health Sciences Center
1885 Neil Avenue
6516 John Freeman Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210 and
University of Texas
Yerkes Regional Primate Research
Houston, TX 77225
Center
Ben G. Blount Juan Carlos Gomez
Department of Anthropology and Departamento de Psicologia
Linguistics Evolutiva
University of Georgia Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Athens, GA 30602 28049 Madrid, Spain
IX
Contributors
Patricia Marks Greenfield Patricia Poti'
Department of Psychology Istituto di Psicologia
University of California at Los Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Angeles via Ulisse Aldrovandi, 16/B
Los Angeles, CA 90024 00197 Roma, Italia
Howard E. Gruber Anne E. Russon
Program in Developmental Department of Psychology
Psychology Glendon College
Teachers College York University
Columbia University 2275 Bayview Avenue
525 West 120 Street Toronto, ON M4N 3M6, Canada
New York, NY 10027
E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Yerkes Regional Primate Research
Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Center
Primate Research Institute
Emory University
Kyoto University
Atlanta, GA 30322
Inuyama, Aichi 484, Japan
Michael Tomasello
H. Lyn White Miles
Department of Psychology
Department of Sociology and
Emory University
Anthropology
Atlanta, GA 30322 and
University of Tennessee
Yerkes Regional Primate Research
308 Brock Hall
Center
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37403 Jacques Vauclair
Laboratoire de Neurosciences
Sue Taylor Parker Foncionelles
Department of Anthropology Unite de Neurosciences Cognitives
Sonoma State University 31 chemin Joseph-Aiguier
Rohnert Park, CA 94928 Marseille Cedex 9, France
Irene Maxine Pepperberg Elisabetta Visalberghi
Department of Anthropology Istituto di Psicologia
Northwestern University Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
1810 Hinman Avenue via Ulisse Aldrovandi, 16/B
Evanston,IL 60208 00197 Roma, Italia