Human cognitive ecology
An instructive framework for comparative primatology
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 19388874 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Janet Dixon Keller (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2004 |
| Volumen | 62 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 229-241 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2004-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | American Journal of Primatology (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0275-2565 • E-ISSN: 1098-2345 |
| Editorial | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajp.20017 |
| PMID | 15027094 |
| OpenAlex | W2074996739 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 51 |
In this review, research on human cognitive ecology is compared with studies of the cognitive ecologies of apes–especially the common chimpanzee. The objective was to assess the feasibility of extending an activity‐theory framework developed in studies of humans to an integrated approach for studying the cognitive accomplishments and skills of other primates living in the wild. Six generalizations were abstracted from studies of humans: 1) Social and material environments are arranged to facilitate production. 2) Human activity is shaped by conceptual and cultural principles that provide underlying logic for working knowledge and practice. 3) Schemata (multimodal, mental representations of procedures, strategies, and techniques) govern performance in a domain. 4) Working knowledge, skills, and social identities are coconstructed in communities of practice. 5) Rehearsal improves skilled performances, from which reputations as well as material products are derived. 6) Planning and emergence are in productive tension in human practices. These generalizations are applied to findings in the literature regarding the behavior of chimpanzees and other apes in the wild to assess the potential utility of a situated‐activity approach for comparative studies of primate cognition. It is argued in the Discussion that schemata constitute a common core of higher primate intelligence. Planning, emergence, and alterations of the environment to facilitate production further characterize human and chimpanzee or gorilla behaviors to varying degrees. Less apparent in the nonhuman‐primate literature is evidence of governing principles, rehearsal, and skill‐based reputations or identities entailing theories of mind. Nonetheless, recent observations in the wild suggest that further research is warranted to explore the rudiments of each of these components to enhance our understanding of the ecology of primate cognition and its evolutionary history. Am. J. Primatol. 62:229‐241, 2004. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc
Biology · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Comparative psychology · Epistemology · Primate · Primatology · Situated · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Action Observation and Synchronization · Anthropology · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Primate Behavior and Ecology · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence · Ecology
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The woman who climbed up the house
The Chimpanzees of the Taï Forest
Remembrance of Repasts
Chimpanzee Material Culture
Parallel Distributed Processing
Apprenticeship in Thinking
Cognition in the Wild
Cultural learning
A folk model of the mind
Mental map in wild chimpanzees
Teaching among wild chimpanzees
Plans and situated actions
Learning by imitation
Birth in four cultures
Anthropological perspectives on technology
Understanding Practice
How We Think They Think
Technological Choices
New Directions in Psychological Anthropology
Human Motives and Cultural Models
The Development of Cognitive Anthropology
Imagery in cultural tradition and innovation
Learning in Likely Places
Is nut cracking in wild chimpanzees a cultural behaviour
Cognition in Practice
Interpreting Invention as a Cognitive Process
The making of a soufflé
Techniques du corps et traditions chimpanzières
Cognition and Tool Use
Situated Learning
The Perception of the Environment
Power and Knowledge
Evidence for a Social Custom in Wild Chimpanzees
"Commitment" in American marriage
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