Katie E Slocombe
Biographic Data
| ID | 4090586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katie E Slocombe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katie E |
| FAMILY NAME | Slocombe |
| SIGNATURE | SLOCOMBE K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7310-1887 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Maternal responsiveness to infant distress: A cross-cultural investigation in Uganda and the United Kingdom
Maternal responses are a key factor in shaping early emotional development. However, research on how mothers respond to infant emotional signals outside of Western industrialized contexts remains limited. This study provides a longitudinal, naturalistic approach to mapping cultural variation in maternal responsiveness and its effect on infant emotional outcomes. To do so, we used naturalistic video observations to assess spontaneous maternal resp…
Maternal socialization and infant helping in Uganda and the United Kingdom
Prosocial behavior, including instrumental helping, emerges early in development, but the role parental attitudes and practices take in shaping the emergence of early helping across different cultural contexts is not well understood. We took a longitudinal approach to investigate maternal socialization of early helping across two different cultural groups. Participants were mother-infant dyads from urban/suburban York, United Kingdom (43 infants:…
Pseudoreplication in Primate Communication Research: 10 Years On
Pseudoreplication is the statistical error of collecting numerous datapoints from a single unit (such as an individual), which are not independent, and applying statistical methods that assume independence of data. Importantly, pseudoreplication increases the chances of Type 1 errors (i.e., false positives), bringing findings and conclusions based on pseudoreplicated analyses into question. Ten years ago, Waller et al. (2013) published a paper hi…
Chimpanzee pant‐hoots encode individual information more reliably than group differences
Vocal learning, the ability to modify the acoustic structure of vocalizations based on social experience, is a fundamental feature of speech in humans ( Homo sapiens ). While vocal learning is common in taxa such as songbirds and whales, the vocal learning capacities of nonhuman primates appear more limited. Intriguingly, evidence for vocal learning has been reported in chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ), for example, in the form of regional variati…
Vocal Communication in Primates
Vocal communication is common in the animal kingdom. Researchers often examine vocal communication in nonhuman primates (primates) with the aim of identifying similarities and differences with human language and speech, in order to trace the evolutionary origins of our complex communication system. Primates can produce distinct calls in response to specific events, such as the discovery of a certain predator, and listeners seem to understand what…
Social, contextual, and individual factors affecting the occurrence and acoustic structure of drumming bouts in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
The production of structured and repetitive sounds by striking objects is a behavior found not only in humans, but also in a variety of animal species, including chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) . In this study we examined individual and social factors that may influence the frequency with which individuals engage in drumming behavior when producing long distance pant hoot vocalizations, and analyzed the temporal structure of those drumming bouts. M…
Network Analysis of Social Changes in a Captive Chimpanzee Community Following the Successful Integration of Two Adult Groups
Chimpanzees are highly territorial and have the potential to be extremely aggressive toward unfamiliar individuals. In the wild, transfer between groups is almost exclusively completed by nulliparous females, yet in captivity there is often a need to introduce and integrate a range of individuals, including adult males. We describe the process of successfully integrating two groups of chimpanzees, each containing 11 individuals, in the Budongo Tr…
The natural place to begin: The ethnoprimatology of the Waorani
Ethnoprimatology is an important and growing discipline, studying the diverse relationships between humans and primates. However there is a danger that too great a focus on primates as important to humans may obscure the importance of other animal groups to local people. The Waorani of Amazonian Ecuador were described by Sponsel [Sponsel (1997) New World Primates: Ecology, evolution and behavior. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. p 143-165] as the "na…
The Social Function of Food‐Associated Calls in Male Chimpanzees
There is an ongoing debate about the adaptive function of chimpanzee's food‐associated calls. Here, we tested a new hypothesis that food‐associated calls in male chimpanzees function to signal that the calling individual is likely to initiate or prolong feeding. We propose that the signal functions to coordinate activities between individuals and that its ultimate function is to retain the nearby individuals in proximity. To test this hypothesis,…
Primate Vocal Communication: A Useful Tool for Understanding Human Speech and Language Evolution
Language is a uniquely human trait, and questions of how and why it evolved have been intriguing scientists for years. Nonhuman primates (primates) are our closest living relatives, and their behavior can be used to estimate the capacities of our extinct ancestors. As humans and many primate species rely on vocalizations as their primary mode of communication, the vocal behavior of primates has been an obvious target for studies investigating the…
Fruit sharing between wild adult chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii): A socially significant event
Although food sharing is a habitual aspect of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) life, sharing of plant foods between unrelated adults is rare. Observations of such behavior have typically been interpreted as the outcome of a process by which individuals that are otherwise unable to gain access to the food manage to obtain a nutritional benefit. Here we present behavioral details and an acoustic analysis regarding an observation of food sharing between…
Primate Vocal Communication: A Useful Tool for Understanding Human Speech and Language Evolution
Language is a uniquely human trait, and questions of how and why it evolved have been intriguing scientists for years. Nonhuman primates (primates) are our closest living relatives, and their behavior can be used to estimate the capacities of our extinct ancestors. As humans and many primate species rely on vocalizations as their primary mode of communication, the vocal behavior of primates has been an obvious target for studies investigating the…
Social, contextual, and individual factors affecting the occurrence and acoustic structure of drumming bouts in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
The production of structured and repetitive sounds by striking objects is a behavior found not only in humans, but also in a variety of animal species, including chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) . In this study we examined individual and social factors that may influence the frequency with which individuals engage in drumming behavior when producing long distance pant hoot vocalizations, and analyzed the temporal structure of those drumming bouts. M…
Fruit sharing between wild adult chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii): A socially significant event
Although food sharing is a habitual aspect of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) life, sharing of plant foods between unrelated adults is rare. Observations of such behavior have typically been interpreted as the outcome of a process by which individuals that are otherwise unable to gain access to the food manage to obtain a nutritional benefit. Here we present behavioral details and an acoustic analysis regarding an observation of food sharing between…
Primate Vocal Communication: A Useful Tool for Understanding Human Speech and Language Evolution
Language is a uniquely human trait, and questions of how and why it evolved have been intriguing scientists for years. Nonhuman primates (primates) are our closest living relatives, and their behavior can be used to estimate the capacities of our extinct ancestors. As humans and many primate species rely on vocalizations as their primary mode of communication, the vocal behavior of primates has been an obvious target for studies investigating the…
Network Analysis of Social Changes in a Captive Chimpanzee Community Following the Successful Integration of Two Adult Groups
Chimpanzees are highly territorial and have the potential to be extremely aggressive toward unfamiliar individuals. In the wild, transfer between groups is almost exclusively completed by nulliparous females, yet in captivity there is often a need to introduce and integrate a range of individuals, including adult males. We describe the process of successfully integrating two groups of chimpanzees, each containing 11 individuals, in the Budongo Tr…
The natural place to begin: The ethnoprimatology of the Waorani
Ethnoprimatology is an important and growing discipline, studying the diverse relationships between humans and primates. However there is a danger that too great a focus on primates as important to humans may obscure the importance of other animal groups to local people. The Waorani of Amazonian Ecuador were described by Sponsel [Sponsel (1997) New World Primates: Ecology, evolution and behavior. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. p 143-165] as the "na…
The Social Function of Food‐Associated Calls in Male Chimpanzees
There is an ongoing debate about the adaptive function of chimpanzee's food‐associated calls. Here, we tested a new hypothesis that food‐associated calls in male chimpanzees function to signal that the calling individual is likely to initiate or prolong feeding. We propose that the signal functions to coordinate activities between individuals and that its ultimate function is to retain the nearby individuals in proximity. To test this hypothesis,…
Vocal Communication in Primates
Vocal communication is common in the animal kingdom. Researchers often examine vocal communication in nonhuman primates (primates) with the aim of identifying similarities and differences with human language and speech, in order to trace the evolutionary origins of our complex communication system. Primates can produce distinct calls in response to specific events, such as the discovery of a certain predator, and listeners seem to understand what…
Social, contextual, and individual factors affecting the occurrence and acoustic structure of drumming bouts in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
The production of structured and repetitive sounds by striking objects is a behavior found not only in humans, but also in a variety of animal species, including chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) . In this study we examined individual and social factors that may influence the frequency with which individuals engage in drumming behavior when producing long distance pant hoot vocalizations, and analyzed the temporal structure of those drumming bouts. M…
Chimpanzee pant‐hoots encode individual information more reliably than group differences
Vocal learning, the ability to modify the acoustic structure of vocalizations based on social experience, is a fundamental feature of speech in humans ( Homo sapiens ). While vocal learning is common in taxa such as songbirds and whales, the vocal learning capacities of nonhuman primates appear more limited. Intriguingly, evidence for vocal learning has been reported in chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ), for example, in the form of regional variati…
Pseudoreplication in Primate Communication Research: 10 Years On
Pseudoreplication is the statistical error of collecting numerous datapoints from a single unit (such as an individual), which are not independent, and applying statistical methods that assume independence of data. Importantly, pseudoreplication increases the chances of Type 1 errors (i.e., false positives), bringing findings and conclusions based on pseudoreplicated analyses into question. Ten years ago, Waller et al. (2013) published a paper hi…
Maternal responsiveness to infant distress: A cross-cultural investigation in Uganda and the United Kingdom
Maternal responses are a key factor in shaping early emotional development. However, research on how mothers respond to infant emotional signals outside of Western industrialized contexts remains limited. This study provides a longitudinal, naturalistic approach to mapping cultural variation in maternal responsiveness and its effect on infant emotional outcomes. To do so, we used naturalistic video observations to assess spontaneous maternal resp…
Maternal socialization and infant helping in Uganda and the United Kingdom
Prosocial behavior, including instrumental helping, emerges early in development, but the role parental attitudes and practices take in shaping the emergence of early helping across different cultural contexts is not well understood. We took a longitudinal approach to investigate maternal socialization of early helping across two different cultural groups. Participants were mother-infant dyads from urban/suburban York, United Kingdom (43 infants:…
Psychology (10 works) · Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (8 works) · Biology (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (7 works) · Primate (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Communication (4 works) · Demography (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)