Social memory in our closest cousins - Many Minds
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- Social memory in our closest cousins
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- <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> If want to have a rich social life, you're going to need to know who's who. You'll need to distinguish friend from foe, sister from stranger. And you're going to need to hold those distinctions in your head— for at least a little while. This is true not just for humans but—we have to assume—for other social species as well. But which species? And for how long can other creatures hold on to these kinds of social memories? </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> My guests today are <a href="https://www.laurasimonelewis.com/">Dr. Laura Lewis</a> and <a href= "https://christopherkrupenye.weebly.com/">Dr. Chris Krupenye</a>. Laura is a biological anthropologist and postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley; Chris is a comparative psychologist and an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins. Along with a larger team, Laura and Chris recently authored a <a href= "https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2304903120?doi=10.1073/pnas.2304903120"> paper</a> on memory for familiar faces in chimpanzees and bonobos. In it, they show that our closest cousins remember their groupmates for decades.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Here, we chat about the paper and the backstory behind it. We consider the anecdotes about long-term memory in great apes—and how Laura and Chris decided to go beyond those anecdotes. We talk about the evidence for complex social memory across the animal kingdom. We discuss the use of eye-tracking with primates and its advantages over earlier methods. We also talk about why long-term social memory might have evolved. Along the way, we touch on dolphins, ravens, and lemurs; voices, gaits, and names; the different gradations of recognition; and how memory serves as a critical foundation for social life more generally. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Alright friends, without further ado, here's my conversation with Laura Lewis and Chris Krupenye. Enjoy!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> A transcript of this episode will be available soon.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"> </span><span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><em><u><span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Notes and links</span></u></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">4:30 – Dr. Lewis and Dr. Krupenye worked together in the lab of Dr. Brian Hare, a <a href= "https://disi.org/humans-dogs-and-other-domesticated-animals/">former guest</a> on the podcast. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">8:30 – The <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INa-oOAexno&themeRefresh=1">video</a> of Mama and the primatologist Jan van Hooff.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">12:00 – For research on the remarkably long social memories of dolphin, see <a href= "https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2013.1726">here</a>. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">14:00 – For research on long-term voice recognition in bonobos, see <a href= "https://www.nature.com/articles/srep22046">here</a>.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">19:30 – Another collaborator on the paper we’re discussing was <a href= "http://www.fumihirokano.com/p/main-page.html">Dr. Fumihiro Kano</a>, affiliated with the <a href= "https://www.wrc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kumasan/indexE.html">Kumamoto Sanctuary</a>.</span></p> <p c
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- 2024-03-07T04:53:00+00:00
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- https://manyminds.libsyn.com/social-memory-in-our-closest-cousins
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- 65:24
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