학술논문
The Evolution of Primate Short-Term Memory
Document Type
article
Author
ManyPrimates; Géraud Aguenounon; Matthias Allritz; Drew M. Altschul; Sébastien Ballesta; Alice Beaud; Manuel Bohn; Sally L. Bornbusch; Angela Brandão; James Brooks; Thomas Bugnyar; Judith M. Burkart; Léa Bustamante; Josep Call; Charlotte Canteloup; Chuangshi Cao; Kai R. Caspar; Diana da Silva; Alexandra A. de Sousa; Sarah E. DeTroy; Shona Duguid; Timothy M. Eppley; Claudia Fichtel; Julia Fischer; Chi Gong; James A. Grange; Nicholas M. Grebe; Daniel Hanus; Daniel Haun; Lou M. Haux; Yseult Héjja-Brichard; Annabella Helman; Istvan Hernadi; R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar; Esther Herrmann; Lydia M. Hopper; Lauren H. Howard; Lei Huang; Sarah M. Huskisson; Ivo Jacobs; Zhiyong Jin; Marine Joly; Fumihiro Kano; Stefanie Keupp; Evelin Kiefer; Balázs Knakker; Katalin Kóczán; Larissa Kraus; Sze Chai Kwok; Marie Lefrançois; Laura Lewis; Siyi Liu; Miquel Llorente; Elizabeth Lonsdorf; Louise Loyant; Katarzyna Majecka; Luke Maurits; Hélène Meunier; Flávia Mobili; Luca Morino; Alba Motes-Rodrigo; Vincent Nijman; Caroline Nkov Ihomi; Tomas Persson; Dariusz Pietraszewski; Juan Felipe Reátiga Parrish; Anthony Roig; Alejandro Sánchez-Amaro; Yutaro Sato; Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc; Allie E. Schrock; Manon K. Schweinfurth; Amanda Seed; Caroline L. Shearer; Vedrana Šlipogor; Yanjie Su; Kirsten Sutherland; Jingzhi Tan; Derry Taylor; Camille A. Troisi; Christoph J. Völter; Elizabeth Warren; Julia Watzek; Pauline Zablocki-Thomas
Source
Animal Behavior and Cognition, Vol 9, Iss 4, Pp 428-516 (2022)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
2372-5052
2372-4323
2372-4323
Abstract
Short-term memory is implicated in a range of cognitive abilities and is critical for understanding primate cognitive evolution. To investigate the effects of phylogeny, ecology and sociality on short-term memory, we tested the largest and most diverse primate sample to date (421 non-human primates across 41 species) in an experimental delayed-response task. Our results confirm previous findings that longer delays decrease memory performance across species and taxa. Our analyses demonstrate a considerable contribution of phylogeny over ecological and social factors on the distribution of short-term memory performance in primates; closely related species had more similar short-term memory abilities. Overall, individuals in the branch of Hominoidea performed better compared to Cercopithecoidea, who in turn performed above Platyrrhini and Strepsirrhini. Interdependencies between phylogeny and socioecology of a given species presented an obstacle to disentangling the effects of each of these factors on the evolution of short-term memory capacity. However, this study offers an important step forward in understanding the interspecies and individual variation in short-term memory ability by providing the first phylogenetic reconstruction of this trait’s evolutionary history. The dataset constitutes a unique resource for studying the evolution of primate cognition and the role of short-term memory in other cognitive abilities.