Evolution of Primate Social Cognition

Part 1: Aspects of Primate Social Cognition

What did you get? What social learning, collaboration, prosocial behaviour, and inequity aversion tell us about primate social cognition

Lydia M. Hopper & Katherine A. Cronin

Affective stages, motivation, and prosocial behaviour in primates

Hira Kuroshima & Kazuo Fujita

Understanding empathy from the coordinative movement in humans and non-human primates

Lira Yu, Hattori, Yamamoto, Misaki Tomonga

The cognitive implications of intentional communication: A multi-faceted mirror

David Leavens

A comparison of socio-communicative behaviour in chimpanzees and bonobos

Part 2: Studying Primate Social Cognition: Theory, Observation, Experiments, and Modelling

Primate social cognition - evidence from primate field studies

Julia Ostner

Contribution of social network analysis and collective phenomena to understanding social complexity and cognition

Denis Boyer & Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez

Comparative economics: Using experimental economics paradigms to understand primate social decision-making

Julia Watzek, Mackenzie Smith, & Sara F. Brosnan

The special case of non-human primates in animal experimentation

Augusto Vitale & Marta Borgi

Epigenetics and the evolution of human cognition

Gillian Ragsdale  & Robert A. Foley

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens: Cognitively different kinds of human?

Eiluned Pearce

Part 3: Cultural Artifacts and Transmission in Primates

Recognition culture in primate tool use

Micheal Haslam, Tiago Falòtico, Lydia Luncz

 Culture and selective social learning in wild and captive primates

Stuart K. Watson*& Jennifer Botting* (*joined first author), Andrew Whiten and Erica van de Waal

The zone of latent solutions concept and its relationship to the classics: Vygotsky and Köhler

Eva Reind, Elisa Bandini, Claudio Tennie

Minimal cognitive preconditions on the ratchet

Elizabeth  Renner & Tadeusz  Zawidzki

 Emulation, (over)imitation and social creation of cultural information

Laura Desirée Di Paolo & Fabio Di Vincenzo

 The Acquisition of Biface Knapping Skill in the Acheulean

Ceri Shipton & Nielsen

Visuospatial integration: Palaeoanthropological and archaeological perspectives