TY - JOUR
T1 - The evolution of primate short-term memory
AU - ManyPrimates
AU - Aguenounon, Géraud S.
AU - Allritz, Matthias
AU - Altschul, Drew
AU - Ballesta, Sébastien
AU - Beaud, Alice
AU - Bohn, Manuel
AU - Bornbusch, Sally L
AU - Brandão, Angela
AU - Brookes, James
AU - Bugnyar, Thomas
AU - Bustamante, Léa
AU - Call, Josep
AU - Canteloup, Charlotte
AU - Cao, Chuangshi
AU - Caspar, Kai
AU - da SIlva, Diana
AU - de Sousa, Alexandra A.
AU - DeTroy, Sarah E.
AU - Duguid, Shona
AU - Eppley, Timothy M.
AU - Fichtel, Claudia
AU - Fischer, Julia
AU - Grebe, Nicholas M.
AU - Hanus, Daniel
AU - Haun, Daniel
AU - Haux, Lou M.
AU - Héjja-Brichard, Yseult
AU - Helman, Annabella
AU - Hernadi, Istvan
AU - Hernandez-Aguilar, R. Adriana
AU - Herrmann, Esther
AU - Hopper, Lydia M.
AU - Howard, Lauren H.
AU - Huang, Lei
AU - Huskisson, Sarah
AU - Jacobs, Ivo
AU - Jin, Zhiyong
AU - Joly, Marine
AU - Kano, Fumihiro
AU - Keupp, Stefanie
AU - Kiefer, Evelin
AU - Knakker, Balázs
AU - Kóczán, Katalin
AU - Kraus, Larissa
AU - Kwok, Sze Chai
AU - Lefrançois, Marie
AU - Lewis, Laura
AU - Liu, Siyi
AU - Miquel, Llorente
AU - Lonsdorf, Elizabeth
AU - Loyant, Louise
AU - Majecka, Katarzyna
AU - Maurits, Luke
AU - Meunier, Helene
AU - Mobili, Flávia
AU - Morino, Luca
AU - Motes Rodrigo, Alba
AU - Nijman, Vincent
AU - Nkoy Ihomi, Caroline
AU - Persson, Tomas
AU - Pietraszweski, Dariusz
AU - Reátiga Parrish, Juan Felipe
AU - Roig, Anthony
AU - Sánchez-Amaro, Alejandro
AU - Sato, Yutaro
AU - Sauciuc, Gabriela-Alina
AU - Schrock, Allie E.
AU - Schweinfurth, Manon K.
AU - Seed, Amanda M.
AU - Shearer, Caroline L
AU - Šlipogor, Vedrana
AU - Su, Yanjie
AU - Sutherland, Kirsten
AU - Tan, Jingzhi
AU - Taylor, Derry
AU - Troisi, Camille
AU - Völter, Christoph J.
AU - Warren, Elizabeth
AU - Zablocki-Thomas, Pauline
PY - 2022/11/1
Y1 - 2022/11/1
N2 - 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 ability, we tested 421 non-human primates across 41 species in a preregistered, 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. However, interdependencies between phylogeny and socioecology of a given species present an obstacle to disentangling the effects of each of these factors on the evolution of short-term memory capacity.
AB - 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 ability, we tested 421 non-human primates across 41 species in a preregistered, 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. However, interdependencies between phylogeny and socioecology of a given species present an obstacle to disentangling the effects of each of these factors on the evolution of short-term memory capacity.
KW - cognitive evolution
KW - short-term memory
KW - primate cognition
KW - phylogenetic analysis
UR - https://www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/license-and-copyright.php
U2 - 10.26451/abc.09.04.06.2022
DO - 10.26451/abc.09.04.06.2022
M3 - Article
SN - 2372-5052
VL - 9
SP - 428
EP - 516
JO - Animal Behavior and Cognition
JF - Animal Behavior and Cognition
IS - 4
ER -