Chimpanzees spontaneously take turns in a shared serial ordering task.

ABSTRACT: Social coordination can provide optimal solutions to many kinds of group dilemmas, and non-human subjects have been shown to perform single actions successively or simultaneously with partners to maximize food rewards in a variety of experimental settings. Less attention has been given to showing how animals are able to produce multiple (rather than single) intermixed and co-regulated actions, even though many species' signal transmissions and social interactions rely on extended bouts of coordinated turn-taking. Here we report on coordination behaviour in three pairs of chimpanzees (mother/offspring dyads) during an experimentally induced turn-taking scenario. Participants were given a "shared" version of a computer-based serial ordering task that they had previously mastered individually

SUBMITTER: Martin CF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5665892 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature