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SUMMARY:James Higham - Insights into Life-History from the Cayo Santiago Rhesus Macaques
DESCRIPTION:We humans come from a diverse order\, the primates\, which make excellent model systems for studying the interface between the biological and the social. In this talk\, I focus on our long-running field studies of the rhesus macaques of Cayo Santiago\, Puerto Rico. Decades of individual-based demographic data allow us to explore variation in life history\, including the impacts of interbirth intervals and infant birth weights on infant survival\, and both the development and senescence of reproduction in the same individuals across the lifespan. Our studies leverage behavioral observations\, cognitive experiments\, physiological measures\, genomic and transcriptomic data from blood and tissues\, measurements of soft-tissues and skeletons\, microbiome samples\, and more. I show how long-term integrative study allows us to explore the interactions between the biological and the social from two perspectives: bottom-up and top-down. From the bottom-up perspective\, we are beginning to ask how variation in the genome and epigenome\, via the transcriptome\, constructs cellular\, tissue- and organ-level biology in individuals\, and in turn\, how individual-level behaviors structure societies and populations. From the top-down perspective\, we study how variation in the social environment can get under the skin and impact health and disease. I finish by discussing the Anthropocene\, and by demonstrating the top-down effects of climate change-linked natural disasters on rhesus macaque societies\, and on individual health via effects on the transcriptome. Combining approaches from behavioral ecology\, physiology\, quantitative genetics\, genomics and transcriptomics\, computer vision\, and comparative psychology\, this talk is part demonstration of the value of integrative research\, and part love-letter to long-term field studies. \n 
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/james-higham-insights-into-life-history-from-the-cayo-santiago-rhesus-macaques/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220404T120000
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SUMMARY:Kelsey McCune - Space Use\, Exploratory Behavior and Rapid Range Expansion in Great-Tailed Grackles
DESCRIPTION:Humans are rapidly changing the natural world\, leading to decreasing native fauna and increasing non-native fauna.  Problematic species range expansions are occurring across the globe\, but not all species are able to become established outside of their original range.  It is still unclear which characteristics facilitate successful invasions or native species persistence in human-modified environments.  One hypothesis is that variation in behavior may be important when certain individuals possess traits that make them more likely to succeed when venturing into new habitats and outcompeting heterospecifics.  For example\, variation in the ability (movement) and motivation (exploratory tendency) to encounter conspecifics and novel food sources could facilitate range expansions.  However\, no previous research has compared measures of exploration to the natural movement behavior of individuals along the range of a currently invading species.  In this talk I will discuss my research on movement and exploratory behaviors in a species that has rapidly expanded its range in the U.S.\, the great-tailed grackle. I consider whether individuals consistently differ in their movement behavior such that it can be considered an inherent individual trait\, whether movement relates to performance on an exploration task\, and whether movement and exploration differ between grackles in the center of the range and those on the invasion front.  Invasive species are implicated as a leading cause of biodiversity loss\, so this research will facilitate a better understanding of the importance of these behavioral characteristics in predicting potential invasions in other systems. \n 
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/kelsey-mccune-space-use-exploratory-behavior-and-rapid-range-expansion-in-great-tailed-grackles/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220328T120000
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SUMMARY:Lisa O'Bryan - Communication and the Coordination of Collective Behavior in Non-human and Human Social Groups
DESCRIPTION:Lisa O’Bryan\, Rice University \nIn order to obtain social benefits\, individuals must remain cohesive\, coordinate their behavior\, and collectively process information. The field of collective behavior focuses on understanding how group-wide properties such as these emerge from the interactions of many individuals. Most studies of collective behavior examine how coordination is achieved through visual cues about others’ positions and behavior. However\, in many complex social and ecological environments\, communication can be critical for achieving successful outcomes since many signals have evolved to advertise location\, express motivational state and share information. My research focuses on how vocal communication both influences\, and is influenced by\, individual and group-wide properties\, with the aim of better understanding the behavioral mechanisms underlying the successful (and unsuccessful) functioning of social groups. I study this topic using technology to obtain detailed\, continuous measurements of individual behaviors and interactions in both non-human and human social groups. In this talk I will review my work using wearable dataloggers to study how vocalizations influence the collective movements of domesticated herds and wild baboons. I will also discuss current studies focused on the role conversational turn-taking plays in the decision-making and collective intelligence of human teams. The long-term goal of my research program is to gain new insights into the function and evolution of communication systems involved in the mediation of collective behaviors and how we can engineer communication systems within our own societies to produce more favorable group-wide outcomes.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/lisa-obryan-communication-and-the-coordination-of-collective-behavior-in-non-human-and-human-social-groups/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220307T120000
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SUMMARY:Federico Rossano - Interacting like a human being: a developmental and comparative perspective on calibrating requests
DESCRIPTION:In his paper on the “human interaction engine”\, Levinson famously asserted that\, in social interaction\, people’s responses “are to actions and intentions\, not to behaviors” (2006: 45). Indeed human beings attribute intentions/goals to the production of signals and parsing other’s signals means simulating others’ mental worlds\, at least to some degree.  But how do speakers calibrate their interactional moves in first position so that they are more likely to elicit their preferred response? Which variables do they take into account? \nIn this talk I present observational and experimental data on how human (children and adults) and non-human primates (chimpanzees\, bonobos and orangutans) calibrate requests for actions and for objects. I will discuss the roles of prospection\, entitlement and accountability in the calibration of requests and outline to what degree non-human primates share with humans cognitive abilities that allow for a flexible assessment of when\, how and to whom to deliver requests. I will also show where the critical differences lie. In doing so\, I will show what it means to interact like a human being. \nFederico Rossano\nUCSD Cognitive Science\nhttps://cogsci.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/federico-rossano.html
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/frederico-rossano/
CATEGORIES:2022,Upcoming Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220228T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220228T133000
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Hobson - Dominance hierarchies\, fight decisions\, and social support as windows into animal social cognition
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Hobson\nUniversity of Cincinnati\nhttp://hobsonresearch.com/
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/elizabeth-hobson/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220214T120000
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SUMMARY:Helen Davis - Culture\, Cultural Change\, and Cognitive Development
DESCRIPTION:What does cognitive development look like in a world without schools or formally educated parents or communities? What if our most fundamental measures of cognitive performance were influenced by small amounts of schooling or by having parents\, siblings or others who attended schools in one’s household or community? Growing evidence suggests that the human mind is shaped by the socially and culturally incentivized institutions it is exposed to during our unusually long childhood. Yet\, many contemporary theories of early learning capacities and cognition are drawn from samples where formal schooling\, a prolific cultural institution\, has been nearly ubiquitous for at least a century. In such novel environments\, the impact of formal schooling on cognition and learning can easily be confused with species-wide maturational processes. This talk will discuss research focused on fundamental aspects of cognition and the institutions and cultural transitions shaping them using findings from two unique\, ongoing studies in Amazonia\, Bolivia and in the Namib Desert of Namibia and Angola. Additionally\, this talk will address growing challenges associated with cross-cultural research\, as well as the need for a conscientious commitment to participant communities. \nHelen Davis\nHarvard University\nhttps://helen-elizabeth-davis.com/
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/helen-davis/
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