CV Lattes
Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Research Assistant at the Anthropology Department, Durham University (UK). Has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) having been a visiting researcher at Durham University (UK) for one year as a PhD candidate. Also has a Bachelor's degree in Biological Science (2005) and a M.Sc. in Psychology (2009) both from the University of São Paulo. Training in Research in General Biology, with an emphasis on the following subjects: tool-use, wild Bearded capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus), tufted capuchin monkey (Sapajus sp.), nut-cracking, social network analysis, social learning and behavioural traditions. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The existence of behavioral traditions - behaviors acquired via socially-biased learning - in nonhuman animals has been the subject of intense debate in the last decade. In order to be described as a behavioral tradition, a behavior must be analyzed in its three dimensions: (1) the contribution of social context, (2) the degree of dissemination of it and (3) how long the behavior persists…
The occurrence of behavioral traditions - trans-generational behaviors that result from socially-biased learning - in nonhuman animals has been subject of intense debate in the last decade. To be classified as a behavioral tradition, the behavior must be acquired by naive individuals through learning that is somehow mediated or facilitated by the behavior of a co-specific. Our goal is to …
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