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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Ethologist, Bachelor in Biological Sciences (1983) and Master (1987), Doctor (1993) and habilitation (2009) in Experimental Psychology) from the University of São Paulo. Full Professor (University of São Paulo); Visiting Professor of Kyoto University (Japan, 2013), and CNPq Researcher (1D). Developed the project "Evolutionary Approaches to Culture" in a Sabbatical Year at the IEA (Institute of Advanced Studies, USP) (2019-2020). Conducts research in the fields of Evolutionary Psychology and Animal Behavior and Cognition, highlighting processes of social transmission of information and behavioral traditions in animals. Projects currently in development in the Cultural Evolution Laboratory (CEL) focus on the spontaneous use of tools by tufted capuchin monkeys (under natural conditions and in experimentally induced situations) as behavioral traditions, as well as on the ontogeny of social cognition in human children, and biases in the cultural tramsission of infomation, with an emphasis on socially mediated learning processes. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The use of tools by capuchin monkeys in free and semi-free environments has been studied in Brazil for more than two decades, and the two wild populations submitted to long-term studies are located in Piauí, in the region of Fazenda Boa Vista (FBV), in Gilbués, and in the Serra da Capivara National Park (SCNP), in São Raimundo Nonato, with approximately 320km of distance between them. How…
This project continues our research on the use of tools by wild capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus), focusing mainly on the population of the Serra da Capivara National Park (PI), whose unusually complex instrumental repertoire has been the main subject of our studies. The proposed research involves a combination of observational/naturalistic approaches and experimental interventions i…
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…
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The project aims to continue the study of the use of tools by a group of capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) in Serra da Capivara National Park, focusing mainly on the ontogenetic development of the use of stick probes, a common behavior in the repertoire of local groups, but virtually absent in other wild populations. This population is the only one observed, so far, exhibiting an ext…
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 spontaneous use of tools by capuchin monkeys (Cebus sp.) has been studied by the Cognitive Ethology Laboratory in wild and semi-free groups. In the Tietê Ecological Park, the use of stones for cracking jerivá (Syagrus romanzoffiana) nuts has been a target of naturalistic studies for more than a decade. Recently, we also started to study this behavior through "experimental intervention…
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The goal of the "Primate Archaeology" project is to address the systematic comparative study of wild primate technologies, recognition of the time depth and cultural variation among those technologies, and construction of suitable models for relating the evolutionary trajectories of human and non-human tool use. The posdoc will work with two of the three species targets of the project, ca…
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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