Rhythmic parameters and lateralisation in the percussive behaviour of Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata)
Lindelöf, Marcus ; Sauciuc, Gabriela-Alina LU ; Persson, Tomas LU
; Costa, Raquel
and Jacobs, Ivo
LU
(2024)
In Skövde University Studies in Informatics
2024(1).
p.8-8
- Abstract
- Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) exhibit a suite of stone handling behaviours (SHB, e.g. rolling, pounding, etc.) that lack an obvious instrumental function. As SHBs appear to be socially transmitted, previous research has focused on evolutionary theories of tool use and cumulative culture. It has been assumed that SHBs in general represent a form of solitary play whose function is to hone and maintain motor skills.
In contrast to this literature, we focus on a specific SHB – drumming - which we investigate from the perspective of rhythm cognition, to derive a detailed mechanistic characterisation of the behaviour. As drumming is repetitive and, occasionally, bimanual, quantifying its rhythmic properties is suited to assess motor... (More) - Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) exhibit a suite of stone handling behaviours (SHB, e.g. rolling, pounding, etc.) that lack an obvious instrumental function. As SHBs appear to be socially transmitted, previous research has focused on evolutionary theories of tool use and cumulative culture. It has been assumed that SHBs in general represent a form of solitary play whose function is to hone and maintain motor skills.
In contrast to this literature, we focus on a specific SHB – drumming - which we investigate from the perspective of rhythm cognition, to derive a detailed mechanistic characterisation of the behaviour. As drumming is repetitive and, occasionally, bimanual, quantifying its rhythmic properties is suited to assess motor fluency and coordination in a primate’s naturalistic behaviour. In turn, this could provide a foundation for empirically informed functional inferences, given that parameters such as frequency rate, variability and lateralisation are used as measures of emotional arousal and valence, respectively.
In drumming bouts (N = 607) collected from ~30 macaques (housed at Japan Monkey Centre in Inuyama in a troop of 150 individuals), we established frequency rate (cycles / second), period, and rhythmic variability (across inter-onset intervals), as well as behavioural lateralisation and bimanual inter-limb coordination. (Less)
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; Costa, Raquel
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