"Language" and intelligence in monkeys and apes Comparative developmental perspectives 64Language" and intelligence in monkeys and apes Comparative developmental perspectives Edited by SUE TAYLOR PARKER Sonoma State University AND KATHLEEN RITA GIBSON University of Texas CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RP 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia © Cambridge University Press 1990 First published 1990 First paperback edition 1994 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data "Language" and intelligence in monkeys and apes : comparative development perspectives / edited by Sue Taylor Parker and Kathleen Rita Gibson. p. cm. ISBN 0-521-38028-6 1. Primates - Psychology. 2. Animal intelligence. 3. Cognition in animals. 4. Animal communication. 5. Genetic psychology. 6. Psychology, Comparative. I. Parker, Sue Taylor. II. Gibson, Kathleen Rita. QL737.P9L26 1990 599.8'0451-dc20 89-13998 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication applied for ISBN 0-521-38028-6 hardback ISBN 0-521-45969-9 paperback Transferred to digital printing 2003 Contents List of contributors page ix Foreword, by Howard E. Gruber xi Preface xiv Acknowledgments xvii Part I Theoretical frameworks for comparative developmental studies 1 Origins of comparative developmental evolutionary studies of primate mental abilities 3 Sue Taylor Parker 2 How scientific usages reflect implicit theories: Adaptation, development, instinct, learning, cognition, and intelligence 65 Sue Taylor Parker and Bernard Baars 3 New perspectives on instincts and intelligence: Brain size and the emergence of hierarchical mental constructional skills 97 Kathleen Rita Gibson 4 Why big brains are so rare: Energy costs of intelligence and brain size in anthropoid primates 129 Sue Taylor Parker Part II Comparative developmental perspectives on cebus intelligence 5 The comparative study of cognitive ontogeny in four primate species 157 Francesco Antinucci 6 Sensorimotor development in hand-reared and mother-reared tufted capuchins: A systems perspective on the contrasts 172 Dorothy Munkenbeck Fragaszy 7 Tool use, imitation, and deception in a captive cebus monkey 205 Kathleen Rita Gibson 8 The role of innate motor patterns in ontogenetic and experiential development of intelligent use of sticks in cebus monkeys 219 Sue Taylor Parker and Patricia PotV vi Contents Part III Questions regarding imitation, "language," and cultural transmission in apes and monkeys 9 Do monkeys ape? 247 Elisabetta Visalberghi and Dorothy Munkenbeck Fragaszy 10 Cultural transmission in the tool use and communicatory signaling of chimpanzees? 274 Michael Tomasello 11 Primate cognition: From representation to language 312 Jacques Vauclair Part IV Developmental perspectives on social intelligence and communication in great apes 12 The emergence of intentional communication as a problem-solving strategy in the gorilla 333 Juan Carlos Gomez 13 "Social tool use" by free-ranging orangutans: A Piagetian and developmental perspective on the manipulation of an animate object 356 Kim A. Bard 14 The development of peer social interaction in infant chimpanzees: Comparative social, Piagetian, and brain perspectives 379 Anne E. Russon 15 Spatial expression of social relationships among captive Pan paniscus: Ontogenetic and phylogenetic implications 420 Ben G. Blount Part V Development of numerical and classificatory abilities in chimpanzees and other vertebrates 16 The development of numerical skills in the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) 435 Sarah T. Boysen and Gary G. Berntson 17 Spontaneous sorting in human and chimpanzee 451 Tetsuro Matsuzawa 18 Conceptual abilities of some nonprimate species, with an emphasis on an African Grey parrot 469 Irene Maxine Pepperberg Part VI Comparative developmental perspectives on ape "language" 19 The cognitive foundations for reference in a signing orangutan 511 H. Lyn White Miles Contents vii 20 Grammatical combination in Pan paniscus: Processes of learning and invention in the evolution and development of language 540 Patricia Marks Greenfield and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Index 579 Contributors Francesco Antinucci Sarah T. Boysen Istituto di Psicologia Primate Cognition Project Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Department of Psychology via Ulisse Aldrovandi, 16/B Ohio State University 00197 Roma, Italia 1885 Neil Avenue Columbus, OH 43210 and Yerkes Regional Primate Research Bernard Baars Center Wright Institute 2728 Durant Berkeley, CA 94704 Dorothy Munkenbeck Fragaszy Department of Veterinary and Kim A. Bard Comparative Anatomy, Yerkes Regional Primate Research Pharmacology, and Physiology Center College of Veterinary Medicine Emory University Washington State University Atlanta, GA 30322 Pullman, WA 99164-4830 Gary G. Berntson Kathleen Rita Gibson Primate Cognition Project Department of Anatomy, Dental Department of Psychology Branch Ohio State University Health Sciences Center 1885 Neil Avenue 6516 John Freeman Avenue Columbus, OH 43210 and University of Texas Yerkes Regional Primate Research Houston, TX 77225 Center Ben G. Blount Juan Carlos Gomez Department of Anthropology and Departamento de Psicologia Linguistics Evolutiva University of Georgia Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Athens, GA 30602 28049 Madrid, Spain IX Contributors Patricia Marks Greenfield Patricia Poti' Department of Psychology Istituto di Psicologia University of California at Los Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Angeles via Ulisse Aldrovandi, 16/B Los Angeles, CA 90024 00197 Roma, Italia Howard E. Gruber Anne E. Russon Program in Developmental Department of Psychology Psychology Glendon College Teachers College York University Columbia University 2275 Bayview Avenue 525 West 120 Street Toronto, ON M4N 3M6, Canada New York, NY 10027 E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Yerkes Regional Primate Research Tetsuro Matsuzawa Center Primate Research Institute Emory University Kyoto University Atlanta, GA 30322 Inuyama, Aichi 484, Japan Michael Tomasello H. Lyn White Miles Department of Psychology Department of Sociology and Emory University Anthropology Atlanta, GA 30322 and University of Tennessee Yerkes Regional Primate Research 308 Brock Hall Center 615 McCallie Avenue Chattanooga, TN 37403 Jacques Vauclair Laboratoire de Neurosciences Sue Taylor Parker Foncionelles Department of Anthropology Unite de Neurosciences Cognitives Sonoma State University 31 chemin Joseph-Aiguier Rohnert Park, CA 94928 Marseille Cedex 9, France Irene Maxine Pepperberg Elisabetta Visalberghi Department of Anthropology Istituto di Psicologia Northwestern University Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche 1810 Hinman Avenue via Ulisse Aldrovandi, 16/B Evanston,IL 60208 00197 Roma, Italia