Developments in Primate Gesture Research

Name: Developments in Primate Gesture Research
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Simone Pika Katja Liebal(Editor)

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Developments in Primate Gesture Research
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Dedication page
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
About the contributors
Introduction
References
Facial-vocal displays, gestures and language
1. The study of communication in primates
1.1 Species-typical, ontogenetically ritualised or learned culturally
1.2 Iconic analog signals versus arbitrary digital symbols
1.3 Closed, limited repertoire versus open, unlimited repertoire
1.4 Emotionally regulated versus intentional and voluntary
1.5 Displays of attitude or referential symbols
1.6 Imperative and instrumental versus attention sharing and narrative conversation
1.7 Combinations of signals, strings versus syntax, generative grammar
2. To conclude
Literature
Does ontogenetic ritualization explain early communicative gestures in human infants?
1. Introduction
1.1 Gestural origins in non-human primates
1.2 Gestural origins in human primates
1.3 This study
2. Methods
2.1 Participants
2.2 Procedure
2.3 Coding gestures
2.4 Form
2.5 Communicative intention
2.6 Dyadic interaction
2.7 Context
2.8 Reliability
3. Results
3.1 Potentially ritualized forms
3.1.1 Pick-me-up
3.1.2 Grasp-index
3.2 Conventional gestures
3.2.1 Wave
3.2.2 Clap
3.2.3 Clasp hands
4. Discussion
4.1 Ritualization in human gesture ontogeny
4.2 Social learning in human gesture ontogeny
4.3 Cross-species comparison
Acknowledgements
References
A mother gorilla's variable use of touch to guide her infant
1. Introduction
1.1 Gestures from phylogenetic ritualization
1.2 Gestures from ontogenetic ritualization
1.3 Iconic gestures
2. Present study
3. Method
3.1 Subjects and Setting
3.2 Data recording and Scene selection
3.3 Coding and Analysis
4. Results
4.1 Form and Force
4.2 Attitude
5. Discussion
5.1 Iconicity and Gesture-Action continuity
5.2 Gesture and Sensorimotor simulations
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Spontaneous use of gesture sequences in orangutans
1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1 Individuals
2.2 Observational methods
2.3 Definitions
2.4 Coding procedure
2.5 Reliability
2.6 Statistics
3. Results
3.1 General overview
3.2 Functional contexts
3.3 The use of gesture modalities as a function of the recipients' attentional state
3.4 Persistence
3.4.1 Behavior of recipients
3.4.2 Repetition and elaboration
3.4.3 Attention getting gestures: Anticipatory and elaborated use
3.4.3.1 Gesture modality.
3.4.3.2 Gestures used for inattentive recipients.
3.4.3.3 Efficient gestures.
4. Discussion
Acknowledgements
References
Handedness for manual gestures in great apes
1. Methods
1.1 Subjects
1.2 Selection of studies
1.3 Data analysis
2. Results
2.1 Experimental data
2.2 Observational data
2.3 Repeat observations
2.4 Gesture specific handedness
3. Discussion
Acknowledgement
References
Mandrill visual gestures
1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1 Study system: the mandrill in captivity
2.2 Study groups
2.3 Visual-based manual gestures
2.4 Observations and sampling regime
3. Results
3.1 Manual gestures and distribution across study groups
3.2 Hand extension
3.3 Eye covering
3.4 Contrast of Hand extension and Eye covering
4. Discussion
4.1 Developmental origins
4.2 Cultural transmission
Acknowledgements
References
Gesture use in consortship
1. Introduction
1.1 Chimpanzee sexual strategies
1.2 The potential role of gestural communication when on consortship
2. Method
2.1 Procedure
2.2 Long-term data collection
2.3 Defining sexual behaviour
2.4 Defining gestures
2.5 Structure of the gestural communication
2.6 Function of the gestural communication
2.7 Success of the gestural communication
2.8 Gesture modality
2.9 Long and short-distance audible gestures
2.10 Specific analyses
3. Results
3.1 Consortship behaviour in Sonso chimpanzees
3.2 Gestural communication in the consortship context
3.3 The consortship repertoire of gestures
3.4 Gesture as discreet communication?
3.5 The function of gestural communication in consortship
3.6 Response-waiting in gestural communication on consortship
3.7 Success of male communications in consortships
3.7.1 Full success
3.7.2 Partial success
3.8 Female responsiveness to male gestural communication on consortship
3.9 Persistence in gestural communication on consortship
3.10 Vocalization during consortship
3.10.1 Male vocalization
3.10.2 Female vocalization
3.11 The coercion of females on consortship
4. Discussion
Acknowledgements
References
A call for conformity
1. Introduction
1.1 A history of gesture studies
1.1.1 Human adults
1.1.2 Human infants
1.1.3 Apes
1.1.4 Monkeys
1.2 How do humans, apes and monkeys compare?
2. Building a framework
2.1 McNeill's Gesture Continuum
2.2 Tinbergen's four "why's"
2.3 Four dimensions of gesture use
2.3.1 Mechanical
2.3.2 Perceptual
2.3.3 Purposeful
2.3.4 Representational
2.4 How to apply the dimensions?
3. Proposed definition
References
Cognitivism, adaptationism and pointing
1. Of mental states and adaptations for mental states
2. The origins of pointing in humans and apes
3. Pointing, collaborative activities, and shared intentionality
4. Adaptationism and adaptations for shared intentionality
5. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
References
Pointing
1. Pointing towards Social Ends
2. Why do People Point?
3. Skinner and Searle on Communication
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Requesting behaviours within episodes of active sharing
1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1 The Ngogo chimpanzee community
2.2 Behavioral observations
2.3 Application of conversation analysis
2.4 Gesture definition
2.5 Gestures
2.5.1 Gestures in close proximity (0-15cm)
2.5.2 Distant gestures (15 cm)
3. Results
3.1 Extract 1a (M2U00894_00:00-01:34)
3.2 Extract 1b (continuation of 1a) (M2U00894_01:34-01:50)
3.3 Extract 2a (M2U00821_04:19-05.00)
3.4 Extract 2b (continuation of 2a) (M2U00821 05.00-05:03)
3.5 Extract 3 (M2U00823 03:22-03:38)
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
Hands and Faces
1. Introduction
1.1 Language as Gesture
1.2 Dynamic systems
2. Gesture to language
2.1 The first route
2.2 The second route
3. Linking human language and non-human primate communication
References
Where next?
1. Phylogenetic origins of gestural communication
2. Multimodal approach
3. Ontogenetic trajectories
4. Dynamic approach
5. Neural substrates of gesture use
6. Neglected populations
7. Future directions and developments
7.1 What is a gesture?
7.2 How are gestures acquired?
7.3 How does the context shape communication?
References
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