Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Humans actively use behavioral synchrony such as dancing and singing when they intend to make affiliative relationships. Such advanced synchronous movement occurs even unconsciously when we hear rhythmically complex music. A foundation for this tendency may be an evolutionary adaptation for group living but evolutionary origins of human synchronous activity is unclear. Here we show the first evidence that a member of our closest living relatives, a chimpanzee, spontaneously synchronizes her movement with an auditory rhythm: After a training to tap illuminated keys on an electric keyboard, one chimpanzee spontaneously aligned her tapping with the sound when she heard an isochronous distractor sound. This result indicates that sensitivity to, and tendency toward synchronous movement with an auditory rhythm exist in chimpanzees, although humans may have expanded it to unique forms of auditory and visual communication during the course of human evolution.
Source: Scientific Reports
DOI: 10.1038/srep01566
Institution: Kyoto University
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,690
Awards: Diversity, Multiplicity, and Hierarchy of Mental Representations : Comparative-Cognitive-Developmental Perspective, Minds Underwater, Minds in the Forest: Comparative Cognitive Science of Primates and Cetaceans, G4909536719, Primate foundation of cognitive development, G5932852267, G6478388279, Primate foundation of the social transmission across generation in knowledge and technology, 思考と学習の霊長類的基盤, G7260166869, An experimental study about behavioral synchrony and self-other representation in humans and non-human primates
OpenAlex ID: W2121788511