*Patreon Preview* Decoding Academia 8: Monkey see, Monkey do?
Decoding the Gurus
Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Ahead of the Jaron Lanier episode a special preview episode of our ongoing Decoding Academia series.
This week Matt and Chris take a look at a classic comparative study of social learning processes in chimpanzees and infants (Horner & Whiten, 2005). They discover the correct method to break into a puzzle box, that chimpanzees are sometimes more logical than people, and that popular idioms do not always house universal truths.
For anyone interested in reading the paper it is available for free here.
We will be back later in the week with our normal decoding episode.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Oh, yeah. Hello Chris. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello Matt and welcome to Decoding Academia. |
| 0:30.0 | It's been a while. |
| 0:32.0 | It's been a little while, hasn't it? It has been a little while. It's been a little while, hasn't it? |
| 0:34.0 | It has been a little while. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm very, very sorry. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm partly to blame. |
| 0:38.0 | I have a very important science business to be doing. |
| 0:42.0 | And, but the good news is I've mainly finished it all and I get to have a bit of a rest so |
| 0:48.0 | Looking forward to doing more decoding academia is more quickly over the coming months? |
| 0:53.0 | Yes, we are, we are sorry for various delays on the main podcast and the bonus content |
| 1:00.1 | about that we're just going through a little bit of a busy period with academic malarky and |
| 1:06.6 | Matt has been more productive to me but I think not that's not a good sign I still have a large amount of work I need to get done as well. |
| 1:15.3 | So anyway we are here today to talk about a paper by Victoria, Horner and Andrew Witton from 2005 Matt and it's from |
| 1:29.7 | Animal Cognition. It's a comparative psychology study comparing chimpanzees and Homo sapiens, humans. |
| 1:39.8 | That's us. |
| 1:40.8 | Yeah, yeah, well we're not children anymore, but you know similar. |
| 1:45.0 | The juveniles of our species. |
| 1:47.0 | The younglings. |
| 1:48.0 | Yes, I'm familiar with them. |
| 1:49.0 | Yeah, the younglings, I haven't familiar with them. |
| 1:52.0 | Yeah, so before we get into it, Chris has, |
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