Sparse code of conflict in a primate society

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 35, 2012, Pages 14259-14264

  Daniels, Bryan C ^a,b   Krakauer, David C ^a,b   Flack, Jessica C ^a,b  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Collective computation; Social complexity; Social niche construction; Statistical inference

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL SOCIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CODING; COGNITION; FEMALE; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MEMORY; NERVE COMPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGGRESSION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ETHOLOGY; FEMALE; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MALE; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; PRIMATES;

EID: 84865530435     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1203021109     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. DeDeo S, Krakauer D, Flack J (2011) Evidence of strategic periodicities in collective conflict dynamics. J R Soc Interface 8:1260-1273.
2. DeDeo S, Krakauer DC, Flack JC (2010) Inductive game theory and the dynamics of animal conflict. PLoS Comput Biol 6:e1000782.
3. Harcourt AH, de Waal FBM, eds. (1992) Coalitions and Alliances in Humans and Other Animals (Oxford University Press, Oxford).
4. Noë R, Hammerstein P (1995) Biological markets. Trends Ecol Evol 10:336-339.
5. Silk J (1999) Male bonnet macaques use information about third-party rank relationships to recruit allies. Anim Behav 58:45-51.
6. de Waal FB (2000) Primates-a natural heritage of conflict resolution. Science 289:586-590.
7. Flack JC, de Waal FBM, Krakauer DC (2005) Social structure, robustness, and policing cost in a cognitively sophisticated species. Am Nat 165:E126-39.
8. Flack JC, Krakauer DC, de Waal FBM (2005) Robustness mechanisms in primate societies: A perturbation study. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 272:1091-1099. (Pubitemid 41020267)
9. Flack JC, Krakauer DC (2006) Encoding power in communication networks. Am Nat 168:E87-E102.
10. Judge P (2005) Dyadic and triadic reconciliation in pigtail macaques (Macaca nemestrina). Am J Primatol 23:225-237.
11. Flack JC, Jeannotte L, de Waal FBM (2004) Play signaling and the perception of social rules by juvenile chimpanzees. J Comp Psychol 118:49-59.
12. Krakauer D, Flack J, DeDeo S, Farmer D (2010) Intelligent data analysis of intelligent systems. IDA 8-17 LNCS 6065.
13. Griffiths TL, Tenenbaum JB (2009) Theory-based causal induction. Psychol Rev 116:661-716.
14. Hoffman ML, Beran M, Washburn D (2009) Memory for "what", "where", and "when" information in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 35:143-152.
15. Schacter DL, Addis DR, Buckner RL (2007) Remembering the past to imagine the future: The prospective brain. Nat Rev Neurosci 8:657-661. (Pubitemid 47283147)
16. Olshausen BA, Field DJ (1996) Emergence of simple-cell receptive field properties by learning a sparse code for natural images. Nature 381:607-609. (Pubitemid 26177476)
17. Olshausen BA, Field DJ (1997) Sparse coding with an overcomplete basis set: A strategy employed by V1? Vision Res 37:3311-3325. (Pubitemid 27493805)
18. Tulving E (1993) What is episodic memory? Curr Dir Psychol Sci 2:67-70.
19. Griffiths D, Dickinson A, Clayton N (1993) Episodic memory: What can animals remember about their past? Trends Cogn Sci 3:74-80.
20. Schwartz B (2001) Episodic memory in primates. Am J Primatol 55:71-85.
21. Jaynes ET (2003) Probability Theory (Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge, UK).
22. Schneidman E, Berry MJ, II, Segev R, Bialek W (2006) Weak pairwise correlations imply strongly correlated network states in a neural population. Nature 440:1007-1012.
23. Jaynes E (1957) Information theory and statistical mechanics. Phys Rev 106:620-630.
24. Eichhorn J, Sinz F, Bethge M (2009) Natural image coding in V1: How much use is orientation selectivity? PLoS Comput Biol 5:e1000336.
25. Flack J, Girvan M, De Waal F, Krakauer D (2006) Policing stabilizes construction of social niches in primates. Nature 439:426-429. (Pubitemid 43152827)
26. Bialek W, Nemenman I, Tishby N (2001) Predictability, complexity, and learning. Neural Comput 13:2409-2463. (Pubitemid 33594578)
27. Flack J, Krakauer D (2011) Challenges for complexity measures: A perspective from social dynamics and collective social computation. Chaos 3:037108.
28. Nyberg L, et al. (1996) General and specific brain regions involved in encoding and retrieval of events: What, where, and when. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 93:11280-11285. (Pubitemid 26333155)
29. Reader SM, Hager Y, Laland KN (2011) The evolution of primate general and cultural intelligence. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366:1017-1027.
30. De Waal F, Tyack P, eds. (2011) Animal Social Complexity (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA).
31. Sohl-Dickstein J, Battaglino P, DeWeese MR (2010) Minimum probability flow learning. arXiv:09064779v3.