Get involved

News

Catch us at these conferences (and other news)!

Symposium

We are planning to hold the first ManyPrimates symposium sometime after the pandemic at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

Authorship Guidelines

As a large scientific collaboration that aims to be inclusive, we developed guidelines and criteria for how to assign authorship to individuals involved in ManyPrimates projects.

Ethics Guidelines

We developed ethical guidelines for procedures and participation in ManyPrimates studies.

Contact

We encourage everyone who is interested in primate cognition to get involved. Access to primates is NOT a prerequisite.

Publications

  • ManyPrimates et al. (2022) The evolution of primate short-term memory . Animal Behavior and Cognition, 9(4), 428-516. https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.09.04.06.2022
  • ManyPrimates et al. (2022) Collaboration and open science initiatives in primate research. In M. J. Beran & B. Schwartz, Primate Cognitive Studies (pp. 584-608): Cambridge University Press. [Preprint] doi:10.31219/osf.io/7c93a
  • ManyPrimates et al. (2020) ManyPrimates : une infrastructure de collaboration internationale dans la recherche en cognition des primates. Revue de primatologie 11|2020. doi:10.4000/primatologie.8808 [→ PDF]
  • ManyPrimates et al. (2019) Collaborative open science as a way to reproducibility and new insights in primate cognition research. Japanese Psychological Review 62(3), 205-220. doi:10.24602/sjpr.62.3_205 [→ PDF]
  • ManyPrimates et al. (2019) Establishing an infrastructure for collaboration in primate cognition research. PLOS ONE 14(10), e0223675. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0223675 [→ PDF]

Projects

Review of Primate Cognition Research

We conducted a systematic review of primate cognition research published between 2014 and 2019 to quantify sample sizes and identify sampling biases. Based on this survey we outline why many research questions can only be addressed through large-scale collaboration.

Pilot

As a proof of concept, this study was a first step towards building an infrastructure that facilitates large-scale collaboration in primate cognition research. In this pilot study, we conducted a short-term memory task with 176 primates from 12 species and 11 sites.

ManyPrimates 1: Short-Term Memory

The first ManyPrimates project is a continuation of our pilot study. We collected data from 400+ primates from 40+ species and almost 30 sites in order to make meaningful inferences about the evolution of short-term memory abilities in the primate lineage.

Status: Completed (see publications)

ManyPrimates 2: Delay of Gratification

For this project, we will assess primates' ability to resist the temptation of an immediate reward in order to receive a larger or better reward later on.

Status: Data collection

ManyPrimates 3: Inference by Exclusion

For this project, we will assess primates' ability to make choices by excluding alternative options.

Status: Planning

ManyPrimates personality, well-being, and demographics data linkage

For this project, we will gather data on individual differences, both behavioral, cognitive, and demographic, in part to facilitate linking multiple ManyPrimates datasets.

Status: Data collection