Faculty

Dorothy M. Fragaszy, Ph.D. Professor Director, Primate Behavior Laboratory Neuroscience and Behavior and Life-Span Developmental Psychology Programs Neuroscience and Behavior Program Chair Ph.D., University California-Davis, 1978 Office: Room 604 Ph: (706) 542-3036 Fax: (706) 542-3275 Email: doree@uga.edu Primate Behavior Lab: Room 607 Lab Ph: (706) 542-8966

EthoCebus Field Project

Research Interests

Flexible instrumental behavior (problem-solving), manipulation, foraging and feeding in primates. I consider the developmental bases of flexible behavior, and the contribution of social learning and social context to the expression of flexible behavior. I work primarily with capuchins (Cebus; South American monkeys). I collaborate with many colleagues studying wild tool-using capuchin monkeys in Brazil, and in laboratory studies of spatial cognition, perception and action.

Selected Publications

Books

Fragaszy, D.M., Visalberghi, E., & Fedigan, L. (2004). The Complete Capuchin. Cambridge University Press.

Fragaszy, D., & Perry, S. (Eds). (2003). The Biology of Traditions: Models and Evidence. Cambridge University Press.

Refereed Publications (From 2000 - Present)

2000       
Adams-Curtis, L.E., Fragaszy, D.M., & England, N. 2000. Prehension in infant capuchins (Cebus apella) from six weeks to twenty-four weeks: Video analysis of form and symmetry.  American Journal of Primatology, 52, 55-60.

Christel, M., & Fragaszy, D. 2000.  Manual function in (Cebus apella).  Digital mobility, preshaping, and endurance in repetitive grasping.  International Journal of Primatology 21, 697-719.

Cooper, M., Bernstein, I., Fragaszy, D., and de Waal, F. 2000.  Integration of new males into four social groups of tufted capuchins (Cebus apella).  International Journal of Primatology, 226, 663-683.

Dettmer, E., and Fragaszy, D. 2000. Determining the value of social companionship to captive tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).  Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 3, 293-304.

Fragaszy, D., & Visalberghi, E. 2000.  Recognizing a swan: Socially-biased learning.  Psychologia, 44, 82-98.

2001  
Johnson-Pynn, J., & Fragaszy, D. 2001. Do apes and monkeys rely upon conceptual reversibility? A review of studies using seriated nesting cups in children and nonhuman primates.  Animal Cognition, 4, 315-324.

2002  
Fragaszy, D., Galloway, A., Johnson-Pynn, J., Hirsh, E., & Brakke, K. 2002. The sources of skill in seriating cups in children, monkeys, and apes.   Developmental Science, 5, 118-131.

2003  
Fragaszy, D., Johnson-Pynn, J., Hirsh, E., & Brakke, K. 2003. Strategic navigation of two-dimensional alley mazes: Comparing capuchin monkeys and chimpanzees. Animal Cognition, 6, 149-160.

Johnson-Pynn, J., Fragaszy, D.M., & Cummins-Sebree, S. 2003. Common territories in comparative and developmental psychology: The quest for shared means and meaning in behavioral investigations. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 16, 1-27.

Leighty, K., & Fragaszy, D. 2003. Joystick acquisition in tufted capuchin (Cebus apella)  Animal Cognition, 6, 141-148.

Leighty, K., & Fragaszy, D. 2003. Primates in cyberspace: Using interactive computer tasks to study perception and action in nonhuman animals.  Animal Cognition, 6, 137-139.

Fragaszy, D. 2003. Making space for traditions. Evolutionary Anthropology, 12, 61-70.

2004  
Fragaszy, D.M., & Visalberghi, E. 2004. Socially biased learning in monkeys. Learning and Behavior, 32, 1, 24-35.

Leighty, K.A., Byrne, G., Fragaszy, D.M., Visalberghi, E., Welker, C., & Lussier, I. 2004. Twinning in tufted capuchins (Cebus apella): Rate, survivorship, and physical development. Folia Primatologica, 75, 14-18.

Fragaszy, D.M., Izar, P., Visalberghi, E., Ottoni, E.B., & Gomes De Oliveira, M. 2004. Wild capuchin monkeys (Cebuslibidinosus) use anvils and stone pounding tools.  American Journal of Primatology, 64, 359-366.

2005  
Rosengart, C. R., and Fragaszy, D.M. 2005.  Experience and materials affect  combinatorial construction in tufted capuchins monkeys.  Journal of  Comparative Psychology, 119, 166-178.

Galloway, A., Addessi, E., Fragaszy, D., and Visalberghi, E. 2005. Social facilitation of eating familiar food in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebusapella): Does it involve behavioral coordination?  International Journal of Primatology, 26, 181-189.

Cummins-Sebree, S., and Fragaszy, D. 2005.  Choosing and using tools: Capuchins use a different metric than tamarins.  Journal of Comparative Psychology, 119, 210-219.

Takeshita, H., Fragaszy, D., Mizuno, Y., Matsuzawa, T.,Tomonaga, M., and Tanaka, M. 2005.  Exploring by doing.  How young chimpanzees discover surfaces through action with objects.  Infant Behavior and Development, 28, 316-328

Matheson, M.D., Fragaszy, D.M., Johnson-Pynn, J.S. 2005. Response to novel housing in two groups of captive tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Primates, 46, 235-240.

Fragaszy, D., and Cummins-Sebree, S. 2005.  Relational spatial reasoning by a nonhuman: The example of capuchin monkeys.  Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 4, 282-306.

2006 
Izar, P.,Verderane M.P., Visalberghi E. , Ottoni E.B. , Gomes De Oliveira M,  Shirley J ; Fragaszy D.  2006.  Cross-genus adoption of a marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) by wild capuchin monkeys (Cebus libidinosus): case report.  American Journal of Primatology, 68, 692-700.

2007 
Visalberghi, E., D. Fragaszy, E. Ottoni, P. Izar, M. G. de Oliveira, F. R. D. Andrade.  2007.  Characteristics of hammer stones and anvils used by wild bearded capuchin monkeys (Cebus libidinosus) to crack open palm nuts.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 132(3), 426-444.

Brakke, K., Fragaszy, D, Simpson, K., Hoy, E., and Cummins-Sebree, S. 2007.  The production of unimanual and bimanual percussion in 12- to 24-month-old children.  Infant Behavior and Development 30, 2-15.

Fragaszy, D.  2007.  Relational spatial reasoning and tool use in capuchin monkeys.  A primatologia no Brasil 10, 521-546.
 
2008    
Gunst, N., Boinski, S., and Fragaszy, D. 2008.   Acquisition of foraging competence in wild brown capuchins (Cebus apella), with special reference to conspecifics’ foraging artefacts as an indirect social influence.  Behaviour 45(2), 195-229.
   
Hoy Kennedy, E., and Fragaszy, D. 2008. Analogical reasoning in a capuchin monkey. Journal of Comparative Psychology. 122(2), 167-175

Leighty, K., Menzel, C.,and Fragaszy, D. 2008.  How young children and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) perceive objects in a 2D display:  Putting an assumption to the test.  Developmental Science. 11(5), 778-792

Visalberghi, E, Sabbatini, G, Spagnoletti, N, Andrade, FRD, Ottoni, E, Izar, P, Fragaszy, D. 2008.  Physical properties of palm fruits processed with tools by wild bearded capuchins (Cebus libidinosus).  American Journal of Primatology 70(9), 884-891.

Resende, B., Ottoni, E.B., and Fragaszy, D. 2008.  Ontogeny of manipulative behavior and nut-cracking in young capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella): A Perception-action perspective.  Developmental Science 11(6), 828-840.

2009
Liu, Q., Simpson, K., Izar, P., Ottoni, E., Visalberghi, E., and Fragaszy, D. 2009. Kinematics and energetics of nut-cracking in wild capuchin monkeys (Cebus libidinosus) in Piauí, Brazil.  American Journal of Physical  Anthropology 138(2), 210–220.

Visalberghi, E., Addessi, E., Truppa, V., Spagnoletti, N., Ottoni, E., Izar, P., and Fragaszy, D. 2009.  Selection of effective stone tools by wild bearded capuchin monkeys. Current Biology 19, 213-217.

Crast, J., Fragaszy, D., Hayashi, M., and Matsuzawa, T. 2009.  Dynamic in-hand movements in adult and young juvenile chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 138(3), 274-285.

Fragaszy, D., Kennedy, E., Murnane, A., Menzel, C., Brewer, G., Johnson-Pynn, J., Hopkins, W. 2009.  Navigating two-dimensional mazes: Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and capuchins (Cebus apella sp.) profit from experience differently.  Animal Cognition 12, 491-504.

Journal Articles In Press 

Lucas, P., Constantino, P., Chalk, J., Ziscovici, C., Wright, B., Fragaszy, D., Hill, D., Lee, J., Chai, H., Darvell, B., Lee, Pl, Yuen, T.  In press. Fallback foods: field assessment of mechanical properties and their potential effect on the dentition.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 
 
Gunst, N.Boinski, B., & Fragaszy, D. (in press).  Development of skilled detection and extraction of embedded preys by wild brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella apella).Journal of Comparative Psychology. 

Book Chapters

2000
Lacreuse, A., & Fragaszy, D.M. 2000.  Exploration perceptive tactile chez les primate non humains. In Toucher pour connaître .  Psychologie cognitivede la perception tactile manuelle, eds.  Hatwell, Y., Streri, A. and Gentaz, E.  pp. 225-241.   Presses Universitaires de France, Paris.

2002
Visalberghi, E. & Fragaszy, D. 2002.  Do monkeys ape?  Ten Years After.  In  Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, eds. K. Dautenhahn & C. Nehaniv , pp. 473-499.  MIT Press, Cambridge.

2003
Fragaszy, D., & Perry, S. 2003. Towards a biology of traditions. In Traditions in Nonhuman Animals: Models and Evidence, eds. D. Fragaszy & S. Perry, pp. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

2005
Cummins-Sebree, S.E., & Fragaszy 2005. Capuchins as stone-knappers?: an      evaluation of the evidence.  In Knapping Stone: A Uniquely Hominid  Behavior, eds. V. Roux and B. Brill, pp. 171-182.  Cambridge University  Press, Cambridge.

2006
Visalberghi, E. & Fragaszy, D. 2006. What is challenging about tool use?  The    capuchin’s perspective. In Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations   of Intelligence, eds. E. Wasserman & T. Zentall, pp. 529-552.  Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Leighty, K.A., Fragaszy, D.M., & Brown, J.M. 2006.  Darwin in Cyberspace:          Advances in technology give us new avenues to study the continuity of  cognition across species.  In Primate Perspectives, ed. D. Washburn, pp. 37-46.  American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.

Book Chapters In Press 

Fragaszy, D. and Crast, J. In press.  Socially-biased learning in monkeys and prosimians.  In Galef, B. G. (section editor), Encyclopedia of Animal Behaviour. Elsevier.

Humle, T. and Fragaszy, D. In press.  Tool use and cognition in primates.  In Primates in Perspective, ed. C. Campbell et al. Oxford University Press.

Courses Regularly Taught

Undergraduate

• Developmental Psychology

Graduate

• Theories of development
• Comparative cognition seminar
• Developmental psychobiology seminar