With Marcela Benítez, I co-organized a symposium at the Animal Behavior Conference focused on Social Competency. We had a great mix of speakers, with some longer keynote talks, regular research talks, and several short lightning talks all centered on work touching on ideas of social competency in animals.
Here is our schedule with speakers and talk titles:
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Session 1 (9:30-12:00) |
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9:30 |
Hobson & Benítez |
Social competency: an integrative approach to social information, decision-making, and cognition |
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9:45 |
Vanessa Ferdinand |
Evidence of information processing in cognition and collectives |
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10:15 |
Dai Shizuka |
Integrating status signals, social networks, and the structure of contests to understand dominance in the wild |
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10:30 |
Adriana Maldonado-Chaparro |
The social context of Pair-Bond Formation in a Monogamous Species |
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10:45 |
Marina Hutchins |
Is Social Information Production and Use Genetically Correlated in D. melanogaster? |
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11:00 |
Sandra Smith Aguilar |
Social decision-making and collective pooling of foraging information in fission-fusion dynamics |
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11:15 |
Claire O’Connell |
Temporal dynamics of novel affiliative relationship formation in monk parakeets |
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11:15 |
Raven Hartman |
Relative impacts of four spatial scales of movement on social grooming networks in vampire bats |
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11:30 |
Sanjay Prasher |
Exploring the factors underlying social competency in foragers using an agent-based model |
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11:30 |
Discussion/Questions |
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Session 2 (2:00-3:30) |
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2:00 |
Elizabeth Tibbets |
How individual recognition, status signals, and hormone responsiveness influence social competence |
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2:30 |
Kelly Wallace |
Combining cognitive ecology and social neuroscience to yield new insights into cichlid social worlds |
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2:45 |
Grace Smith-Vidaurre |
Social systems, cognition, and identity signaling can provide new insights into vocal communication |
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3:00 |
Annemarie van der Marel |
Perturbations of key individuals affect individual rank and group-level dominance patterns |
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3:15 |
Alexandra Rosati |
Comparative development of social cognition in primates |
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Session 3 (4:00-5:30) |
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4:00 |
Lauren Brent |
Kin I get some help over here? How social decisions are shaped by relatedness (or lack thereof) |
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4:30 |
Cesar Estien |
Behavioral responses can provide insight into the importance and relevance of social connections |
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4:30 |
Juan Carlos & Alex Fuentes |
Novel method for studying cognition in wild capuchin monkeys |
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4:45 |
Chelsea Carminito |
How behavioral and social plasticity can tell us how individuals and groups recover from social instability |
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4:45 |
Xavier Francis |
Time dependent aggressive decision-making in Monk Parakeets |
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5:00 |
Synthesis / discussion |
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