{"id":3349,"date":"2014-01-20T10:54:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T15:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=3349"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:58","slug":"dr-simon-reader","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/event\/dr-simon-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Simon Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p><b>Sociality and animal social learning<\/b><b> <\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Simon Reader, Department of Biology, McGill University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, March 28<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 3:30PM \u2013 CTTC 4440Q<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Faculty Host: Jean-Guy Godin<\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Animal Behaviour \u2022 Social Learning \u2022 Adaptation<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>It is commonly assumed that social learning \u2013 learning from others \u2013 involves derived cognitive processes that evolve and develop independently. In this talk, I question the independence of social learning and discuss the evidence for social learning as an adaptive specialisation. I will review experimental work with fish, rodents and humans that demonstrates that current, recent and early life experience all predict the reliance on social information, and thus can potentially explain variation in social learning as a result of experiential effects rather than evolved differences. Comparative work with primates supports the idea that social learning evolves together with other cognitive processes, while work on primate parasite transmission suggests that social learning may also carry specific costs. I will conclude with discussion of possible approaches to the investigation of social learning as an adaptive specialisation, including discussion of recent work on nonapeptide systems in tropical fish.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-3349","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2014-03-28T15:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2014-03-28T16:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"TT","cu_event_meeting_room":"4440Q","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Jean-Guy Godin","cu_event_email":"jeanguy.godin@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/3349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/3349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}