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Examples of realized scientific careers can provide ideas and inspiration for others aiming to pursue such careers. Here I recount in brief the story of my long career in primatology (1973 to the present), focusing on one enduring theme in my research: the nature and genesis of goal‐directed action (evident in movement). The story begins in graduate school, passes through developing my own laboratory, on to pursuing a spectrum of studies with mentees and collaborators, developing a theoretical explanatory framework for goal‐directed action that I think holds promise for the field as a whole, and ends with an exciting field project that seems a suitable finale to my career. I mention the value to me, the field, and society of participation in scientific societies, including the American Society of Primatologists, throughout my career.

• Publication year

  2023

• Venue

  American Journal of Primatology

• Publication date

  2023-11-14

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1002/ajp.23571PMID 37960946PMCID 11090999
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• Moving

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• The development of expertise at cracking palm nuts by wild bearded capuchin monkeys, Sapajus libidinosus

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• Flexible tool set transport in Goffin's cockatoos.

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• Tooling and Construction: From Nut-Cracking and Stone-Tool Making to Bird Nests and Language

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• Feeding postural behaviors and food geometric and material properties in bearded capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus)

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• On the psychological origins of tool use.

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• Extending the Reach of Tooling Theory: A Neurocognitive and Phylogenetic Perspective

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• How tufted capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.) and humans (Homo sapiens) handle a jointed tool.

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• Distinct perceptuomotor features of percussive tooling in humans (Homo sapiens) and wild bearded capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus).

  2020cited by this paper
• Compound grips in tufted capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp and Sapajus libidinosus)

  2020cited by this paper
• Adult and juvenile bearded capuchin monkeys handle stone hammers differently during nut‐cracking

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• Folk Physics in the Twenty-first Century: Understanding Tooling as Embodied

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• Manual skills for processing plant underground storage organs by wild bearded capuchins.

  2019cited by this paper
• The Multiple Representations of Complex Digit Movements in Primary Motor Cortex Form the Building Blocks for Complex Grip Types in Capuchin Monkeys

  2019cited by this paper
• How bearded capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) prepare to use a stone to crack nuts

  2019cited by this paper
• Unique perceptuomotor control of stone hammers in wild monkeys

  2018cited by this paper
• Bearded capuchin monkeys use joint synergies to stabilize the hammer trajectory while cracking nuts in bipedal stance

  2018cited by this paper
• Synchronized practice helps bearded capuchin monkeys learn to extend attention while learning a tradition

  2017cited by this paper
• Stone-Tool Use in Wild Monkeys: Implications for the Study of the Body-Plus-Tool System

  2017cited by this paper
• Task-specific temporal organization of percussive movements in wild bearded capuchin monkeys

  2016cited by this paper
• Age-related variation in the mechanical properties of foods processed by Sapajus libidinosus.

  2016cited by this paper
• Versatile grasping ability in power-grip actions by tufted capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.).

  2016cited by this paper
• Phylogenetic relationships of the New World titi monkeys (Callicebus): first appraisal of taxonomy based on molecular evidence

  2016cited by this paper
• Wild capuchin monkeys spontaneously adjust actions when using hammer stones of different mass to crack nuts of different resistance.

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• When and where to practice: social influences on the development of nut-cracking in bearded capuchins (Sapajus libidinosus)

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• Body mass in wild bearded capuchins, (Sapajus libidinosus): Ontogeny and sexual dimorphism

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• Transforming the body-only system into the body-plus-tool system

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• “Vision for Action” in Young Children Aligning Multi-Featured Objects: Development and Comparison with Nonhuman Primates

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• Ontogeny of Foraging Competence in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus capucinus) for Easy versus Difficult to Acquire Fruits: A Test of the Needing to Learn Hypothesis

  2015cited by this paper
• Wild bearded capuchin monkeys crack nuts dexterously.

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• Kinetics of bipedal locomotion during load carrying in capuchin monkeys.

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• Percussive tool use by Taï Western chimpanzees and Fazenda Boa Vista bearded capuchin monkeys: a comparison

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• Discovering your inner Gibson: Reconciling action-specific and ecological approaches to perception–action

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• Wild Bearded Capuchin Monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) Strategically Place Nuts in a Stable Position during Nut-Cracking

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• What limits tool use in nonhuman primates? Insights from tufted capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) aligning three-dimensional objects to a surface

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• How Different Are Robust and Gracile Capuchin Monkeys? An Argument for the Use of Sapajus and Cebus

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• Wild bearded capuchin (Sapajuslibidinosus) select hammer tools on the basis of both stone mass and distance from the anvil

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• Wild bearded capuchin monkeys (Cebus libidinosus) place nuts in anvils selectively

  2011cited by this paper
• Three-dimensional kinematics of capuchin monkey bipedalism.

  2011cited by this paper
• Stone tool use by adult wild bearded capuchin monkeys (Cebus libidinosus). Frequency, efficiency and tool selectivity.

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• How tufted capuchin monkeys (cebus apella spp) and common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) align objects to surfaces: insights into spatial reasoning and implications for tool use

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• Bearded capuchin monkeys' and a human's efficiency at cracking palm nuts with stone tools: field experiments

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• Development of skilled detection and extraction of embedded prey by wild brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella apella).

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• Comparative studies of squirrel monkeys (Saimiri) and titi monkeys (Callicebus) in travel tasks.

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• Foot strike patterns and collision forces in habitually barefoot versus shod runners

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• How wild bearded capuchin monkeys select stones and nuts to minimize the number of strikes per nut cracked

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• Inducing traditions in captive capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella)

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• The ontogeny of handling hard‐to‐process food in wild brown capuchins (Cebus apella apella): evidence from foraging on the fruit of Maximiliana maripa

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• Diversity of grip in Macaca mulatta

  2009cited by this paper
• Kinematics and energetics of nut-cracking in wild capuchin monkeys (Cebus libidinosus) in Piauí, Brazil.

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• Radical Embodied Cognitive Science

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• Report Tools by Wild Bearded Capuchin Monkeys

  2008cited by this paper
• Hand use by tufted capuchins (Cebus apella) to extract a small food item from a tube: digit movements, hand preference, and performance

  2007cited by this paper
• A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action

  2007cited by this paper
• Human Hand Function

  2006cited by this paper
• Experience and materials affect combinatorial construction in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

  2005cited by this paper
• Choosing and using tools: capuchins (Cebus apella) use a different metric than tamarins (Saguinus oedipus).

  2005cited by this paper
• Wild capuchin monkeys (Cebus libidinosus) use anvils and stone pounding tools

  2004cited by this paper
• Grasping behavior in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella): grip types and manual laterality for picking up a small food item.

  2004cited by this paper
• The sources of skill in seriating cups in children, monkeys and apes

  2002cited by this paper
• Prehension in infant capuchins (Cebus apella) from six weeks to twenty‐four weeks: Video analysis of form and symmetry

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• A perception--action perspective on tool use development.

  2000cited by this paper
• Strategies used to combine seriated cups by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), bonobos (Pan paniscus), and capuchins (Cebus apella).

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• Manual exploratory procedures and asymmetries for a haptic search task: a comparison between capuchins (Cebus apella) and humans.

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• Developmental changes in manipulation in tufted capuchins (Cebus apella) from birth through 2 years and their relation to foraging and weaning.

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• Patterns of individual diet choice and efficiency of foraging in wedge-capped capuchin monkeys (Cebus olivaceus).

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• Development of activity patterns, social interactions, and exploratory behavior in infant tufted capuchins (Cebus apella)

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• Development of manipulation in capuchin monkeys during the first 6 months.

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• A Dynamic systems approach to the development of cognition and action

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• Language comprehension in ape and child.

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• Comparing communicative competence in child and chimp: the pragmatics of repetition

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• Generative aspects of manipulation in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

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• Social processes affecting the appearance of innovative behaviors in capuchin monkeys.

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• Early behavioral development in capuchins (Cebus).

  1990cited by this paper
• Sex and age differences in the organization of behavior in wedge-capped capuchins, Cebus olivaceus

  1990cited by this paper
• Social influences on the acquisition of tool-using behaviors in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

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• Activity states and motor activity in an infant capuchin monkey (Cebus apella) from birth through eleven weeks.

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• Prehension in Cebus and Saimiri: I. Grip type and hand preference

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• Hand movements: a window into haptic object recognition.

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• The manufacture and use of tools by capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

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• The development of error correction strategies in young children's manipulative play.

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• A CLASSIFICATION OF MANIPULATIVE HAND MOVEMENTS

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• Comparisons of feeding behavior in captive squirrel and titi monkeys (Saimiri sciureus and Callicebus moloch).

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• Newly-acquired pre-cultural behavior of the natural troop of Japanese monkeys on Koshima islet

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