Bodies at play: the role of intercorporeality and bodily affordances in coordinating social play in chimpanzees in the wild
Bas van Boekholt, Ray Wilkinson, Simone Pika · 2024
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Bas van Boekholt, Ray Wilkinson, and Simone Pika watch wild chimpanzees at play and ask how bodies, not signals, keep the game coordinated. Play bouts are fast and physical, and who intends what is hard to judge, so signal-based theories miss much of the action. The authors borrow a stance from conversation analysis that sets intention aside and looks at moves and responses.
Two ideas do the work: intercorporeality, the way bodies mesh directly, and bodily affordances, the actions a partner's posture invites. Chimps used posture and contact to start, sustain, and end wrestling-style play, answering each move with an aligning one. The study appeared in 2023, though the catalog lists 2024. The authors argue these tools capture coordination that older approaches overlooked.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Bas van Boekholt, Ray Wilkinson, Simone Pika |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 79 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |