📺 Watch this space: PhD position in children's collaborative problem-solving with @nicolacutting.bsky.social and myself to be advertised very soon! The application deadline will be in late March, so get in contact if you want to know more.
Confs: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 2026
This study was an amazing collaborative experience. I'm really really grateful to all the wonderful people who contributed and made this happen.
It's the closest I have ever come to finding something like a "universal" in human cognition.
Looking for women up to 24 months postpartum to participate in my student's survey on maternal wellbeing 🙂 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/hull/disse...
Fully funded PhD position with Yuri Kawaguchi at NTU (and Claire Witham at MRC) - join us! @yurikawaguchi.bsky.social
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🚨🚨 6-month RA position available at the Univ. of St Andrews to work with Sue Healy (@cogwild.bsky.social), Simone Meddle (@simonemeddle.bsky.social) and I on the behavioural neuroendocrinology of early reproduction in zebra finches.
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Deadline: 03/12/2025
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New study out lead by @sarahbrocard.bsky.social: we found that chimpanzees and humans share similar sensitivity to prosocial behaviour, suggesting that species differences in prosociality are not grounded in ability to recognise actions, but in how they act on them. @cogcompneuch.bsky.social
It's been great to be a part of such a large scale collaborative project. A big thanks to Basel Zoo for letting us work with their birds! @cogcompneuch.bsky.social
Only 3 days left to register for the Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning X-PPL 2025! The event will take place on the 1st and 2nd of September in Zurich.
@isle-uzh.bsky.social
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We discuss possible interpretations of these findings, from attentional difficulties with the task, to the possibility that fast mapping evolved in humans since the split from a common ape ancestor.
Using eye tracking, we find no evidence of fast mapping - the ability to rapidly associate a sound with an object, and a key component of language acquisition - in gorillas and orangutans, in contrast to humans.
New paper out on hominid fast mapping, led by Dahliane Labertoniere, with Carla Pascual-Guardia, Katrin Skoruppa & @zuberbuehler.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/3kkzkjnk
Our new paper on animacy effects in Basque comprehension is out! It's been fun shepherding this paper for the last couple years. Congratulations to all the authors, but especially Aitor Ergurtzegi on publishing the last paper of his PhD! link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Pregnant ladies, we need you! Please take ten minutes to fill out our short survey on maternal wellbeing.
Image of a PhD position advert entitled "PhD studentship in Brain, Brawn, and Bugs: cognitive and physical factors of insect dexterity" with images of a praying mantis and a bumblebee foraging.
🚨Fully-funded PhD studentship on insect behaviour, cognition & muscles with me & @viveknityananda.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🐝🍀🎓🙌Application deadline April 30, start date in September. Drop me an email if you have questions! www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...
🚨Come work with us in charming Tübingen and become a member of our growing Freigeist group! We offer a 2-year postdoc position on the communicative plasticity in wild and captive bonobos, fully funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je
We are hiring! We have an open position for a new lab coordinator in #primate #cognition and #behavior in the Cognitive Evolution Group at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Find out more at: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cognitive-ev...
We're looking for equine stakeholders (horse owners, breeders, stable managers, vets etc) to fill in this short survey, to help us assess feasibility of a possible horse welfare tool. Please share! shorturl.at/PIG2s
7th annual meeting of the Society for the Cognitive Science of Culture (SCSC). Registration and abstract submission now opened!
📢 Join the 7th annual meeting of the Society for the Cognitive Science of Culture ( #SCSC ) on the 28-29th of April at the University of #Zurich! Registration and abstract submission are now open until the 28th of February.
More information:
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Re-sharing this: it would be great to get some more participants before data collection closes!
🌟JOB ALERT🌟
We're hiring lecturers/senior lecturers @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Themes: ‘Evolution of life’, ‘Anthropogenic change’, ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ & ‘Sustainable food production’
That very much includes #AnimalBehaviour
Deadline: 24th Jan 2025
bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
I hope you measured his face 😆
A student of mine is studying maternal wellbeing in people with and without pets. We're recruiting women who are either pregnant or up to nine months postpartum. Please share! app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/hull/petow...
Insightful and depressing statistics from Tatsuya Amano on the negative impact of being a non-native English speaker on publication output.
Our work on ape event cognition and the evolution of language is featured in The Conversation theconversation.com/how-primate-...
Initial agency detection in scenes depicting inanimate patients is clearly quicker than in social interactions. It makes sense, since an animate person has a much higher chance of being an agent than an inanimate object.
📰🐒According to a study by Vanessa Wilson @vd0ubleu.bsky.social and team, humans and apes alternate attention between the two subjects when observing someone interact with something. Learn more in the article from PLOS Biology, in DE, FR and EN on our website.
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To add: I wouldn't exactly caution against the use of static stimuli to study event apprehension. I think it's jsut important to note that different approaches require different respones from participants, and this produces different results.
Thanks Denis! Actions involving food were varied - some involved eating, others involved nut cracking or carrying food - so I don't think there's a consistent difference in goal-directed behaviour amongst those scenes that could differentiate them from non-food scenes.
