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Josep Call

Wardlaw Professor, Prof

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8597-8336

  • School of Psychology & Neuroscience, Westburn Lane, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9JP, UK

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Research overview

My research focuses on technical and social problem solving in animals with a special emphasis on the great apes.  Some of the topics that I am currently investigating include causal and inferential reasoning, tool-use, long-term memory and planning, gestural communication and mindreading.  Ultimately, my goal is to contribute to elucidate how cognition evolves.

Keywords

  • BF Psychology
  • cognitive evolution
  • comparative psychology
  • primate cognition

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  2. SDG 14 - Life Below Water
    SDG 14 Life Below Water

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  • Behavioural manifestations of human-directed social motivation in dogs

    Boada, M., Hernández-Lloreda, M. V., Colmenares, F. & Call, J., 3 Feb 2026, In: Scientific Reports. 16, 12 p., 4649.

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  • Do great apes know each other's names? Probing great ape comprehension of social vocal labels

    Lewis, L. S., Kano, F., Stevens, J. M. G., DuBois, J. G., Call, J. & Krupenye, C., 1 Feb 2026, In: Animal Behavior and Cognition. 13, 1, p. 1-21

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  • EVApeCognition: an 18-year dataset of great ape cognition

    Sanchez-Amaro, A., Wijk, S., Molenaar, C., Abuova, A., Mujica-Manrique, L., Leisterer-Peoples, S., Beheim, B., Maurits, L., Albiach-Serrano, A., Allritz, M., Altınok, N., Amici, F., Auersperg, A., Aureli, F., Bandini, E., Barth, J., Benziad, L., Bläsing, B., Bohn, M. & Bourjade, M. & 88 others, Bräuer, J., Broihanne, M.-H., Brosnan, S., Bueno-Guerra, N., Bugnyar, T., Buttelmann, D., Buttelmann, F., Cacchione, T., Carpenter, M., Colmenares, F., Crockford, C., Cronin, K., de las Heras, Á., De Marco, A., DeTroy, S., Deufour, V., Duguid, S., Dunbar, R., Eckert, J., Engelmann, J., Fagot, J., Fischer, J., Forss, S., Funk, M., Gergely, G., Greenberg, J., Großmann, J., Grüneisen, S., Halina, M., Hanus, D., Heilbronner, S., Heintz, C., Hepach, R., Herrmann, E., Hirata, S., Hribar, A., Janzen, G., Kaminski, J., Kanngiesser, P., Kano, F., Kirchhofer, K., Knofe, H., Kopp, K., Krupenye, C., Laumer, I., Levinson, S., Liszkowski, U., Manrique, H., Martin-Ordas, G., McEwen, E., Moore, R., Munar, E., Nadal, M., Nawroth, C., Nolte, S., Pelé, M., Potì, P., Rakoczy, H., Riedel, J., Romain, A., Rossano, F., Russell, Y., Sabbatini, G., Schäfer, M., Scheumann, M., Schmelz, M., Schmid, B., Schmitt, V., Sebastián-Enesco, C., Seed, A., Suda-King, C., Tauzin, T., Tempelmann, S., Tennie, C., Truppa, V., Uher, J., Vaish, A., van Leeuwen, E., Visalberghi, E., Völter, C., Vonau, V., Wascher, C., Wittig, R., Wolf, W., Tomasello, M., Liebal, K., Call, J. & Haun, D., 1 Jun 2026, In: Scientific Data. 13, 805.

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  • Local specialists’ experience and skills in animal behaviour studies: insights from wild chimpanzee field assistants

    Soldati, A., Fedurek, P., Eleuteri, V., Zuberbühler, K., Call, J., Muhumuza, G., Mbotella, M., Adue, S., Boscou, C., Asua, J., Lomoro, D., Muhanguzi, G. & Dezecache, G., 31 Jan 2026, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 293, 2063, 20250997.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Orang-utans and chimpanzees cooperate strategically based on the partner’s incentives

    Völter, C. J., Felsche, E., Call, J. & Rossano, F., Apr 2026, In: Animal Behaviour. 234, p. 1-13 13 p., 123512.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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