Constructing Social Minds: Coordination, Communication and Cultural Transmission

Research output

Research output per year 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2025

• 41 Article
• 4 Review article
• 2 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
• 2 Comment/debate

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2025

  Contrasting two versions of the 4-cup 2-item disjunctive syllogism task in great apes

  Jones, B. & Call, J., 2 Jan 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Animal Cognition. 28, 16 p., 3.

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  • Logical Reasoning 100%

• Training primates to forage in virtual 3D environments

  McEwen, E. S., Allritz, M., Call, J., Koopman, S., Rapport Munro, E., Bottero Cantuarias, C. J., Menzel, C. R., Dolins, F. L., Janmaat, K. R. L. & Schweller, K., 1 Jan 2025, In: Behavioural Processes. 224, 14 p., 105126.

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  • Primate Cognition 100%
  • Pan Troglodytes 50%
  • Pongo Abelii 50%
• 2024

  Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) recognise that their guesses could be wrong and can pass a 2-cup disjunctive syllogism task

  Jones, B. & Call, J., Jun 2024, In: Biology Letters. 20, 6, 20240051.

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  • Gambling 100%
  • Logical Reasoning 100%

• Exploring cultural techniques in non-human animals: how are flexibility and rigidity expressed at the individual, group, and population level?

  Tenpas, S. E., Schweinfurth, M. K. & Call, J., 19 Mar 2024, The evolution of techniques: rigidity and flexibility in use, transmission, and innovation. Charbonneau, M. (ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, p. 235-251 17 p. (Vienna series in theoretical biology).

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  • Social Learning 100%
  • Rigidity 100%
  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 100%
  • Social Learning Theory 25%
  • Genetics 25%
• 2022

  Bo-NO-bouba-kiki: picture-word mapping but no spontaneous sound symbolic speech-shape mapping in a language trained bonobo

  Margiotoudi, K., Bohn, M., Schwob, N., Taglialatela, J., Pulvermüller, F., Epping, A., Schweller, K. & Allritz, M., 9 Feb 2022, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences. 289, 1968, 20211717.

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  • Bonobo 100%
  • Sound 100%
  • Human Development 100%
  • Plausibility 100%
  • Sound symbolism 75%

• Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) navigate to find hidden fruit in a virtual environment

  Allritz, M., Call, J., Schweller, K., McEwen, E. S., de Guinea, M., Janmaat, K. R. L., Menzel, C. R. & Dolins, F. L., 24 Jun 2022, In: Science Advances. 8, 25, 16 p.

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  • Spatial Cognition 100%
  • Frame of Reference 100%
  • Pan Troglodytes 100%

• Human adults prefer to cooperate even when it is costly

  Curioni, A., Voinov, P., Allritz, M., Wolf, T., Call, J. & Knoblich, G., 27 Apr 2022, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences. 289, 1973, 9 p., 20220128.

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  • Individual Action 100%
  • Goal Achievement 50%
  • Performing Action 50%

• Inferential communication: bridging the gap between intentional and ostensive communication in non-human primates

  Warren, E. & Call, J., 14 Jan 2022, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 12, 17 p., 718251.

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  • Mental State 100%
  • Cognitive Process 100%

• Inter-individual coordination in walking chimpanzees

  Schweinfurth, M. K., Baldridge, D. B., Finnerty, K., Call, J. & Knoblich, G. K., 8 Dec 2022, In: Current Biology. 32, 23, p. 5138-5143 9 p., e3.

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  • Pan Troglodytes 100%
  • Rhythm 100%
  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 100%

• Learning from communication versus observation in great apes

  Marno, H., Voelter, C. J., Tinklenberg, B., Sperber, D. & Call, J., 21 Feb 2022, In: Scientific Reports. 12, 9 p., 2917.

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  • Orangutan 100%
  • Pan Paniscus 100%
  • Observational Learning 100%

• Primate cognition in zoos: reviewing the impact of zoo-based research over 15 years

  McEwen, E. S., Warren, E., Tenpas, S., Jones, B., Durdevic, K., Rapport Munro, E. & Call, J., 26 Sept 2022, In: American Journal of Primatology. 84, 10, e23369.

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  • Primatology 100%
  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 100%
  • Primate Cognition 100%
  • Animal Behavior 100%
  • Species Diversity 42%
• 2021

  Bonobos and chimpanzees preferentially attend to familiar members of the dominant sex

  Lewis, L. S., Kano, F., Stevens, J. M. G., DuBois, J. G., Call, J. & Krupenye, C., Jul 2021, In: Animal Behaviour. 177, p. 193-206

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  • Eye-Tracking 100%
  • Attentional Bias 100%
  • Social Learning 100%
  • Social Cognition 100%

• Capuchins (Sapajus apella) and their aversion to inequity

  Schweinfurth, M. K. & Call, J., 28 Aug 2021, Comparative cognition: commonalities and diversity. Anderson, J. R. & Kuroshima, H. (eds.). Singapore: Springer, p. 173-195 23 p.

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  • Cebus 100%
  • Aversion 100%
  • Sapajus apella 100%
  • Haplorhini 28%
  • Awareness 14%

• Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) show subtle signs of uncertainty when choices are more difficult

  Allritz, M., McEwen, E. S. & Call, J., Sept 2021, In: Cognition. 214, 11 p., 104766.

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  • Metacognition 100%
  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 100%
  • Muscle Tension 50%
  • Information Seeking 50%
  • Plausibility 50%

• Chimpanzees behave prosocially in a group-specific manner

  van Leeuwen, E. J. C., DeTroy, S. E., Kaufhold, S. P., Dubois, C., Schütte, S., Call, J. & Haun, D. B. M., 24 Feb 2021, In: Science Advances. 7, 9, 10 p., eabc7982.

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  • Prosocial Behavior 100%

• Evolutionary foundations of knowledge and belief attribution in nonhuman primates

  Kano, F. & Call, J., 19 Nov 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The Behavioral and brain sciences. 44, e158.

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  • Macaca 100%
  • False Belief 100%

• Targeted helping and cooperation in zoo-living chimpanzees and bonobos

  Nolte, S. & Call, J., 10 Mar 2021, In: Royal Society Open Science. 8, 3, 19 p., 201688.

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  • Prosociality 100%
  • Prosocial Behavior 100%
• 2020

  Chimpanzee coordination and potential communication in a two-touchscreen turn-taking game

  Voinov, P. V., Call, J., Knoblich, G., Oshkina, M. & Allritz, M., 25 Feb 2020, In: Scientific Reports. 10, 13 p., 3400.

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  • Turn-Taking 100%

• Context-sensitive adjustment of pointing in great apes

  Tauzin, T., Bohn, M., Gergely, G. & Call, J., 23 Jan 2020, In: Scientific Reports. 10, 10 p., 1048.

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  • Spatial Configuration 100%
  • Pointing Gesture 100%
  • Social Context 100%

• Learning novel skills from iconic gestures: a developmental and evolutionary perspective

  Bohn, M., Kordt, C., Braun, M., Call, J. & Tomasello, M., 26 May 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Psychological Science. Online First, 8 p.

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  • Gesture 100%
  • Children 42%
  • Abilities 14%
  • Attention 14%
  • Humans 14%
• 2019

  Chimpanzees and children avoid mutual defection in a social dilemma

  Sánchez-Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J. & Tomasello, M., Jan 2019, In: Evolution and Human Behavior. 40, 1, p. 46-54

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  • Decision Making 100%
  • Turn-Taking 100%
  • Human Decision 100%
  • Cooperation 100%

• Disentangling great apes’ decoy-effect bias in a food choice task

  Sánchez-Amaro, A., Altinok, N., Heintz, C. & Call, J., 1 Aug 2019, In: Animal Behavior and Cognition. 6, 3, p. 213-222 10 p.

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  • Food Choice 100%
  • Cognitive Bias 50%

• Great apes use self-experience to anticipate an agent’s action in a false-belief test

  Kano, F., Krupenye, C., Hirata, S., Tomonaga, M. & Call, J., 15 Oct 2019, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116, 42, p. 20904-20909

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  • Theory of Mind 100%
  • False Belief 100%
  • Mental State 50%
  • Social Participation 25%
  • Perceptual Experience 25%

• Language origins viewed in spontaneous and interactive vocal rates of human and bonobo infants

  Oller, D. K., Griebel, U., Iyer, S. N., Jhang, Y., Warlaumont, A. S., Dale, R. & Call, J., 2 Apr 2019, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 10, 18 p., 729.

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  • Cell Excitability 100%
  • Face-To-Face Interaction 100%
  • Vocal Play 100%
  • Social Interaction 100%

• Reciprocity: different behavioural strategies, cognitive mechanisms and psychological processes

  Schweinfurth, M. K. & Call, J., Dec 2019, In: Learning and Behavior. 47, p. 284–301 18 p.

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  • Cognitive Strategy 100%
  • Cognitive Load 100%
  • Norway 100%

• Revisiting the possibility of reciprocal help in non-human primates

  Schweinfurth, M. K. & Call, J., Sept 2019, In: Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 104, p. 73-86 14 p.

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  • Temporal Scale 100%
  • Observational Studies 100%
  • Design Experiment 100%
  • Systematic Review 100%
  • Observational Study 100%

• Sound symbolic congruency detection in humans but not in great apes

  Margiotoudi, K., Allritz, M., Bohn, M. & Pulvermüller, F., 3 Sept 2019, In: Scientific Reports. 9, 12 p., 12705.

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  • Toddlers 100%

• Theory of mind in animals: current and future directions

  Krupenye, C. & Call, J., 17 May 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: WIREs Cognitive Science. Early View, e1503.

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  • Mental Health 100%
  • Theory of Mind 100%
  • Mental State 100%
  • Cooperation 33%
  • Eye Tracking 33%
• 2018

  Human ostensive signals do not enhance gaze following in chimpanzees, but do enhance object-oriented attention

  Kano, F., Moore, R., Krupenye, C., Hirata, S., Tomonaga, M. & Call, J., Sept 2018, In: Animal Cognition. 21, 5, p. 715-728

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  • Eye Contact 100%
  • Close Relationship 50%
  • Eye-Tracking 50%
  • Caregiver 50%

• Natural reference: a phylo- and ontogenetic perspective on the comprehension of iconic gestures and vocalizations

  Bohn, M., Call, J. & Tomasello, M., 18 Oct 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Developmental Science. Early View, e12757.

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  • Children 100%
  • Gesture 100%
  • Comprehension 100%
  • Acquisition 16%
  • Abilities 16%

• Population-specific social dynamics in chimpanzees

  Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Cronin, K. A. & Haun, D. B. M., 6 Nov 2018, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115, 45, p. 11393-11400 8 p.

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  • Genetics 100%
  • Dynamics 100%
  • Intraspecific Variation 100%
  • Clustering 100%
  • Mixed Model 100%

• Preschool children and chimpanzees incur costs to watch punishment of antisocial others

  Mendes, N., Steinbeis, N., Bueno-Guerra, N., Call, J. & Singer, T., Jan 2018, In: Nature Human Behaviour. 2, 1, p. 45-51 7 p.

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  • Preschooler 100%

• Primate social attention: species differences and effects of individual experience in humans, great apes, and macaques

  Kano, F., Shepherd, S. V., Hirata, S. & Call, J., 23 Feb 2018, In: PLoS One. 13, 2, 25 p., e0193283.

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  • Attentional Bias 100%
  • Social Environment 50%

• Reply to 'Chimpanzee helping is real, not a byproduct'

  Jensen, K., Tennie, C. & Call, J., 12 Feb 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nature Communications. 9, 2 p., 616.

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• Spontaneous social tool use in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

  Schweinfurth, M. K., Detroy, S. E., Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Call, J. & Haun, D. B. M., 12 Nov 2018, In: Journal of Comparative Psychology. 132, 4, p. 455-463 9 p.

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  • Tool Use 100%
  • Tool User 25%
  • Cognitive Skill 25%
  • Big Data 25%
  • Case Study 25%

• The development of human social learning across seven societies

  van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Cohen, E., Collier-Baker, E., Rapold, C. J., Schäfer, M., Schütte, S. & Haun, D. B. M., 1 Dec 2018, In: Nature Communications. 9, 1, 2076.

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  • Social Learning 100%

• The social-cognitive basis of infants’ reference to absent entities

  Bohn, M., Zimmermann, L., Call, J. & Tomasello, M., Aug 2018, In: Cognition. 177, p. 41-48 8 p.

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  • Infant 100%
  • Abilities 12%
• 2017

  A test of the submentalizing hypothesis: apes' performance in a false belief task inanimate control

  Krupenye, C., Kano, F., Hirata, S., Call, J. & Tomasello, M., Sept 2017, In: Communicative and Integrative Biology. 10, 4, e1343771.

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  • False Belief 100%
  • Mental State 25%
  • Eye-Tracking 25%

• Chimpanzee culture extends beyond matrilineal family units

  van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Mundry, R., Cronin, K. A., Bodamer, M. & Haun, D. B. M., 19 Jun 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Current Biology. 27, 12, p. R588-R590 3 p.

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  • Cultural Differences 100%

• Chimpanzees, bonobos and children successfully coordinate in conflict situations

  Sánchez-Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J. & Tomasello, M., 14 Jun 2017, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284, 1856

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  • Decision Making 100%
  • Action Potential 100%

• Conservatism and "copy-if-better" in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

  van Leeuwen, E. J. C. & Call, J., May 2017, In: Animal Cognition. 20, 3, p. 575-579 5 p.

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  • Copy 100%
  • Social Learning 100%
  • tokens 80%
  • Variant 20%
  • Ecological 20%

• Contextual imitation of intransitive body actions in a Beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas): a “do as other does” study

  Abramson, J. Z., Hernández-Lloreda, M. V., Esteban, J.-A., Colmenares, F., Aboitiz, F. & Call, J., 21 Jun 2017, In: PLoS One. 12, 6, 13 p., e0178906.

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  • Motor Action 100%

• Eye tracking uncovered great apes' ability to anticipate that other individuals will act according to false beliefs

  Kano, F., Krupenye, C., Hirata, S. & Call, J., 2017, In: Communicative and Integrative Biology. 10, 2, e1299836.

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  • Eye-Tracking 100%
  • False Belief 100%
  • Eye Movement 100%

• Food cleaning in gorillas: social learning is a possibility but not a necessity

  Neadle, D., Allritz, M. & Tennie, C., 4 Dec 2017, In: PLoS One. 12, 12, 16 p., e0188866.

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  • Social Learning 100%

• Information seeking about tool properties in great apes

  Bohn, M., Allritz, M., Call, J. & Voelter, C. J., 7 Sept 2017, In: Scientific Reports. 7, 10923.

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  • Information Seeking 100%
  • Metacognition 20%
  • Cognitive Process 20%
• 2016

  Chimpanzees coordinate in a snowdrift game

  Sánchez-Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J. & Tomasello, M., Jun 2016, In: Animal Behaviour. 116, p. 61-74 14 p.

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  • Conflict of Interest 100%
  • Pan Troglodytes 100%

• Great apes anticipate that other individuals will act according to false beliefs

  Krupenye, C., Kano, F., Hirata, S., Call, J. & Tomasello, M., 7 Oct 2016, In: Science. 354, 6308, p. 110-114

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  • False Belief 100%
  • Theory of Mind 33%
  • Cognitive Skill 33%

• The nature of prosociality in chimpanzees

  Tennie, C., Jensen, K. & Call, J., 20 Dec 2016, In: Nature Communications. 7, 13915.

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  • Prosociality 100%
  • Prosocial Behavior 50%

• The role of past interactions in great apes’ communication about absent entities

  Bohn, M., Call, J. & Tomasello, M., Nov 2016, In: Journal of Comparative Psychology. 130, 4, p. 351-357

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  • Roles 100%
  • Abilities 100%