Department of Behavioral & Cognitive Biology

We study behavioral and cognitive traits from the multiple perspectives of mechanism, function, development and evolutionary history. Our research centers around questions about cognitive and communicative processes, the endocrine and genetic control of behavior, and the influence of ecological and environmental factors on behavioral phenotypes. We work on a variety of vertebrate species and we conduct studies under controlled lab- and ecologically valid field conditions.

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13.02.2026
 

Aligning Statistical Models with Inference Goals in the Neuroscience of Language: A Dual-Dependency Taxonomy

by Sophie Bouton, Valérian Chambon,...
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06.02.2026 14:48
 

EthoGes2026 (18–21 February 2026) and DK Symposium Cognition and Communication (23–24 February 2026)
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21.11.2025
 

What enables human language? A biocultural framework

 

Inbal Arnon, Liran Carmel, Nicolas Claidière, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Simon...
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