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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...

22.09.2025
 

Brain activation for language and its relationship to cognitive and linguistic measures

Irene Balboni, Alessandra Rampinini, Olga Kepinska, Raphael...

26.08.2025
 

"Startling ravens Corvus corax at foraging: differences in anti-predator behaviour can be explained by age rather than personality"

by: Janina Anna...

21.07.2025
 

A nice press release on gestures in elephants. Well done!

 

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/science/elephants-gesturing-trunk.html

 

09.07.2025
 

Congratulations to Prof. Leonida Fusani for receiving a further FWF grant for the project "Mating and bonding decisions in a challenging environment"

05.05.2025
 

Publications


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Fitch WT, Jarvis ED. Birdsong and other animal models for human speech, song, and vocal learning. In Language, Music, and the Brain: A Mysterious Relationship. MIT Press. 2013

Hahn A, Guillette L, Höschele M, Cook R, Sturdy C. Categories, concepts, and calls: Auditory perceptual mechanisms and cognitive abilities across different types of birds. In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. Vol. 19. 2013. 010042 doi: 10.1121/1.4799329

Frigerio D, Kotrschal K, Millesi E, Hemetsberger J. Children and Scientific Observations: Pupils Measuring Greylag Goose Behaviour. International Journal for Cross-Disciplinary Subjects in Education. 2013;3(4):871-876.

Massen JJM, Koski SE. Chimps of a feather: Chimpanzee friends have a similar personality. Folia Primatologica. 2013;84(3-5):301.

Riemer S, Viranyi Z, Müller C, Huber L, Range F. Choice of conflict resolution strategy is linked to sociability in dog puppies. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 2013;149(1-4):36-44. doi: 10.1016/j.applanim.2013.09.006

Herbst C, Svec J, Frey R, Gumpenberger M, Stöger A, Fitch WT et al. Complex vibratory patterns in an elephant larynx. Journal of Experimental Biology. 2013;216(21):4054-4064. doi: 10.1242/jeb.091009

Filippi P. Connessioni regolate: la chiave ontologica alle specie-specificità? Epekeina. International Journal of Ontology, History and Critics. 2013;2(1):203-223. DOI: 10.7408/epkn.epkn.v2i1.41.

Fitch WT, Mietchen D. Convergence and Deep Homology in the evolution of spoken language. In Birdsong, Speech and Language: Exploring the Evolution of Mind and Brain. MIT Press. 2013

Horn L, Marshall-Pescini S, Virányi Z, Range F. Cross-cultural differences in domestic dogs’ interactions with humans – preliminary results from Ainsworth’s Strange Situation Test. Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research. 2013;8(4):e39. doi: 10.1016/j.jveb.2013.04.043

Beetz A, Kotrschal K, Kölbl-Tschulik D. Der Einsatz von Hunden in der Schule. Erziehung und Unterricht. 2013;1/2:160-170.

Hahn A, Guillette L, Höschele M, Mennill D, Otter K, Grava T et al. Dominance and geographic information contained within black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) song. Behaviour: an international journal of behaviourial biology. 2013;150(13):1601 – 1622. doi: 10.1163/1568539X-00003111

Rabeder G, Kavcik N. "Drachenhöhle" Mixnitz.. 2013. Paper presented at 19th International Cave Bear Symposium Semriach (Styria, Austria), Semriach, Styria, Austria, Austria.

Stöger A. Ein Asiatischer Elefant imitiert menschliche Sprache. Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau. 2013;66:1-2.

Auersperg A, von Bayern A, Kacelnik A. Explorative learning and functional inferences on a five-step mechanical problem in juvenile Goffin’s cockatoos (Cacatua goffini). PLoS ONE. 2013;8(7). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068979

Martins CIM, Schaedelin FC, Mann M, Blum C, Mandl I, Urban D et al. Exploring novelty: a component trait of behavioural syndromes in a colonial fish. Behaviour: an international journal of behaviourial biology. 2013;149:215-231.

Hirschenhauser K, Buhrow H, Fischer-Mamblona H, Kotrschal K. Goose research then and now. In Scheiber I, Weiß B, Hemetsberger J, Kotrschal K, editors, The Social Life of Greylag Geese: Patterns, Mechanisms and Evolutionary Function in an Avian Model System. Cambridge University Press. 2013. p. 26-41

Hemetsberger J, Weiß BM, Scheiber I. Greylag geese: from general principles to the Konrad Lorenz flock. In Scheiber I, Weiß B, Hemetsberger J, Kotrschal K, editors, The Social Life of Greylag Geese: Patterns, Mechanisms and Evolutionary Function in an Avian Model System. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2013. p. 3-25

Gajdon G, Ortner TM, Wolf CC, Huber L. How to solve a mechanical problem: the relevance of visible and unobservable functionality for kea. Animal Cognition. 2013;16(3):483-492. doi: 10.1007/s10071-012-0588-5

Miller R, King C. Husbandry training, using positive reinforcement techniques, for Marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumeniferus). International Zoo Yearbook. 2013;47(47 DOI:10.1111/IZY.12001).

Gingras B, Asselin PY, McAdams S. Individuality in harpsichord performance: disentangling performer- and piece-specific influences on interpretive choices. Frontiers in Psychology. 2013;4:895. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00895

Kralj -Fiser S, Niall Daisley J, Kotrschal K. Individuals matter: personality. In Scheiber I, Weiß B, Hemetsberger J, Kotrschal K, editors, The Social Life of Greylag Geese: Patterns, Mechanisms and Evolutionary Function in an Avian Model System. Cambridge University Press. 2013. p. 45-64

Slana A, Gingras B, Fitch WT, Repovs G. Interference effect and cognitive control: The case of pitch class change detection. In Proceedings of the 16th International Multiconference of the Information Society. Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2013. p. 354-357

Aust U, Steurer M. Learning of an oddity rule by pigeons in a four-choice touch-screen procedure. Animal Cognition. 2013;16(3):321-341. doi: 10.1007/s10071-012-0574-y

Weiß B, Scheiber IBR. Long-term memory of hierarchical relationships in free-living greylag geese. Animal Cognition. 2013;16(1):91-97. doi: 10.1007/s10071-012-0554-2, 10.1007/s10071-012-0554-2

Preininger D, Böckle M, Freudmann A, Starnberger I, Sztatecsny M, Hödl W. Multimodal signaling in the Small Torrent Frog (Micrixalus saxicola) in a complex acoustic environment. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 2013;67(9):1449-1456. doi: 10.1007/s00265-013-1489-6

Fitch WT. Musical protolanguage: Darwin's theory of language evolution revisited. In Birdsong, Speech and Language : Exploring the Evolution of Mind and Brain. MIT Press. 2013

Fitch WT. Noam Chomsky and the Biology of Language. In Outsider Scientists: Routes to Innovation in Biology. University of Chicago Press. 2013. p. 201-222

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