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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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Bapat A, Kempf AE, Friry S, Boucherie P, Bugnyar T. Patterns of object play behaviour and its functional implications in free-flying common ravens. Scientific Reports. 2025 Dec;15(1):137. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-83856-9

Ye H, Šlipogor V, Hanson BT, Séneca J, Hausmann B, Herbold CW et al. Associations between gut microbiota and personality traits: insights from a captive common marmoset ( Callithrix jacchus) colony. Microbiology Spectrum. 2025 Nov 18;e0044325. Epub 2025 Nov 18. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.00443-25

Haba Y, PipPop Consortium‡. Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2025 Oct 23;390(6771):eady4515. doi: 10.1126/science.ady4515

Chen SC, Buchanan EM, Kekecs Z, Miller JK, Szabelska A, Aczel B et al. Investigating object orientation effects across 18 languages. Current Psychology. 2025 Oct 22. doi: 10.1007/s12144-025-08304-x

Nemeth M, Jost T, Millesi E, Siutz C. Effects of walnut oil on long-term memory of rats in a multiple-T-maze. Physiology and Behavior. 2025 Oct 15;300:115035. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2025.115035

Balboni I, Rampinini A, Kepinska O, Berthele R, Golestani N. Brain activation for language and its relationship to cognitive and linguistic measures. Cerebral Cortex. 2025 Sept 9;35(8):bhaf231. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhaf231

Stückler S, Donnachie E, Fuxjager MJ, Gururaja KV, Hegde G, Wampula T et al. Dynamic Sexual Dichromatism Promotes Rapid Mate Recognition in an Explosive Breeding Toad. Ichthyology & Herpetology. 2025 Sept 2;113(3):517-526. doi: 10.1643/h2024105

Calabretta E, Canoine V, Cardinale M, Maggini I, Fusani L. Passerine stopover physiology: weather variability does not alter corticosterone dynamics after sea crossing. Journal of Avian Biology. 2025 Jul. doi: 10.1002/jav.03474

Scheiber IBR, Slettenhaar A, Loonen M, de Jong ME. Dads on Duty: First account of nest sitting in Barnacle ganders. Ardea. 2025 Jun 13;113(1):1-11.

Chimento M, Dalmaijer E, Klump BC, Aplin LM. Temporal dynamics and policy implications in an innovation arms race. bioRxiv. 2025 Jun 10. Epub 2025 Jun 10. doi: 10.1101/2025.02.13.638049

Klump BC, Walter D, Martin JM, Aplin LM. Emergence of a novel drinking innovation in an urban population of sulphur-crested cockatoos, Cacatua galerita. Biology Letters. 2025 Jun 4;21(6). doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2025.0010

de Jong ME, Slettenhaar AJ, Fokkema RW, Leh M, Verhoeven MA, Griffin LR et al. Diel rhythmicity of activity and corticosterone metabolites in Arctic barnacle geese during breeding. Behavioral Ecology. 2025 Jun;36(4):araf071. doi: 10.1093/beheco/araf071

Carrard T, Nourani E, Jansing L, Zimmermann T, Sumasgutner P, Tschumi M et al. Golden eagles regularly use gravity waves to soar in the Alps: new insights from high-resolution weather data. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 2025 Jun;22(227):20240891. Epub 2025 Jun 4. doi: 10.1101/2024.10.29.620992, 10.1098/rsif.2024.0891

Todorova B, Steininger MO, Lamm C, Doell KC. Neuroscience and climate action: intersecting pathways for brain and planetary health. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 2025 Jun;63:101522. doi: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101522

Geiger SJ, Köhler JK, Delabrida ZNC, Garduño-Realivazquez KA, Haugestad CAP, Imada H et al. What We Think Others Think and Do About Climate Change: A Multicountry Test of Pluralistic Ignorance and Public-Consensus Messaging. Psychological Science. 2025 Jun;36(6):421-442. doi: 10.1177/09567976251335585

Nguyen TH, Schausberger P. Parental and personal experience drive personality formation and individual niche diversification in group-living mites. Iscience. 2025 May 16;28(5). doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.112424

Rodseth E, Amar A, Sumasgutner P, Ingle R. Plumage polymorphism in the black sparrowhawk (Accipiter melanoleucus) is strongly associated with the expression level of agouti signaling protein. Journal of Heredity. 2025 May 1;116(3):193-207. esae068. doi: 10.1093/jhered/esae068

Pahl A, Rault JL, McGetrick J, Eggert A, Nawroth C, Langbein J. Do goats exhibit prosocial motivation? Insights from a novel food-giving paradigm. Royal Society Open Science. 2025 May;12(5):250556. doi: 10.1098/rsos.250556

Katsis A, Common L, Lesigang J, Bold A, Fröhlich M, Schmincke JM et al. Flight initiation distance is repeatable and geographically flexible in greylag geese Anser anser. Journal of Avian Biology. 2025 May;2025(3):e03288. doi: 10.1111/jav.03288

van Oosten JCP, Vanhooland LC, Roth TS, Gallup AC, Massen JJM. No Experimental Evidence For Yawn Contagion In Galahs (Eolophus Roseicapilla). Animal Behavior and Cognition. 2025 May;12(2):148-171. doi: 10.26451/abc.12.02.01.2025

Grabner JV, Kempf AE, Nederlof AMN, Varkevisser JM, Spierings MJ. Rhythmic Roots: The Adaptive Functions of Vocal Isochrony and Its Role in Human Music and Language Evolution. Psychological Topics. 2025 Apr 16;34(1):1-24. doi: 10.31820/pt.34.1.1

Lameris TK, Boom MP, Nuijten RJM, Buitendijk NH, Eichhorn G, Ens BJ et al. Migratory Birds Advance Spring Arrival and Egg-­ Laying in the Arctic, Mostly by Travelling Faster. Global Change Biology. 2025 Apr 9;31(4):e70158. doi: 10.1111/gcb.70158

Aispuro AA, Maggini I, Fusani L, Canoine V. Testosterone dynamics of migratory birds during stopover. Scientific Reports. 2025 Apr 6;15(1):11745. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-95413-z, 10.1038/s41598-025-95413-z

Dittrich C, Mangione R, Marquis O, Ringler E, Lemaire J. Ecological and Behavioral Implications of Multiple Paternity in the Smooth-Fronted Caiman in French Guiana. Ecology and Evolution. 2025 Apr;15(4):e71337. Epub 2025 Apr 23. doi: 10.1002/ece3.71337

Nhlapo KB, Cunningham SJ, Sumasgutner P, Ganswindt A, McKechnie AE, Ngcamphalala CA. High human presence is correlated with lower faecal glucocorticoid metabolite levels in an urban bird population. Hormones and Behavior. 2025 Apr;170:105724. Epub 2025 Mar 18. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2025.105724

Kepinska O, Dalboni da Rocha JL, Tuerk C, Hervais-Adelman A, Bouhali F, Green D et al. Auditory cortex anatomy reflects multilingual phonological experience. eLife. 2025 Mar 26;12:RP90269. doi: 10.7554/eLife.90269

Steininger M, White M, Lengersdorff L, Zhang L, Smalley AJ, Kühn S et al. Nature exposure induces analgesic effects by acting on nociception-related neural processing. Nature Communications. 2025 Mar 13;16(1):2037. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-56870-2

Santacá M, Carabba F, Mihindukulasooriya Fernando A, Pitocco E, Battaglini L, Granziol U. Exploring the classical and numerical Delboeuf illusion: the impact of transcranial alternating current stimulation on magnitude processing. PeerJ. 2025 Mar 10;13:e19064. Epub 2025 Mar 10. doi: 10.7717/peerj.19064

Lemaire J, Mangione R, Spießberger M, Burgstaller S, Staufer M, Gruber E et al. Mercury contamination in the European green toad Bufotes viridis in Vienna, Austria. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 2025 Mar 1;292:117957. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2025.117957

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