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Decoding Preschool Social Dynamics: Automated Tracking of Spatial and Temporal Patterns to Investigate Social Interactions and Relationships in Peer...

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

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

21.11.2025
 

What enables human language? A biocultural framework

 

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

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Publications


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Popescu T, Fitch WT. Music and animal song follow a mode of extra-genomic evolution similar to that of language. Physics of Life Reviews. 2025 Jul;53:141-143. Epub 2025 Feb 28. doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.02.009

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;2025(4):e03474. doi: 10.1002/jav.03474

Dehove M, Mikuni J, Podolin N, Leder H, Oberzaucher E. The Impact of Urban art on Wellbeing: A Laboratory Study. Empirical Studies of the Arts. 2025 Jul;43(2):1240-1268. doi: 10.1177/02762374241298878

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.

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):20250010. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2025.0010

Carrard T, Nourani E, Jansing L, Zimmermann T, Sumasgutner P, Tschumi M et al. Golden eagles regularly use gravity waves to soar: 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, 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

Turker S, Fumagalli B, Hartwigsen G, Kuhnke P. The 'reading' brain: Meta-analytic insight into functional activation during reading in adults. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews . 2025 Jun;173:106166. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106166

Eleuteri V, van der Werff J, Wilhelm W, Soldati A, Crockford C, Desai N et al. Chimpanzee drumming shows rhythmicity and subspecies variation. Current Biology. 2025 May 19;35(10):2448-2456.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.019

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):112424. Epub 2025 Apr 14. 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

Brosche K, McGetrick J, Rault JL. Step Aside! Assessing Body Awareness In Pigs Using A Body-As-An-Obstacle Task. Animal Behavior and Cognition. 2025 May 1;12(2):172-234. doi: 10.26451/abc.12.02.02.2025

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

Colombelli‑Négrel D, Katsis A, Common L, Kleindorfer S. Personality predicts song complexity in superb fairy- wrens. The Royal Society Open Science. 2025 Apr 16;12(4):241497. doi: 10.1098/rsos.241497

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

Eckert L, Hartwigsen G, Turker S. Cognitive-Linguistic Profiles of German Adults with Dyslexia. Behavioral Sciences. 2025 Apr 13;15(4):522. doi: 10.3390/bs15040522

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

Fitch WT, Anikin A, Pisanski K, Valente D, Reby D. Formant analysis of vertebrate vocalizations: achievements, pitfalls, and promises. BMC Biology. 2025 Apr 7;23(1):92. doi: 10.1186/s12915-025-02188-w

McPherson SC, Common LK, Thomsett S, Downs CT, Sumasgutner P. Using wing bar patterns to identify sex in Crowned Eagles Stephanoaetus coronatus: A misleading field characteristic. Ostrich. 2025 Apr 7;96(1):54-58. doi: 10.2989/00306525.2025.2459646

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

Fitch WT. Applying nonlinear dynamics to the voice: a historical perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2025 Apr 3;380(1923):20240024. Epub 2025 Apr 3. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0024

Anikin A, Herbst CT. How to analyse and manipulate nonlinear phenomena in voice recordings. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2025 Apr 3;380(1923):20240003. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0003

Herbst CT, Tokuda IT, Nishimura T, Ternström S, Ossio V, Levy M et al. "Monkey yodels" -- frequency jumps in New World monkey vocalizations greatly surpass human vocal register transitions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2025 Apr 3;380(1923):20240005. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0005

Muir J, Herbst CT, Hawes JE, O'Mahoney TG, Dunn JC. Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2025 Apr 3;380(1923):20240017. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0017

Massenet M, Mathevon N, Anikin A, Briefer EF, Fitch WT, Reby D. Nonlinear phenomena in vertebrate vocalizations: mechanisms and communicative functions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2025 Apr 3;380(1923):20240002. Epub 2025 Apr 3. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0002

Herbst CT, Elemans CPH. Vocal registers expand signal diversity in vertebrate vocal communication. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2025 Apr 3;380(1923):20240006. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0006

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