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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


Pühringer-Sturmayr V, Stiefel T, Kotrschal K, Kleindorfer S, Frigerio D. Social interactions change with season and age in Northern Bald Ibis. Journal of Ornithology. 2021 Jan;162(1):277-288. doi: 10.1007/s10336-020-01824-2

Maghsadhagh S, Dalboni da Rocha JL, Benner J, Schneider P, Golestani N, Behjat H. A Discriminative Characterization of Heschl's Gyrus Morphology using Spectral Graph Features. 2021. doi: 10.1109/EMBC46164.2021.9630788

Matzinger T, Specker E, Ritt N, Fitch WTS. Aesthetic perception of prosodic patterns as a factor in speech segmentation. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 2021;43:2992-2998.

van Buuren M, Alfredsson J, Mioduszewska B, Tebbich S, von Bayern AMP. Bending and unbending of tools by New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) in a problem-solving context. Animal Behavior and Cognition. 2021;8(2):190-215. doi: 10.26451/abc.08.02.07.2021

Perinot E, Fritz J, Fusani L, Voelkl B, Nobile MS. Characterizing the flying behaviour of bird flocks with fuzzy reasoning. In Proceedings of WILF 2021, the 13th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications. Vol. 3074. 2021. 21. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).

Frigerio D, Richter A, Per E, Prūse B, Vohland K. Citizen Science in the Natural Sciences. In Vohland K, editor, The Science of Citizen Science. 1. ed. Cham: Springer International Publishing. 2021. p. 79-96

Kotrschal K. Die Natur des Menschen und die anderen Tiere: Tierschutz in evolutionärer Perspektive. In Horstmann S, editor, Interspezies Lernen: Grundlinien interdisziplinärer Tierschutz- und Tierrechtsbildung. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. 2021. p. 61-88. (Human-animal studies, Vol. 27).

Kotrschal K. Eine veränderte Sichtweise auf Tiere durch naturwissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse? In Mensch - Tier - Gott : interdisziplinäre Annäherungen an eine christliche Tierethik. 1. ed. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag. 2021. p. 87-112. (Interdisziplinäre Tierethik, Vol. 1).

Stoeger A. Elephant sonic and infrasonic sound production, perception and processing. In Neuroendocrine Regulation of Animal Vocalization: Mechanisms and Anthropogenic Factors in Animal Communication. 1. ed. Elsevier. 2021. p. 189-199 doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-815160-0.00023-2

Joseph L, Burbidge AH, Delhey K, Hansen BD, Kleindorfer S, Maurer G. Emu’s first 120 years: landmark papers of change in austral ornithology. Emu. 2021;121(4):284-291. doi: 10.1080/01584197.2021.1993529

Kleindorfer S, Common LK, O’Connor JA, García Loor HJ, Katsis AC, Dudaniec RY et al. Female in-nest attendance predicts the number of ectoparasites in Darwin’s finch species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 2021;288(1965):20211668. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1668

Ferretti A, Maggini I, Fusani L. How to recover after sea crossing: the importance of small islands for passerines during spring migration. Ethology Ecology and Evolution. 2021;33(3):307-320. doi: 10.1080/03949370.2021.1886181

Fitch WT. Information and the single cell. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 2021;71:150-157.

Frigerio D, Lampert P. Kooperation langfristig verankern. In Citizen Science Forschen mit Schulen. 2021

Kavcik-Graumann N, Alberti F, Döppes D, Friedrich R, Lindauer S, Plan L et al.. Late Pleistocene remains of cave bear cubs from a cave at Hochschwab (Styria, Austria). 2021. Paper presented at 26th International Cave Bear Symposium 2021 , Mannheim, Germany.

Krumpholz C, Quigley C, Little AC, Zäske R, Riebel K. Multimodal signalling of attractiveness. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Vol. 43. University of California. 2021. p. 31-32

Savage PE, Loui P, Tarr B, Schachner A, Glowacki L, Mithen S et al. Music as a coevolved system for social bonding. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 2021;44:e59. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X20000333

Keupp S, Abedin F, Jeanson L, Kade C, Kalbitz J, Titchener R et al. Performance-based social comparisons in humans and long-tailed macaques. Animal Behavior and Cognition. 2021;8(3):325-350. doi: 10.26451/abc.08.03.02.2021

Colombelli-Négrel D, Hauber ME, Evans C, Katsis AC, Brouwer L, Adreani MN et al. Prenatal auditory learning in avian vocal learners and non-learners. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 2021;376(1836):20200247. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0247

Bugnyar T. Raven social cognition and behavior. In The Cambridge Handbook of Animal Cognition. Cambridge University Press. 2021. p. 322-342

Hühls F, Stoeger A. Sentinel behavior in captive meerkats (Suricata suricatta). Zoo Biology. 2021;41(1):10-19. doi: 10.1002/zoo.21644

Bukowski H, Todorova B, Boch M, Silani G, Lamm C. Socio-cognitive training impacts emotional and perceptual self-salience but not self-other distinction. Acta Psychologica. 2021;216:103297. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/m2qwj, 10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103297

Haiduk F, Benjamin L, Morillon B, Albouy P. Spectrotemporal cues and attention modulate neural networks for speech and music. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 2021;43:3344.

Reynolds C, Byrne MJ, Chamberlain D, Howes CG, Seymour CL, Sumasgutner P et al. Urban Animal Diversity. In Shackleton CM, Cilliers SS, Davoren E, du Toit MJ, editors, Urban animal diversity in the Global South. Springer International Publishing AG . 2021. p. 169-202

Matzinger T, Fitch WTS. Voice modulatory cues to structure across languages and species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2021;376(1840):20200393. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0393

Karl S, Boch M, Zamansky A, van der Linden D, Wagner I, Völter CJ et al. Exploring the dog-human relationship by combining fMRI, eye-tracking and behavioural measures. Scientific Reports. 2020 Dec 17;10(1):22273. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-79247-5