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Publications


Boch M, Lamm C. The multiple facets of empathy. Animal Sentience. 2017;2(14):14. doi: 10.51291/2377-7478.1278

Kotrschal K. Vom wilden Wolf zum treuen Freund. In Florian S, editor, Unsere Hunde. Herr am Hof Verlag. 2017

Kotrschal K. Warum wirken Tiere in der Pädagogik? Erziehung und Unterricht. 2017;9-10:696-706.

Martins M, Martins IP, Fitch WT. A novel approach to investigate recursion and iteration in visual hierarchical processing. Behavior Research Methods. 2016 Dec;48:1421–1442. doi: 10.3758/s13428-015-0657-1

Fitch WT, de Boer B, Mathur N, Ghazanfar AA. Monkey vocal tracts are speech-ready. Science Advances. 2016 Dec;2(12):e1600723. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1600723

Auersperg A, Borasinski S, Laumer I, Kacelnik A. Goffin’s cockatoos make the same tool type from different materials. Biology Letters. 2016 Nov 1;12(11):20160689. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0689

Deventer S, Uhl F, Bugnyar T, Miller R, Fitch WT, Schiestl M et al. Behavioural Type Affects Space Use in a Wild Population of Crows (Corvus corone). Ethology. 2016 Nov;122(11):881–891. doi: 10.1111/eth.12536

Zaccaroni M, Della Seta D, Farabollini F, Fusani L, Dessi-Fulgheri F. Developmental Exposure to Very Low Levels of Ethynilestradiol Affects Anxiety in a Novelty Place Preference Test of Juvenile Rats. Neurotoxicity Research. 2016 Nov;30(4):553–562. doi: 10.1007/s12640-016-9645-1

Miller R, Schwab C, Bugnyar T. Explorative Innovators and Flexible Use of Social Information in Common Ravens (Corvus corax) and Carrion Crows (Corvus corone). Journal of Comparative Psychology. 2016 Nov;130(4):328-340. doi: 10.1037/com0000039

Schwing R, Jocteur E, Wein A, Noe R, Massen JJM. Kea cooperate better with sharing affiliates. Animal Cognition. 2016 Nov;19(6):1093-1102. doi: 10.1007/s10071-016-1017-y

Herbst CT, Unger J, Herzel H, Švec JG, Lohscheller J. Phasegram Analysis of Vocal Fold Vibration Documented With Laryngeal High-speed Video Endoscopy. Journal of Voice. 2016 Nov;30(6):771.e1-771.e15. doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2015.11.006

Höschele M, Bowling D. “Sex differences in rhythmic preferences in the budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus): A comparative study with humans”. Frontiers in Psychology. 2016 Oct 4;7:1543. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01543

Horn L, Scheer C, Bugnyar T, Massen JJM. Proactive prosociality in a cooperatively breeding corvid, the azure-winged magpie (Cyanopica cyana). Biology Letters. 2016 Oct 1;12(6):20160649. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0649

Kotrschal K. Verwaltungsaufblähung und Verschulung? In Kellermann P, Guggenberger H, Weber K, editors, Universität nach Bologna? Hochschulkonzeptionen zwischen Kritik und Utopie. Mandelbaum Verlag. 2016

da Silva Vasconcellos A, Virányi Z, Range F, Ades C, Scheidegger JK, Möstl E et al. Training Reduces Stress in Human-Socialised Wolves to the Same Degree as in Dogs. PLoS ONE. 2016 Sept 9;11(9):e0162389. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162389

Slipogor V, Gunhold-de Oliveira T, Tadic Z, Massen JJM, Bugnyar T. Consistent inter-individual differences in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) in Boldness-Shyness, Stress-Activity, and Exploration-Avoidance. American Journal of Primatology. 2016 Sept;78(9):961–973. doi: 10.1002/ajp.22566

O'Hara M, Schwing R, Federspiel I, Gajdon G, Huber L. Reasoning by exclusion in the kea (Nestor notabilis). Animal Cognition. 2016 Sept;19(5):965–975. doi: 10.1007/s10071-016-0998-x

Gallup AC, Massen JJM. There is no difference in contagious yawning between men and women. The Royal Society Open Science. 2016 Sept;3(9):160174. doi: 10.1098/rsos.160174

Massen JJM, Slipogor V, Gallup AC. An Observational Investigation of Behavioral Contagion in Common Marmosets (Callithrix jacchus): Indications for Contagious Scent-Marking. Frontiers in Psychology. 2016 Aug 9;7:01190. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01190

Enflo L, Herbst CT, Sundberg J, McAllister A. Comparing Vocal Fold Contact Criteria Derived From Audio and Electroglottographic Signals. Journal of Voice. 2016 Jul 1;30(4):381-388. doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2015.05.015

Frigerio D, Cibulski L, Ludwig SC, Campderrich I, Kotrschal K, Wascher C. Excretion patterns of coccidian oocysts and nematode eggs during the reproductive season in Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita). Journal of Ornithology. 2016 Jul;157(3):839-851. doi: 10.1007/s10336-015-1317-z

Sumasgutner P, Tate GJ, Koeslag A, Amar A. Family morph matters: factors determining survival and recruitment in a long-lived polymorphic raptor. Journal of Animal Ecology. 2016 Jul;85(4):1043-1055. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12518

Kulahci IG, Rubenstein DI, Bugnyar T, Hoppitt W, Mikus N, Schwab C. Social networks predict selective observation and information spread in ravens. The Royal Society Open Science. 2016 Jul;3(7):160256. doi: 10.1098/rsos.160256

Fitch WT. Why formal semantics and primate communication make strange bedfellows. Theoretical Linguistics. 2016 Jul;42(1-2):97-109. doi: 10.1515/tl-2016-0003

Olkowicz S, Kocourek M, Lucan RK, Porteš M, Fitch WT, Herculano-Houze S et al. Birds have primate-like numbers of neurons in the forebrain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). 2016 Jun 28;113(26):7255–7260. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1517131113

Geambasu A, Ravignani A, Levelt CC. Preliminary Experiments on Human Sensitivity to Rhythmic Structure in a Grammar with Recursive Self-Similarity. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 2016 Jun 28;10:281. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2016.00281