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20.12.2022
 

3rd place for the best student talk at the XVI International Congress of Acarology

03.11.2022
 
03.10.2022
 

Ein Forschungsteam um Cliodhna Quigley untersucht am Beispiel von Lachtauben das Schönheitsempfinden von Tieren.

19.09.2022
 

Im Rahmen des Biologicum Almtal und Junior Biologicum werden wissenschaftliche Themen auf verständliche Weise vermittelt.

19.08.2022
 

Lisa Horn und ihr interdisziplinäres Forschungsteam gehen in den Kindergarten: Die Expertin für Beziehungen hat bereits zu den sozialen Verbindungen...

12.08.2022
 

New Science paper out!

Evolutionary loss of complexity in human vocal anatomy as an adaptation for speech.

Publications


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

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

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

Ravignani A, Matellán Olivera V, Gingras B, Hofer R, Rodríguez Hernández C, Sonnweber RS et al. Primate drum kit: a system for studying acoustic pattern production by non-human primates using acceleration and strain sensors. Sensors. 2013;13(8):9790-9820. doi: 10.3390/s130809790

Fitch WT, Zuberbühler K. Primate Precursors to Human Language: Beyond Discontinuity. In The Evolution of Emotional Communication. Oxford University Press. 2013