Rough-and-tumble play as a window on animal communication

Emotionality and intentionality in bonobo playful communication

(2014) Elisa Demuru et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Are 50-kHz calls used as play signals in the playful interactions of rats? I. Evidence from the timing and context of their use

(2014) B.T. Himmler et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

The Meanings of Chimpanzee Gestures

(2014) Catherine Hobaiter et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Body signals during social play in free-ranging rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): A systematic analysis

(2013) Akie Yanagi et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Ethotransmission: communication of emotional states through ultrasonic vocalization in rats

(2013) Stefan M Brudzynski   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Early Social Experience Is Critical for the Development of Cognitive Control and Dopamine Modulation of Prefrontal Cortex Function

(2013) Petra J J Baarendse et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

In Play We Trust. Rapid Facial Mimicry Predicts the Duration of Playful Interactions in Geladas

(2013) Giada Mancini et al.   PLoS One

Rapid Facial Mimicry In Geladas

(2013) Giada Mancini et al.   Scientific Reports

Social tolerance and adult play in macaque societies: a comparison with different human cultures

(2012) Francesca Ciani et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The Role of Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Memory and Decision Making

(2012) David R. Euston et al.   NEURON

The Right Time to Happen: Play Developmental Divergence in the Two Pan Species

(2012) Elisabetta Palagi et al.   PLoS One

Serial gesturing by wild chimpanzees: its nature and function for communication

(2011) Catherine Hobaiter et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

The gestural repertoire of the wild chimpanzee

(2011) Catherine Hobaiter et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

To whom the play signal is directed: A study of headshaking in black-handed spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi).

(2011) Sergio M. Pellis et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

The use of the bared-teeth display during play fighting in Tonkean macaques (Macaca tonkeana): Sometimes it is all about oneself.

(2011) Sergio M. Pellis et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Playing with the face: Playful facial “chattering” and signal modulation in a monkey species (Theropithecus gelada).

(2011) Elisabetta Palagi et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

In search of the neurobiological substrates for social playfulness in mammalian brains

(2011) Stephen M. Siviy et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Ontogenetic Trajectories of Chimpanzee Social Play: Similarities with Humans

(2011) Giada Cordoni et al.   PLoS One

Laughing, Smiling, and Talking: Relation to Sleeping and Social Context in Humans

(2010) Robert R. Provine et al.   ETHOLOGY

Current Perspectives on the Biological Study of Play: Signs of Progress

(2010) Kerrie Lewis Graham et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

The pleasures of play: pharmacological insights into social reward mechanisms

(2010) Viviana Trezza et al.   TRENDS IN PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Gestural communication of the gorilla (Gorilla gorilla): repertoire, intentionality and possible origins

(2009) Emilie Genty et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

The role of the medial prefrontal cortex in the play fighting of rats.

(2009) Heather C. Bell et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Social play in captive wolves (Canis lupus): not only an immature affair

(2009) Giada Cordoni   BEHAVIOUR

Adult play fighting and potential role of tail signals in ringtailed lemurs (Lemur catta).

(2009) Elisabetta Palagi   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Revisiting play elements and self-handicapping in play: A comparative ethogram of five Old World monkey species.

(2009) Milada Petrů et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Solitary and social play in wild Mus musculus (Mammalia)

(2009) Robert J. Wolff   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

An investigation of playful behaviour in Rattus norvegicus and Mus musculus (Mammalia)

(2009) Trevor B. Poole et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Partner preferences and asymmetries in social play among domestic dog, Canis lupus familiaris, littermates

(2008) Camille Ward et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Attention to attention in domestic dog (Canis familiaris) dyadic play

(2008) Alexandra Horowitz   ANIMAL COGNITION

Imitation, Empathy, and Mirror Neurons

(2008) Marco Iacoboni   Annual Review of Psychology

Social play in crested and japanese macaques: Testing the covariation hypothesis

(2008) O. Petit et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Cannabinoid and opioid modulation of social play behavior in adolescent rats: Differential behavioral mechanisms

(2008) Viviana Trezza et al.   EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Head rotations in the play of Hanuman langurs (semnopithecus entellus): Description and analysis of function.

(2008) Milada Petrů et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Ultrasonic vocalizations of rats (Rattus norvegicus) during mating, play, and aggression: Behavioral concomitants, relationship to reward, and self-administration of playback..

(2008) Jeffrey Burgdorf et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Neural circuitry of play fighting in golden hamsters

(2008) S.-Y. Cheng et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Sharing the motivation to play: the use of signals in adult bonobos

(2007) E. Palagi   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Putting the Altruism Back into Altruism: The Evolution of Empathy

(2007) Frans B.M. de Waal   Annual Review of Psychology

Rapid facial mimicry in orangutan play

(2007) M. Davila Ross et al.   Biology Letters