Multimodal communication and language origins: integrating gestures and vocalizations

The function of primate multimodal communication

(2018) Marlen Fröhlich et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

How primates acquire their gestures: evaluating current theories and evidence

(2018) Katja Liebal et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Gestural acquisition in great apes: the Social Negotiation Hypothesis

(2018) Simone Pika et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Flexible usage and social function in primate vocalizations

(2018) Dorothy L. Cheney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Taking turns: bridging the gap between human and animal communication

(2018) Simone Pika et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Chimpanzee quiet hoo variants differ according to context

(2018) Catherine Crockford et al.   Royal Society Open Science

A gestural repertoire of 1- to 2-year-old human children: in search of the ape gestures

(2018) Verena Kersken et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

No Evidence for Recent Selection at FOXP2 among Diverse Human Populations

(2018) Elizabeth Grace Atkinson et al.   CELL

Compositionality in animals and humans

(2018) Simon W. Townsend et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The development of gestural communication in great apes

(2018) Marlen Fröhlich et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Vocal Turn-Taking in Meerkat Group Calling Sessions

(2018) Vlad Demartsev et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Taking turns across channels: Conversation-analytic tools in animal communication

(2017) Marlen Fröhlich   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

A comparative neurological approach to emotional expressions in primate vocalizations

(2017) Thibaud Gruber et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Cognitive control of vocalizations in the primate ventrolateral-dorsomedial frontal (VLF-DMF) brain network

(2017) Kep Kee Loh et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Bidding evidence for primate vocal learning and the cultural substrates for speech evolution

(2017) Adriano R. Lameira   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Emojis: Insights, Affordances, and Possibilities for Psychological Science

(2017) Linda K. Kaye et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Vocalizing in chimpanzees is influenced by social-cognitive processes

(2017) Catherine Crockford et al.   Science Advances

The gestural repertoire of the wild bonobo (Pan paniscus): a mutually understood communication system

(2016) Kirsty E. Graham et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Should I stay or should I go? Initiation of joint travel in mother–infant dyads of two chimpanzee communities in the wild

(2016) Marlen Fröhlich et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Reference in human and non-human primate communication: What does it take to refer?

(2016) Christine Sievers et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Exorcising Grice's ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals

(2016) Simon W. Townsend et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Structural Organization of the Laryngeal Motor Cortical Network and Its Implication for Evolution of Speech Production

(2016) V. Kumar et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Meaningful call combinations and compositional processing in the southern pied babbler

(2016) Sabrina Engesser et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Turn-taking in Human Communication – Origins and Implications for Language Processing

(2016) Stephen C. Levinson   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Dual Neural Network Model for the Evolution of Speech and Language

(2016) Steffen R. Hage et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls

(2016) Toshitaka N. Suzuki et al.   Nature Communications

Monkey vocal tracts are speech-ready

(2016) W. T. Fitch et al.   Science Advances

Unpeeling the layers of language: Bonobos and chimpanzees engage in cooperative turn-taking sequences

(2016) Marlen Fröhlich et al.   Scientific Reports

Vocal fold control beyond the species-specific repertoire in an orang-utan

(2016) Adriano R. Lameira et al.   Scientific Reports

Multimodal communication in chimpanzees

(2015) Jared P. Taglialatela et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Meaning and ostension in great ape gestural communication

(2015) Richard Moore   ANIMAL COGNITION

Vocal Learning in the Functionally Referential Food Grunts of Chimpanzees

(2015) Stuart K. Watson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Pointing and pantomime in wild apes? Female bonobos use referential and iconic gestures to request genito-genital rubbing

(2015) Pamela Heidi Douglas et al.   Scientific Reports

An intentional vocalization draws others’ attention: A playback experiment with wild chimpanzees

(2014) Catherine Crockford et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Responses of vervet monkeys in large troops to terrestrial and aerial predator alarm calls

(2014) Nicholas Ducheminsky et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The Meanings of Chimpanzee Gestures

(2014) Catherine Hobaiter et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Spatial Reference in a Bonobo Gesture

(2014) Emilie Genty et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The bridge of iconicity: from a world of experience to the experience of language

(2014) P. Perniss et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The origin of human multi-modal communication

(2014) S. C. Levinson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Language as a multimodal phenomenon: implications for language learning, processing and evolution

(2014) G. Vigliocco et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis for language acquisition and language evolution

(2014) M. Imai et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Multi-Modal Use of a Socially Directed Call in Bonobos

(2014) Emilie Genty et al.   PLoS One

Language evolution: syntax before phonology?

(2014) K. Collier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Gestures and social-emotional communicative development in chimpanzee infants

(2013) Kim A. Bard et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

The ontogenetic ritualization of bonobo gestures

(2013) Marta Halina et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Multisensory vocal communication in primates and the evolution of rhythmic speech

(2013) Asif A. Ghazanfar   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Ten unanswered questions in multimodal communication

(2013) Sarah R. Partan   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

An introduction to multimodal communication

(2013) James P. Higham et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Coupled Oscillator Dynamics of Vocal Turn-Taking in Monkeys

(2013) Daniel Y. Takahashi et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Angry Birds Need Not Apply: A Perspective on the Flexible form and Multifunctionality of Avian Vocal Duets

(2013) Christine R. Dahlin et al.   ETHOLOGY

Deictic gesturing in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)? Some possible cases.

(2013) Catherine Hobaiter et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Vocal Recruitment for Joint Travel in Wild Chimpanzees

(2013) Thibaud Gruber et al.   PLoS One

Chimpanzee Alarm Call Production Meets Key Criteria for Intentionality

(2013) Anne Marijke Schel et al.   PLoS One

Single neurons in monkey prefrontal cortex encode volitional initiation of vocalizations

(2013) Steffen R. Hage et al.   Nature Communications

Referential gestures in fish collaborative hunting

(2013) Alexander L. Vail et al.   Nature Communications

Multicomponent and Multimodal Lipsmacking in Crested Macaques (Macaca nigra)

(2012) JÉRÔME MICHELETTA et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Food-associated vocalizations in mammals and birds: what do these calls really mean?

(2012) Zanna Clay et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Gesture's Role in Speaking, Learning, and Creating Language

(2012) Susan Goldin-Meadow et al.   Annual Review of Psychology

Social learning of a communicative signal in captive chimpanzees

(2012) J. P. Taglialatela et al.   Biology Letters

The sound of one-hand clapping: handedness and perisylvian neural correlates of a communicative gesture in chimpanzees

(2012) A. Meguerditchian et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The language void: the need for multimodality in primate communication research

(2011) Katie E. Slocombe et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

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

Confrontational scavenging as a possible source for language and cooperation

(2011) Derek Bickerton et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Call combinations in monkeys: Compositional or idiomatic expressions?

(2011) Kate Arnold et al.   BRAIN AND LANGUAGE

Wild Chimpanzees Inform Ignorant Group Members of Danger

(2011) Catherine Crockford et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Orangutan Instrumental Gesture-Calls: Reconciling Acoustic and Gestural Speech Evolution Models

(2011) Adriano R. Lameira et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Chimpanzee Vocal Signaling Points to a Multimodal Origin of Human Language

(2011) Jared P. Taglialatela et al.   PLoS One

Neurons Controlling Voluntary Vocalization in the Macaque Ventral Premotor Cortex

(2011) Gino Coudé et al.   PLoS One

The use of referential gestures in ravens (Corvus corax) in the wild

(2011) Simone Pika et al.   Nature Communications

The central importance of information in studies of animal communication

(2010) Robert M. Seyfarth et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Acoustic Properties of Long Calls Given by Flanged Male Orang-Utans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) Reflect Both Individual Identity and Context

(2010) Brigitte Spillmann et al.   ETHOLOGY

Essay on Contemporary Issues in Ethology: Variation among Mammalian Alarm Call Systems and the Problem of Meaning in Animal Signals

(2010) Joseph M. Macedonia et al.   ETHOLOGY

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

(2009) Emilie Genty et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Eight Problems for the Mirror Neuron Theory of Action Understanding in Monkeys and Humans

(2009) Gregory Hickok   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

The alarm call system of two species of black-and-white colobus monkeys (Colobus polykomos and Colobus guereza).

(2009) Anne Marijke Schel et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Maps and streams in the auditory cortex: nonhuman primates illuminate human speech processing

(2009) Josef P Rauschecker et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Campbell's Monkeys Use Affixation to Alter Call Meaning

(2009) Karim Ouattara et al.   PLoS One

Symbolic gestures and spoken language are processed by a common neural system

(2009) J. Xu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Universals and cultural variation in turn-taking in conversation

(2009) T. Stivers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of human vocal production

(2008) Asif A. Ghazanfar et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Meaningful call combinations in a non-human primate

(2008) Kate Arnold et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Patches of face-selective cortex in the macaque frontal lobe

(2008) Doris Y Tsao et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

A case of spontaneous acquisition of a human sound by an orangutan

(2008) Serge A. Wich et al.   PRIMATES