Connecting primate gesture to the evolutionary roots of language: A systematic review

Is Conceptual Diversity an Advantage for Scientific Inquiry? A Case Study on the Concept of ‘Gesture’ in Comparative Psychology

(2020) Marie Bourjade et al.   INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE

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(2020) Michael M. Webster et al.   NATURE

Multimodal communication and language origins: integrating gestures and vocalizations

(2019) Marlen Fröhlich et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Gesture Use in Communication between Mothers and Offspring in Wild Orang-Utans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) from the Sabangau Peat-Swamp Forest, Borneo

(2019) Andrea Knox et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

The origins of gestures and language: history, current advances and proposed theories

(2019) Jacques Prieur et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Challenges Facing the Study of the Evolutionary Origins of Human Right-Handedness and Language

(2018) Jacques Prieur et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

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

Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures overlap extensively in meaning

(2018) Kirsty E. Graham et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

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

(2018) Verena Kersken et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

The development of gestural communication in great apes

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

Statistical evidence that a child can create a combinatorial linguistic system without external linguistic input: Implications for language evolution

(2017) Susan Goldin-Meadow et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

What is a gesture? A meaning-based approach to defining gestural repertoires

(2017) Catherine Hobaiter et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Call combinations, vocal exchanges and interparty movement in wild bonobos

(2016) Isaac Schamberg et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Not here, there! Possible referential gesturing during allogrooming by wild bonnet macaques, Macaca radiata

(2016) Shreejata Gupta et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

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

(2016) Kirsty E. Graham 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

Hand gestures as visual prosody: BOLD responses to audio–visual alignment are modulated by the communicative nature of the stimuli

(2016) Emmanuel Biau et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Tufted capuchins (Cebus apella) adapt their communicative behaviour to human’s attentional states

(2015) Charlotte Defolie et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Production and comprehension show divergent constituent order preferences: Evidence from elicited pantomime

(2015) Matthew L. Hall et al.   JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE

The Meanings of Chimpanzee Gestures

(2014) Catherine Hobaiter et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

How Could Language Have Evolved?

(2014) Johan J. Bolhuis et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Gestures and social-emotional communicative development in chimpanzee infants

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

Tonkean macaques communicate with their right hand

(2013) Hélène Meunier et al.   BRAIN AND LANGUAGE

Chimpanzee Alarm Call Production Meets Key Criteria for Intentionality

(2013) Anne Marijke Schel et al.   PLoS One

Multicomponent and Multimodal Lipsmacking in Crested Macaques (Macaca nigra)

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

Usage and comprehension of manual gestures in wild chimpanzees

(2012) Anna Ilona Roberts et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Use of gesture sequences in captive chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) play

(2012) Maureen S. McCarthy et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

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

Right-handedness predominance in 162 baboons (Papio anubis) for gestural communication: Consistency across time and groups.

(2011) Adrien Meguerditchian et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Chimpanzee Vocal Signaling Points to a Multimodal Origin of Human Language

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

Semantics of primate gestures: intentional meanings of orangutan gestures

(2010) Erica A. Cartmill et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

BIZARRE chimpanzees do not represent “the chimpanzee”

(2010) David A. Leavens et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Production and perception of situationally variable alarm calls in wild tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella nigritus)

(2010) Brandon C. Wheeler   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

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(2010) Joseph Henrich et al.   NATURE

What do animal signals mean?

(2009) Drew Rendall et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Multimodal communication by captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

(2009) David A. Leavens et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

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

(2009) Emilie Genty et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Captive chimpanzees use their right hand to communicate with each other: Implications for the origin of the cerebral substrate for language

(2009) Adrien Meguerditchian et al.   CORTEX

Gray matter asymmetries in chimpanzees as revealed by voxel-based morphometry

(2008) William D. Hopkins et al.   NEUROIMAGE