Age effects on transfer index performance and executive control in baboons (Papio papio)

Bonté E, Kemp C, Fagot J. Age effects on transfer index performance and executive control in baboons (Papio papio). Front Psychol. 2014 Mar 4;5:188.    Abstract – Reversal performance in the transfer index (TI) task is known to improve from prosimians to apes, suggesting that this task is a marker of cognitive evolution within the […]

Baboons’ response speed is biased by their moods

Marzouki, YB., Gullstrrand, J., Goujon, A. & Fagot, J. (2014). Baboons’ response speed is biased by their moods. PLOS one. July 25, 2014   Abstract – The affect-as-information hypothesis (e.g., Schwarz & Clore, 2003), predicts that the positive or negative valence of our mood differentially affects our processing of the details of the environment. However, […]

Cognitive Control under Social Influence in Baboons

Huguet, P., Barbet, I., Belletier, C., Monteil, J.M. & Fagot, J. (2014). Cognitive Control under Social Influence in Baboons. JEP:General. Vol 143(6), Dec 2014, 2067-2073   Abstract – From cockroaches to human beings, the presence of other members of the same species typically facilitates dominant (habitual/well-learned) responses regardless of their contextual relevance. This social facilitation […]

Cultural evolution of systematically structured behavior in a non-human primate

Claidière, N., Kirby, S., Smith, K. & Fagot, J. (2014). Cultural evolution of systematically structured behavior in a non-human primate. Proceeding of the Royal Academy of Science : B. December 2014 vol. 281 no. 1797 20141541   Abstract – Culture pervades human life and is at the origin of the success of our species. A […]

Analogical reasoning in baboons (Papio Papio) : Flexible encoding of the source relation depending on the target relation.

Fagot, J. & Maugard, A. (2013). Analogical reasoning in baboons (Papio Papio) : Flexible encoding of the source relation depending on the target relation. Learning & Behavior, 41, 229-37. Psychonomic Society 2013   Abstract – Analogical reasoning is a cornerstone of human cognition, but the extent and limits of analogical reasoning in animals remains unclear. […]

Contribution of Working Memory Processes to Relational Matching-to-Sample Performance in Baboons (Papio papio).

Maugard, A., Marzouki, Y. & Fagot, J. (2013). Contribution of Working Memory Processes to Relational Matching-to-Sample Performance in Baboons (Papio papio). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 127, 4, 370   Abstract – Recent studies of monkeys and apes have shown that these animals can solve relational-matching-to-sample (RMTS) problems, suggesting basic abilities for analogical reasoning. However, doubts […]

What Can We Learn From Humans About Orthographic Processing in Monkeys ? A Reply to Frost and Keuleers (2013).

Ziegler, JC, Dufau, S, Montant, M. Hannagan, T., Fagot, J. & Grainger, J. (2013). What Can We Learn From Humans About Orthographic Processing in Monkeys ? A Reply to Frost and Keuleers (2013). Psychological Science, 24, 1870-1871.3 We drew four conclusions from this paper. First, we inferred that monkeys use a truly orthographic rather than […]

Transposed Letter Effects Reveal Orthographic Processing in Baboons.

Ziegler, JC, Hannagan, T., Dufau, S., Montant, M., Fagot, J. & Grainger, J. (2013). Transposed Letter Effects Reveal Orthographic Processing in Baboons. Psychological Science, 24, 1609-1611   Copyright restrictions prevent me from posting this article online, but you can request it from me below.   Reading and writing are recent cultural inventions in humans. Although […]

Baboons, like humans, solve an analogical matching task by categorical abstraction of relations

Flemming, T., Thompson, R.K., & Fagot, J. (2013). Baboons, like humans, solve an analogical matching task by categorical abstraction of relations. Animal Cognition, 16, 519-524   Abstract – Reasoning by analogy is one of the most complex and highly adaptive cognitive processes in abstract thinking. For humans, analogical reasoning entails the judgment and conceptual mapping […]

Learning of Spatial Statistics in Nonhuman Primates : Contextual Cueing in Baboons (Papio papio).

Goujon, A. & Fagot, J. (2013). Learning of Spatial Statistics in Nonhuman Primates : Contextual Cueing in Baboons (Papio papio). Behavioural Brain Research, 247, 101-109   Copyright restrictions prevent me from posting this article online, but you can request it from me below.   Abstract – A growing number of theories of cognition suggest that […]

Centre-Embedded structures are a by-product of associative learning and working memory constraints : Evidence from baboons (Papio papio)

Rey, A., Perruchet, P. & Fagot, J. (2012). Centre-Embedded structures are a by-product of associative learning and working memory constraints : Evidence from baboons (Papio papio). Cognition, 123, 180-184   Copyright restrictions prevent me from posting this article online, but you can request it from me below.   Abstract – Influential theories have claimed that […]

Age-dependant behavioral strategies in a visual search task in baboons (Papio papio) and their relation to inhibitory control. 

Fagot, J., Bonté, E., & Hopkins, W. D. (2013). Age-dependant behavioral strategies in a visual search task in baboons (Papio papio) and their relation to inhibitory control. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 127(2), 194–203   Abstract – A computerized visual search task was presented to 18 guinea baboons (Papio papio) ranging from 2.7 to 14.3 years of […]

Effects of freely accessible computerized test systems on the spontaneous behaviors and stress level of Guinea baboons (Papio papio)

Fagot, J., Gullstrand, J., Kemp, C., Defilles, C. & Mekaouche, M. (2013). Effects of freely accessible computerized test systems on the spontaneous behaviors and stress level of Guinea baboons (Papio papio). American Journal of Primatology. 76(1):56-643 This paper shows that a free access to computerized tasks reduces stress level Abstract – Fagot and Paleressompoulle [Fagot and […]

L’orthographe à la portée des babouins

Montant, M., Grainger, J., Dufau, S., Ziegler, J. C., & Fagot, J. (2012). L’orthographe à la portée des babouins [Orthographic processing in baboons]. Med Sci (Paris), 28(10), 821-823.   Ce travail montre que les babouins sont capables d’un traitement orthographique, ils peuvent catégoriser des mots de quatre lettres en mettant d’un coté les mots qui […]

Response to Comment on “Orthographic Processing in Baboons (Papio papio)

Grainger, J., Dufau, S, Montant, M, Ziegler, J.C & Fagot, J. (2012). Response to Comment on “Orthographic Processing in Baboons (Papio papio). Science ; 336, 245-248.  Abstract – Bains pointed out that some of our nonwords were in fact real words and that an algorithm using only information about single letters and their positions achieves […]

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