Recherches et engagements
Chartier T, Fagot J & Rey A. (2025) Association: one term, five concepts. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 181 (2026) 106525 ‘Association’ is certainly one of the most prevalent terms in the study of mind, brain and behavior. It applies to actions, stimuli, neurons, brain areas, ideas, words, etc. However, we argue that this term carries […]
Chartier, T. & Fagot, J.(2022,). Associative symmetry: a divide between humans and nonhumans? Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.01.009 Abstract – Anthropocentrism can bias scientific conclusions. As a case study, we challenge the 40-year-old associative symmetry dogma, supposed to cognitively set apart humans from other species. Out of 37 human studies surveyed, only three truly demonstrate […]
Cauchoix et al. (2018). The repeatability of cognitive performance: a meta-analysis. Philosophical transactions B. Published 13 August 2018.DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0281 Abstract – Behavioural and cognitive processes play important roles in mediating an individual’s interactions with its environment. Yet, while there is a vast literature on repeatable individual differences in behaviour, relatively little is known about […]
Fagot, J., Boë, L.J., Berthomier, F., Claidière, N., Malassis, R., Meguerditchian, A., Rey, A. & Montant, M. (2018). The baboon: a model for the study of language evolution. Journal of Human Evolution. 126, 39-50 Abstract – Comparative research on the origins of human language often focuses on a limited number of language-related cognitive functions […]
Fagot, J., Malassis, R., Medam, T., Montant, M. (2017). Comparing human and nonhuman animals performance on domain-general functions: Towards a multiple bottleneck scenario of language evolution? in Boe, L.J., Fagot, J. Perrier, P., & Schwartz, J.L. (eds.). Origins of human language: continuities and splits with nonhuman primates. Peter Lang (pp. 329-365) Abstract – How […]
Wasserman, E.A., Castro, L. & Fagot, J. (2015). Relational Thinking in Animals and Humans: From Percepts to Concepts” : In APA Handbook of Comparative Psychology, Volume 2, Perception, Learning and Cognition. Call et al. (Eds, pp 359-384). Washington DC, USA, American Psychological Association. Abstract – “The power of abstraction has its germ in sense-experience […]
Minier, L., Blaye, A., Maugard, A., Fagot, J., Glady, Y., Thibaut, J.P., & (2014). Rôle du contrôle exécutif dans le raisonnement par analogie chez l’enfant et le primate non humain. Psychologie Française, 59(1), 71–873 Abstract – Analogical reasoning (AR) is a cornerstone of human cognition. Two main theories have historically been proposed to account […]
Fagot, J., Barbet, I & Parron, C. (2012). Grouping and Segmentation in Human and Nonhuman Primates. In Wasserman, E. & Zental, T. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition (2nd edn). Page 12-24. This chapter focuses on the processing of visual information by primates. It presents two main lines of research to illustrate similarities […]
Fagot, J. & Parron, C. (2012). Visual cognition in nonhuman primates. In Lazaverra, O, Shimizu, T. & Wasserman, E.A. (Eds.). How animals see the world. Oxford Psychology Press. pp. 371-389. Abstract – This chapter discusses studies that compared grouping mechanisms in two nonhuman primate species (chimpanzees and baboons) and in humans. A local advantage, […]
Fagot, J. & Barbet, I. (2006). Grouping and segmentation of visual objects in baboons (Papio Papio) and humans (Homo sapiens). In Wasserman, E. & Zentall, T.R (Eds.) Comparative Cognition : Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence. New York : Oxford University Press, 15-28. Copyright restrictions prevent me from posting this article online, but you can […]
Zatlev and the Sedsu Projet (2006). Stages in the Evolution and Development of Sign Use (SEDSU) : An Interdisciplinary Project within the EUropean union’S 6th Framework Programme. In The Evolution of Language : Proceedings of the 6th international conference (Cangelosi, A., Smith, A.D. & Smith, K. eds) London : World Scientific Press Copyright restrictions […]
Fagot, J., Wasserman, E. & Young, M. (2004). Catégorisation d’objets visuels et concepts relationnels chez l’animal. In Kreutzer, M. & Vauclair, J. (Ed.s) Ethologie cognitive (pp 117-136). Abstract – Cette revue de question présente les méthodes et critères utilisés pour inférer l’existence de concepts relationnels chez l’animal, et l’illustre par une série de travaux […]
Fagot, J., Martin-Malivel, J. & Dépy, D. (1999). What are the evidence for equivalence between objects and pictures in birds and nonhuman primates ? Current Psychology of Cognition, 5-6, 923-950 Copyright restrictions prevent me from posting this article online, but you can request it from me below. Abstract –This paper examines the way […]
Copyright restrictions prevent me from posting this article online, but you can request it from me below. Vauclair, J. & Fagot, J. (1993) Can a saussurian ape be endowed with episodic memory only. Commentary to M. Donald. Precis of origins of modern mind : three stages in the evolution of culture and cognition. The […]
Fagot, J. & Vauclair, J. (1991). Manual laterality in nonhuman primates : A distinction between handedness and manual specialization. Psychological Bulletin, 109, 76-89 Copyright restrictions prevent me from posting this article online, but you can request it from me below. Abstract – This article examines individual and group manual lateralization in nonhuman primates […]