Recherches et engagements
Gullstrand J, Claidière N, Fagot J (2024) Cognitive flexibility and sociality in Guinea baboons (Papio papio). PLoS ONE 19(12): e0308778 (open access) Cognitive flexibility is an executive function playing an important role in problem solving and the adaptation to contextual changes. While most studies investigated the contribution of cognitive flexibility to solve problems in […]
Formaux, A., Sperber, D., Fagot, J., & Claidière, N. (2023) Guinea baboons are strategic cooperators. Science Advances, 9(43), eadi5282. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adi528 Humans are strategic cooperators; we make decisions on the basis of costs and benefits to maintain high levels of cooperation, and this is thought to have played a key role in human evolution. In […]
Formaux, A., O’Sullivan, E., Fagot, J., & Claidière, N. (2022). Understanding imitation in Papio papio: the role of experience and the presence of a conspecific demonstrator. Cognitive Science, 46(3), e13117 Abstract – What factors affect imitation performance? Varying theories of imitation stress the role of experience, but few studies have explicitly tested its role […]
Formaux, A., Fagot, J. & Claidière, N. (2021). “The experimental emergence of convention in a non-human primate”. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 377: 20200310. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.03103 Abstract – Conventions form an essential part of human social and cultural behaviour and may also be important to other animal societies. Yet, despite the wealth of evidence that […]
Claidière, N., Gullstrand, J., Latouche, A. & Fagot, J. (2021). Using Automated Learning Devices for Monkeys (ALDM) to study social networks. Behaviour Research Methods, (2017) 49:24–34 doi:https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-015-0686-9 Abstract: Social network analysis has become a prominent tool to study animal social life, and there is an increasing need to develop new systems to collect social […]
Gullstrand, J., Claidière, N. & Fagot, J. Computerized assessment of dominance hierarchy in baboons (Papio papio). Behav Res 53, 1923–1934 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01539-z Abstract: Dominance hierarchies are an important aspect of Primate social life, and there is an increasing need to develop new systems to collect social information automatically. The main goal of this research was to […]
Gelardi, V., Godard, J., Paleressompoulle, D., Claidiere, N., & Barrat, A. (2020). Measuring social networks in primates: wearable sensors versus direct observations. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 476(2236), 20190737. Abstract – Network analysis represents a valuable and flexible framework to understand the structure of individual interactions at the population level in animal societies. […]
Simon Kirby, Vanessa Ferdinand, Kenny Smith, Joël Fagot and Nicolas Claidière. Cumulative cultural evolution of systematic structure and grammatical complexity in humans and baboons. Proceedings of the Evolang Conference, Bruxelles, 2020 This comparative paper shows a difference between humans and baboons in the way sets of structured behaviours culturally evolve.
Gelardi, V., Fagot, J., Barrat, A., & Claidière, N. (2019). Detecting social (in) stability in primates from their temporal co-presence network. Animal Behaviour, 157, 239-254. Abstract – The stability of social relationships is important to animals living in groups, and social network analysis provides a powerful tool to help characterize and understand their (in)stability […]
Saldana, C., Smith, K., Kirby, S., Fagot, J. & Claidière, N. (2019) Cumulative cultural evolution in a non-copying task in children and Guinea baboons. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 10001-1007 Abstract – The unique cumulative nature of human culture has often been explained by high-fidelity copying mechanisms found only […]
Saldana C, Fagot J, Kirby S, Smith K, Claidière N. 2019 High-fidelity copying is not necessarily the key to cumulative cultural evolution: a study in monkeys and children. Proceedings of the Royal Society; B. 286:20190729 Abstract – The unique cumulative nature of human culture has often been explained by high-fidelity copying mechanisms found only […]
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 […]
Claidière, N., Kodjo-kuma Amedon, G., André J.P., Kirby, S., Smith, K., Sperber, D., Fagot, J. (2017) Convergent transformation and selection in cultural evolution. Evolution and Human Behavior (2017), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.12.0073 Abstract – In biology, natural selection is the main explanation of adaptations and it is an attractive idea to think that an analogous force could […]
Kemp, C., Rey, A., Legou, T., Boë, L.J., Berthommier, F., Becker, Y., Fagot, J. (2017). The vocal repertoire of Guinea baboons (Papio papio). 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. 15-58)3 Abstract – In order to study the […]
Dumas, F., Fagot, J., Davanche, K. & Claidière, N. (2017). Other better vs. self better in baboons: an evolutionary approach of social comparison. Proceedings of the Royal Society: section B. Published 24 May 2017.DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0248. Abstract – Comparing oneself with others is an important characteristic of human social life, but the link between human […]