Recherches et engagements
Fagot, J. (2020). Penser dans langage : Approche expérimentale chez le babouin. Edition Odile Jacob Abstract – La recherche sur l’animal est une voie privilégiée pour aborder la question des relations entre pensée et langage. Le primate non-humain, qui n’a pas notre langage, présente une multitude de comportements dont la complexité laisse supposer l’existence […]
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 […]
Boë, L.J., Sawallis, T.R., Fagot, J., Badin, P., Barbier, G., Captier, G., Ménard, L., Heim, J.L., Schwartz, J.L. (2019). Which Way to the Dawn of Speech?: Reanalyzing Half a Century of Debates and Data in light of Speech Science. Science Advances, 5 (12), eaaw3916. Abstract – Recent articles on primate articulatory abilities are revolutionary […]
Fischer, J., Higham,J., Alberts, S., Barrett, L., Beehner, J.C., Bergman, T., Carter, A., Collins, A., Elton, S., Fagot, J. et al., (2019). The Natural History of Model Organisms: Insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies. Elife, doi = 10.7554/eLife.50989 Present the baboon species, their ecology and much more Abstract – […]
Chemla, Dautriche, Buccola & Fagot (2019). Constraints on the lexicons of human languages have cognitive roots present in baboons (Papio papio). PNAS. ww.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.19070231163 Abstract – Universals in language are hard to come by, yet one candidate is that words across the lexicons of the world’s languages are, by and large, connected: When a word […]
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 […]
Rey, M., Minier, L., Malassis, R., Bogeart, L. & Fagot, J. (2018). Regularity extraction across species: Associative learning mechanisms shared by humans and non-human primates. Topics in Cognitive Science. First published: 21 May 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tops.123433 Abstract – Extracting the regularities of our environment is a core cognitive ability in human and non‐human primates. Comparative […]
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 […]
Berthomier, F., Sawallis, T., Fagot, J., & Boë, L.J. (2017). What’s up with Wahoo? Exploring Baboon Vocalizations with Speech Science Techniques. in Boe, J.L., Fagot, J., Perrier, P. & Schwartz, J.L. (eds.). Origins of human language: continuities and splits with nonhuman primates. Peter Lang (101-136). Astract – The baboon repertoire includes around fifteen vocalizations. […]
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 […]
Janvier, M., Horaud, R., Girin, L., Berthommier, F., Boë, L. J., Kemp, C., … & Legou, T. (2013, December). Supervised classification of baboon vocalizations. In Workshop: Neural Information Processing Scaled for Bioacoustics: NIPS4B (pp. 10-pages) Abstract – We considered six classes of sounds emitted by Papio papio baboons, and report the results of supervised […]
Fagot, J., Malassis, R. & Medam, T. (2017). The processing of positional information in a two-item sequence limits the emergence of symmetry in baboons (Papio papio), but not in humans (Homo sapiens). Learning and Behaviour. 2017 Aug 4. doi: 10.3758/s13420-017-0290-13 Humans process relations as symmetrical, baboons process stimulus ordering, on the same task. Abstract – […]
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 […]