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Agent preference in chasing interactions in guinea baboons ( papio papio ): uncovering the roots of subject–object order in language

Floor Meewis, Joël Fagot, Nicolas Claidière, Isabelle Dautriche. Agent Preference in Chasing Interactions in Guinea Baboons ( Papio papio ): Uncovering the Roots of Subject–Object Order in Language. Psychological Science, 2025, 36 (6), pp.465-477. ff10.1177/09567976251344581ff. ffhal-05169637f Languages tend to describe “who is doing what to whom” by placing subjects before objects. This may reflect […]

Can non-human primates extract the linear trend from a noisy scatterplot

Ciccione L, Dighiero-Brecht T, Claidière N, Fagot J, Dehaene S. Can non-human primates extract the linear trend from a noisy scatterplot? iScience. 2024 Dec 20;28(1):111661. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.111661. PMID: 39868034; PMCID: PMC11761879. (open access) Recent studies showed that humans, regardless of age, education, and culture, can extract the linear trend of a noisy scatterplot. Although […]

A comparative study of causal perception in guinea baboons (papio papio) and human adults

Floor Meewis, Iris Barezzi, Joël Fagot, Nicolas Claidière, Isabelle Dautriche. A comparative study of causal perception in Guinea baboons (Papio papio) and human adults. PLoS ONE, 2024, 19 (12), pp.e0311294. ff10.1371/journal.pone.0311294ff. ffhal-04847917f In humans, simple 2D visual displays of launching events (“Michottean launches”) can evoke the impression of causality. Direct launching events are regarded […]

Evidence for compositionality in baboons (papio papio) through the test case of negation

Dautriche, I., Buccola, B., Berthet, M. et al. Evidence for compositionality in baboons (Papio papio) through the test case of negation. Sci Rep 12, 19181 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-21143-1 Abstract – Can non-human animals combine abstract representations much like humans do with language? In particular, can they entertain a compositional representation such as ‘not blue’? Across […]

Categorization of vocal and nonvocal stimuli in guinea baboons

Fatima-ezzahra Ennaji, Pascal Belin, Joël Fagot. Categorization of vocal and nonvocal stimuli in Guinea baboons (Papio papio). American Journal of Primatology, 2022, ff10.1002/ajp.23387ff. ffhal03661496f Abstract – Categorization of vocal sounds apart from other sounds is one of the key abilities in human voice processing, but whether this ability is present in other animals, particularly […]

Analogical reasoning

Fagot, J.(2017). Analogical reasoning. In J. Vonk, T.K. Shackelford (eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1076-13 Abstract – Comparative studies with nonhuman animals have questioned whether language is a prerequisite for complex forms of analogical reasoning. In this chapter, we will firstly document the fact that nonhuman animals have the capacity to process […]

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)

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 – […]

Orthographic processing in animals : implications for comparative psychologists

Fagot, Joël (2017). Orthographic processing in animals : implications for comparative psychologists. Learning and Behavior, 45(3), 209-210 Abstract – Two recent studies have shown that pigeons and baboons can discriminate written English words from nonwords, and these findings were interpreted as demonstrating that orthographic processing is possible in absence of linguistic knowledge. Here, I […]

Categorization does not promote symmetry in guinea baboons

Medam, T., Montant, M., Marzouki, Y. & Fagot, J. (2016). Categorization does not promote symmetry in Guinea baboons (Papio papio). Animal Cognition, 19(5):987-983 Copyright restrictions prevent me from posting this article online, but you can request it from me below. Abstract – Humans have the capacity to use stimuli interchangeably by forming equivalence […]

Relational thinking in animals and humans: from percepts to concepts

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 […]

Rôle du contrôle exécutif dans le raisonnement par analogie chez l’enfant et le primate non humain

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 […]

Deep learning of orthographic representations in baboons

Hannagan T, Ziegler JC, Dufau S, Fagot J, Grainger J (2014) Deep Learning of Orthographic Representations in Baboons. PLoS ONE 9(1) : e84843. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0084843. Orthographic processing in baboon is re-analyzed with deep convolutional networks Abstract – What is the origin of our ability to learn orthographic knowledge? We use deep convolutional networks to emulate the […]

Object-specific and relational learning in pigeons

Castro, L., Wasserman, E, Fagot, J. Maugard, A. (2014). Object-specific and relational learning in pigeons. Animal Cognition. 10.1007/s10071-014-0790-83 Abstract – Relational stimulus processing requires an organism to appreciate the interrelations between or among two or more stimuli (e.g., same or different, less than or greater than). In the current study, we explored the role […]

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 […]