Recherches et engagements
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 […]
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 […]
Margiotoudi, K., Fagot, J., Meguerditchian, A. & Dautriche, I. (2024). Humans (Homo sapiens) but not baboons (Papio papio) demonstrate crossmodal pitch-luminance correspondence. American Journal of Primatology, 86(5). Humans spontaneously and consistently map information coming from different sensory modalities. Surprisingly, the phylogenetic origin of such cross-modal correspondences has been under-investigated. A notable exception is the […]
Fagot, J. & Tomonaga, M. (2016). Etude comparative des phénomènes de groupement perceptif chez le babouin, le chimpanzé et l’humain, Revue de primatologie. http://primatologie.revues.org/2643 ; DOI : 10.4000/primatologie Cet article présente le fruit d’une collaboration de longue durée entre des chercheurs du Primate Research Institute et l’Université d’Aix-Marseille. Nos recherches ont montré que la […]
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 […]
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, […]
Davidoff, J. Goldstein, J., Tharp, I, Wakui, E. & Fagot, J. (2012). Perceptual and categorical judgements of color similarity. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 24,871-892. Copyright restrictions prevent me from posting this article online, but you can request it from me below. Abstract – Consideration is given to the tasks that make judgements of […]
Barbet, I. & Fagot, J. (2011). Processing of contour closure by baboons. Journal of Experimental Psychology : Animal Behavior Processes, Vol. 37, 407–419 Abstract – This study investigated the Gestalt law of closure in baboons. Using a computer-controlled self-testing procedure, we trained baboons (Papio papio) to discriminate open versus closed shapes presented on a […]
Parron, C. & Fagot, J. (2010). First- and second-order configural sensitivity for greeble stimuli in baboons. Learning and Behaviour, 38, 374-81 Abstract – Previous studies on nonhuman primates have shown inconsistencies in their processing of first- and second-order relational properties of facial stimuli. Using greeble stimuli sharing configural properties with faces, this study assessed […]
Fagot, J., & Parron, C. (2010). Picture perception in birds : Perspective from primatologists. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 5 , 132-135 Abstract – In their target article, Weisman and Spetch (2010) question the validity of pictures to present real things to birds, mostly because pictures are primarily made for the human eye, and […]
Fagot, J. Thompson, R.K.R. & Parron, C. (2010). How to read a picture : Lessons from nonhuman primates. PNAS, 107, 519-520 This paper proposes a three-level scenario on how animals can process pictures.
Davidoff, J., & Fagot, J. (2010). Cross-species Assessment of the Linguistic Origins of Color Categories. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 5, 100-116 Abstract – This article considers the relation between language and categorical perception (CP) of colour. Two opposite theories are reviewed, the universalist position arguing that categories are universal with an essentially biological […]
Truppa, V., Spinozzi, G. & Fagot, J. (2009). Picture processing in Tufted Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella). Behavioural Processes, 82, 140-152. Abstract – Although pictures are frequently used in place of real objects to investigate various aspects of cognition in different non-human species, there is little evidence that animals treat pictorial stimuli as representations of […]
Fagot, J., Bonté, E. & Parron, C. (2009). Concept of uprightness in baboons : Assessment with pictures of realistic scenes. Animal Cognition, 12, 369-79. Copyright restrictions prevent me from posting this article online, but you can request it from me below. Abstract – How nonhuman primates process pictures of natural scenes or objects […]