Recherches et engagements
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Ebel van Wijk, S.J., Molenaar, C. et al. (2026). EVApeCognition: An 18-Year Dataset of Great Ape Cognition. Sci Data (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07191-6 The study of great ape cognition offers insights into the evolutionary origins of human intelligence, but is hindered by small sample sizes and restricted access to data. To address this, we present the EVApeCognition […]
Meewis, T. Barezzi, I, Hababou-Bernson, H., Fagot, J., Claidière, N. & Dautriche, I (2026). No Evidence for Agent−Patient Role Attribution in Human Infants, Human Adults, and Guinea Baboons (Papio papio). DOI: 10.1111/cogs.7016. Abstract – Languages describe “who is doing what to whom” by distinguishing the event roles of agent (doer) and patient (undergoer), but it […]
Sablé-Meyer, M., Fagot, J. & Dehaene, S. (2026). Comparing Geometric Shape Representations in Humans and Baboons: A Language of Thought Perspective. Topics in Cognitive Science 00 (2026), 1–27, DOI: 10.1111/tops.70038 In various cultures, across history and at many different spatial scales, humans produce a rich variety of geometric shapes. Recent work has put forward a […]
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 […]
Reboul A, Claidière N, Dautriche I, Fagot J (2025) Testing semantic compositionality in baboons (Papio papio) through relearning and generalization. PLoS One 20(11): e0334726. This study investigates whether baboons are capable of semantic compositionality, specifically, whether they can apply compositional rules to new situations (generalization). In language, semantic compositionality is linked to productivity, the generalization […]
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 […]
Laura Ordonez Magro, Leonardo Pinto Arata, Joël Fagot, Jonathan Grainger, Arnaud Rey. The Lifetime of Sequential Memory Traces in the Absence of Language. Cognitive Science, 2025, 49 (8) Statistical learning allows us to implicitly create memory traces of recurring sequential patterns appearing in our environment. Here, we study the dynamics of how these sequential […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tosatto, L., Fagot, J., Nemeth, J. & Rey,A. (2024). Chunking as a Function of Sequence Length. Animal Cognition, 28(1):2 Abstract – Chunking mechanisms are central to several cognitive processes. During the acquisition of visuo-motor sequences, it is commonly reported that these sequences are segmented into chunks leading to more fluid, rapid, and accurate performances. […]
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 […]
Laure Tosatto, Joël Fagot et Arnaud Rey, « Sequence Learning and Chunk Stability in Guinea Baboons (Papio papio) », Revue de primatologie [En ligne], 14 | 2023, mis en ligne le 22 décembre 2023 Abstract – Les mécanismes de chunking, processus par lesquels plusieurs items sont regroupés pour former une unité fonctionnelle, sont centraux dans […]
Guillem Bonafos, Pierre Pudlo, Jean-Marc Freyermuth, Thierry Legou, Joël Fagot, et al. Detection and classification of vocal productions in large scale audio recordings. 2023. ffhal-04264454 We propose an automatic data processing pipeline to extract vocal productions from large-scale natural audio recordings and classify these vocal productions. The pipeline is based on a deep neural […]
Ordonez Magro, L., Fagot, J., Grainger, J. et al. On the role of interference in sequence learning in Guinea baboons (Papio papio). Learn Behav 51, 201–212 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-022-00537-13 Abstract – It is well established that decay and interference are the two main causes of forgetting. In the present study, we specifically focus on the impact of interference on memory […]