Recherches et engagements
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. […]
Chunking and associative learning in non-human Primates. Laure Tosatto, Joel Fagot, Dezso Nemeth, and Arnaud Rey. Proceedings of the Evolang Conference, Bruxelles, 2020 This paper describes the learning of visuo-motor sequences in baboons. Baboons firstly learn small chunks that were later concatenated into larger chunks leading to increasingly compressed forms of information
Malassis, R., Dehaene, S. & Fagot, J. Baboons (Papio papio) Process a Context-Free but Not a Context-Sensitive Grammar. Sci Rep 10, 7381 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64244-53 Abstract – Language processing involves the ability to master supra-regular grammars, that go beyond the level of complexity of regular grammars. This ability has been hypothesized to be a uniquely […]
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.
Marie Montant, Raphaelle Malassis, Tiphaine Medam and Joel Fagot. Human language as a (unique) combination of inherited (and shared) domain-general cognitive abilities. Proceedings of the Evolang Conference, Bruxelles, 2020 Here we underline the role of domain-general functions on the emergence of language and speech.
Rational after all: changes in probability matching behaviour across time in humans and monkeys Carmen Saldana, Nicolas claidière, Joel Fagot, Kenny Smith. Proceedings of the Evolang Conference, Bruxelles,2020 Here we present a series of experiments designed to directly compare probability matching behaviour across time in adult humans and Guinea baboons
Malassis, R. & Fagot,. (2021). Extraction of structural regularities by baboons adjacent and nonadjacent repetition patterns differ in learnability. Journal of Comparative Psychology, Vol. 135, No. 1, 51– 63. Abstract – Several animal species can discriminate between different sequential patterns based on repetitions of items (eg, ABB vs. ABA), and generalize their performance to sequences […]
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 […]
Pope, S.M., Fagot, J., Meguerditchian, A., Watzek, J., Lew-Levy, S., Autrey, M.M., & Hopkins, W.D. (2019). Optional Switch cognitive flexibility in primates: Chimpanzees’ (Pan trolodytes) intermediate susceptibility to cognitive set. Journal of Comparative Psychology. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/com000 Abstract – Within human problem-solving, the propensity to use a familiar approach, rather than switch to […]
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 […]