Vanessa Wilson
Researcher in comparative social cognition and individual differences. Lecturer in Psychology, University of Hull. Primarily but not exclusively primates.
- Looking for women up to 24 months postpartum to participate in my student's survey on maternal wellbeing 🙂 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/hull/disse...
- Reposted by Vanessa WilsonFully funded PhD position with Yuri Kawaguchi at NTU (and Claire Witham at MRC) - join us! @yurikawaguchi.bsky.social
- Reposted by Vanessa WilsonPLEASE SHARE 🚨🚨 6-month RA position available at the Univ. of St Andrews to work with Sue Healy (@cogwild.bsky.social), Simone Meddle (@simonemeddle.bsky.social) and I on the behavioural neuroendocrinology of early reproduction in zebra finches. tinyurl.com/577cx9tj Deadline: 03/12/2025 ⬇️
- New study out lead by @sarahbrocard.bsky.social: we found that chimpanzees and humans share similar sensitivity to prosocial behaviour, suggesting that species differences in prosociality are not grounded in ability to recognise actions, but in how they act on them. @cogcompneuch.bsky.social
- 🚨 New paper out! Using a touchscreen task, we explored how humans and chimpanzees perceive social interactions by comparing their responses to prosocial, neutral, and antisocial interactions. Check out more on 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
- It's been great to be a part of such a large scale collaborative project. A big thanks to Basel Zoo for letting us work with their birds! @cogcompneuch.bsky.social
- 🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology: “A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.” Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @themanybirds.bsky.social
- Reposted by Vanessa WilsonOnly 3 days left to register for the Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning X-PPL 2025! The event will take place on the 1st and 2nd of September in Zurich. @isle-uzh.bsky.social www.isle.uzh.ch/en/events/x-...
- New paper out on hominid fast mapping, led by Dahliane Labertoniere, with Carla Pascual-Guardia, Katrin Skoruppa & @zuberbuehler.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/3kkzkjnk
- Using eye tracking, we find no evidence of fast mapping - the ability to rapidly associate a sound with an object, and a key component of language acquisition - in gorillas and orangutans, in contrast to humans.
- We discuss possible interpretations of these findings, from attentional difficulties with the task, to the possibility that fast mapping evolved in humans since the split from a common ape ancestor.
- Reposted by Vanessa WilsonOur new paper on animacy effects in Basque comprehension is out! It's been fun shepherding this paper for the last couple years. Congratulations to all the authors, but especially Aitor Ergurtzegi on publishing the last paper of his PhD! link.springer.com/article/10.3...
- Pregnant ladies, we need you! Please take ten minutes to fill out our short survey on maternal wellbeing.
- Reposted by Vanessa Wilson🚨Fully-funded PhD studentship on insect behaviour, cognition & muscles with me & @viveknityananda.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🐝🍀🎓🙌Application deadline April 30, start date in September. Drop me an email if you have questions! www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...
- Reposted by Vanessa Wilson🚨Come work with us in charming Tübingen and become a member of our growing Freigeist group! We offer a 2-year postdoc position on the communicative plasticity in wild and captive bonobos, fully funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je
- Reposted by Vanessa WilsonWe are hiring! We have an open position for a new lab coordinator in #primate #cognition and #behavior in the Cognitive Evolution Group at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Find out more at: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cognitive-ev...
- We're looking for equine stakeholders (horse owners, breeders, stable managers, vets etc) to fill in this short survey, to help us assess feasibility of a possible horse welfare tool. Please share! shorturl.at/PIG2s
- A French version is also available: forms.gle/REAPyosimSgn...
- Reposted by Vanessa Wilson📢 Join the 7th annual meeting of the Society for the Cognitive Science of Culture ( #SCSC ) on the 28-29th of April at the University of #Zurich! Registration and abstract submission are now open until the 28th of February. More information: culturalcogsci.org/AnnualMeetin...
- Re-sharing this: it would be great to get some more participants before data collection closes!
- A student of mine is studying maternal wellbeing in people with and without pets. We're recruiting women who are either pregnant or up to nine months postpartum. Please share! app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/hull/petow...
- Reposted by Vanessa Wilson🌟JOB ALERT🌟 We're hiring lecturers/senior lecturers @bristolbiosci.bsky.social Themes: ‘Evolution of life’, ‘Anthropogenic change’, ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ & ‘Sustainable food production’ That very much includes #AnimalBehaviour Deadline: 24th Jan 2025 bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
- A student of mine is studying maternal wellbeing in people with and without pets. We're recruiting women who are either pregnant or up to nine months postpartum. Please share! app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/hull/petow...
- Insightful and depressing statistics from Tatsuya Amano on the negative impact of being a non-native English speaker on publication output.
- Final plenary by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social concerning the language barriers in science. The hurdles for non-native English speakers are significant! #ASABWinter2024 Also, our congratulations to Tatsuya for winning the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social Equality and Diversity Champion award this week!
- Our work on ape event cognition and the evolution of language is featured in The Conversation theconversation.com/how-primate-...
- Reposted by Vanessa Wilson📰🐒According to a study by Vanessa Wilson @vd0ubleu.bsky.social and team, humans and apes alternate attention between the two subjects when observing someone interact with something. Learn more in the article from PLOS Biology, in DE, FR and EN on our website. evolvinglanguage.ch/great-apes-t...
- Reposted by Vanessa WilsonIn our new paper 📝 @plos.bsky.social PLOS Biology, we use #eyetracking to study how great apes understand who-does-what-to-whom — surprisingly similar to human adults! Thus suggests that the event cognition basis for language was present in our common ancestor. ➡️ journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- Hot off the press! Is there a pre-linguistic basis for event role attribution? In our new paper out in PLoS Biology, we take a comparative eye tracking approach to explore temporal gaze distribution to agents and patients in dyadic interactions tinyurl.com/mryk7kmb
- Reposted by Vanessa Wilson#PaperAlert: Is there a pre-linguistic basis for event role attribution? @vd0ubleu.bsky.social from the @nccrlanguage.bsky.social and colleagues from the @kweltentdeckende.bsky.social lab just published a study in PLOS Biology on this question: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
