Emma Suvi McEwen
Post-doc @uniofstandrews.bsky.social studying primate cognition | Virtual environments, metacognition, cognitive control, cooperation | @cardiffuni grad | She/her 🏴🇫🇮🌈
- New #openaccess paper out now looking at social presence effects during cognitive testing with #chimpanzees, with @aurelfrick.bsky.social and Amanda Seed! This is an important finding for zoo-based projects where visitors can watch and learn about our research. Read more here 👇
- Our paper (with @emmasmcewen.bsky.social and Amanda Seed) on the effects of visitor presence on chimpanzees’ working memory is out. This research was supported by a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowship and could not have been done without the help of @edinburghzoo.bsky.social staff!
- Reposted by Emma Suvi McEwen🎊Fully funded PhD position on cooperative sustainability🌳 Are you curious about 🧒 developmental, 🌍 cross-cultural 🦧 species comparative research on cooperative sustainability? All info here or dm me with questions! career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job... Please share! 🙏
- New paper alert 👇 We present a new two-action sequential coordination task designed to investigate co-representation non-human primates. In collaboration with @drelizabethwarren.bsky.social and Josep Call and out now, fully #openaccess in PLoS One! (1/4) journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
- Chimpanzees reliably produced communication behaviours in the event of a breakdown in coordination and differed qualitatively in their operation of our see-saw apparatus depending on whether they learned it in a social or non-social setting. (2/4)
- Reposted by Emma Suvi McEwen🚨RT! The Social & Cognitive Origins group at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/
- Very happy to announce that our latest paper from our virtual environment work with chimpanzees, looking at efficient turning behaviour, is out now, fully #openaccess! More details in this thread from @realprimatthias.bsky.social about this study led by Sarah Koopman 👇
- 🦍🖥️New paper on great apes in virtual environments: Chimpanzee Turning Behavior During Spatial Navigation in Virtual Environments (animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?id=1390). Led by Sarah Koopman, we went back to basics and asked a simple question about object permanence and optical flow.
- Reposted by Emma Suvi McEwenDo you like to dip your fries in ketchup before eating it? Our cockatoos do too! In a new study in Current Biology, we showed our cockatoos innovated a new way to flavour their food: they dunk noodles in blueberry soy yoghurt. Read about it and watch our video abstract: www.cell.com/current-biol...
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- Reposted by Emma Suvi McEwenYou can now apply for our 3 year postdoc looking at the role of culture and group size in social coordination and collaboration in the UK, Uganda and Republic of Korea! Any questions please don’t hesitate to drop me a dm or email (sophie.milward@port.ac.uk) mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web...
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- 🌳 I’m excited to announce that we have published our paper outlining our protocol for training primates to forage in virtual environments! Out now #openaccess www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Emma Suvi McEwen🐵📢 I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work for 6-months on our NSF-BBSRC project investigating the form and function of primate natal coats. Why are some🐒 babies🍊?! www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan... Please pass on to potential applicants and get in touch if considering applying.
- Reposted by Emma Suvi McEwen🚨 Exciting news! The ManyPrimates3 project is now open for data collection! In MP3, we will assess the ability of primates to make inferences by exclusion. Join us to explore primate cognition and promote large scale collaboration!
- Very pleased to announce that the first study from my PhD thesis is out now 🥳 with thanks to @ConstableMerryn and all my other wonderful co-authors! Chimpanzees exhibit a behavioural signature of human social coordination: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Across a series of experiments in Leipzig Zoo and @rzss Edinburgh Zoo, in our #OpenAccess article out now in @CognitionJourn, #chimpanzees passed a tool to an experimenter in a way that accommodated the experimenter’s action constraints (2/5)
- Great fun presenting and demo-ing some of our capuchin monkey virtual environment work with @AndreeaMiscov (and @AmandaMSeed who was there in spirit) at BCCCD24 😁🐵💻🌳👾 #BCCCD @CogDevCeu
