Bas van Boekholt
- Reposted by Bas van Boekholt🚨New animal linguistics paper🚨 Together with @geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social and @maelmleroux.bsky.social, we tried to finally answer this question: Do titi monkeys have complex syntactic skills? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Amazing work of my colleague Jolinde for wrangling all the data and making some stunning figures in the process! + interesting results as well!
- My first PhD paper is published! 🎉 We compared how wild bonobo and chimpanzee infants (0-5.5y) become independent from their mothers. Here is the open-access link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧵(1/5)
- New Paper out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B! 🎉 Sequence organization of mother–infant interactions in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the wild. See the thread below for a quick explanation, and check out the paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- In humans, “sequence organisation” across interactions is a core feature of communication. But did this capacity evolve prior to human language, and if so, how do other animals structure their interactions?
- To find out, we analysed 361 interactions between mother and infant Ngogo chimpanzees. We recorded 3647 signals and actions across four contexts (food sharing, grooming, nursing, and joint travel) and analysed two fundamental aspects of sequence organisation: adjacency pairs, and flexibility.
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