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2025

Egurtzegi, A., Sauppe, S., Isasi-Isasmendi, A., de la Hidalga, G. M., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Schlesewsky, M., Laka, I., Meyer, M., Bickel, B., & Andrews, C. (2025). The effect of animacy on the agent preference: Self-paced reading evidence from Basque. Memory & Cognition. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-025-01698-w
Frei, N., Willinger, D., Haller, P., Fraga-González, G., Pamplona, G. S. P., Haugg, A., Lutz, C. G., Coraj, S., Hefti, E., & Brem, S. (2025). Towards a mechanistic understanding of reading difficulties: Deviant audiovisual learning dynamics and network connectivity in children with poor reading skills. The Journal of Neuroscience, e1119242025. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1119-24.2025
Brocard, S., Voinov, P. V., Bickel, B., & Zuberbühler, K. (2025). Spontaneous Encoding of Event Roles in Hominids. Open Mind, 9, 559–575. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00202
Hervais-Adelman, A., & Townsend, S. W. (2025). How did vocal communication come to dominate human language? A view from the womb. PLOS Biology, 23, e3003141. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003141
Sarkar, E., Wierucka, K., Bosshard, A. B., Burkart, J., & Magimai Doss, M. (2025). On feature representations for marmoset vocal communication analysis. Bioacoustics, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/09524622.2025.2487688
Heesen, R., Bangerter, A., Zuberbühler, K., Iglesias, K., Rossano, F., Guéry, J.-P., & Genty, E. (2025). Potential evidence of reengagement attempts following interruptions of a triadic social game in bonobos and chimpanzees. PLOS ONE, 20, e0292984. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292984
Isasi-Isasmendi, A., Andrews, C., Huber, E., Meyer, M., Bickel, B., & Sauppe, S. (2025). Neural correlates of processing case in adults and children. Brain and Language, 265, 105548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105548
Herce, B., & Bickel, B. (2025). Paradigmatic complexity metrics as signals of phylogenetic relatedness: A proof of concept in Romance and Pamean diachrony. Diachronica, 42, 1–46. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.23004.her
Tilston, O., Holler, J., & Bangerter, A. (2025). Opening Social Interactions: The Coordination of Approach, Gaze, Speech, and Handshakes During Greetings. Cognitive Science, 49. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70049
Oderbolz, C., Poeppel, D., & Meyer, M. (2025). Asymmetric Sampling in Time: Evidence and perspectives. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 171, 106082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106082
Craevschi, A., Babinski, S., & Cathcart, C. (2025). Semantics drives analogical change in Germanic strong verb paradigms: a phylogenetic study. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2502.17670
Bhadra, K., Giraud, A.-L., & Marchesotti, S. (2025). Learning to operate an imagined speech Brain-Computer Interface involves the spatial and frequency tuning of neural activity. Communications Biology, 8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07464-7
Wang, X., Bouton, S., Kojovic, N., Giraud, A.-L., & Schaer, M. (2025). Atypical audio-visual neural synchrony and speech processing in early autism. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s11689-025-09593-w
Burkart, J. M., Cerrito, P., Natalucci, G., & van Schaik, C. P. (2025). Cooperative breeding as a likely early catalyst of human evolution. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/z6n7e_v1
Burkart, J. M., & Southgate, V. (2025). An evolutionary perspective on altercentrism. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/h5qn7_v1
Sehner, S., Willems, E. P., Baumeyer, A., Davis, L., van Schaik, C. P., & Burkart, J. M. (2025). Sensitivity to immature skill deficits. Food sharing experiments in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri boliviensis) and common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). Journal of Comparative Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000399
Haugg, A., Frei, N., Lutz, C., Di Pietro, S. V., Karipidis, I. I., & Brem, S. (2025). The structural covariance of reading-related brain regions in adults and children with typical or poor reading skills. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 72, 101522. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101522
Malbois, E. (2025). Beyond Value-Based Design: For a More Comprehensive and Supportive System of Ethical Robot Development. In Social Robots with AI: Prospects, Risks, and Responsible Methods. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/FAIA241514
Mohammed, A., Rampinini, A., Balboni, I., Berthele, R., Golestani, N., & Kepinska, O. (2025). Multilingualism and Working Memory: The Role of Formal vs. Informal Language Learning. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/u7s43_v1
Wegdell, F. L. (2025). Wild Bonobo Vocal Communication: Ontogeny and the Role of Vocal Input. https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/270796
Alexander, C. (2025). What is 4E cognitive science? Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-025-10055-w
Zai, A. T., Lorenz, C., Srikantharajah, S., Giret, N., & Hahnloser, R. H. R. (2025). Estimating the motor exploration in reinforcement learning. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.21.634056
Wegdell, F., Schamberg, I., Berthet, M., Rothacher, Y., Dellwo, V., Surbeck, M., & Townsend, S. (2025). An updated vocal repertoire of wild adult bonobos (Pan paniscus). https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.23.634282
Kepinska, O., Dalboni da Rocha, J., Tuerk, C., Hervais-Adelman, A., Bouhali, F., Green, D. W., Price, C. J., & Golestani, N. (2025). Auditory cortex anatomy reflects multilingual phonological experience. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.90269.2
Franco, J., Glize, B., & Laganaro, M. (2025). Impact of immersive virtual reality compared to a digital static approach in word (re)learning in post-stroke aphasia and neurotypical adults: Lexical-semantic effects? Neuropsychologia, 208, 109069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109069
Sarkar, E., & -Doss, M. Magimai. (2025). Comparing Self-Supervised Learning Models Pre-Trained on Human Speech and Animal Vocalizations for Bioacoustics Processing. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2501.05987
Graff, A., Chousou-Polydouri, N., Inman, D., Skirgård, H., Lischka, M., Zakharko, T., Barbieri, C., & Bickel, B. (2025). Curating global datasets of structural linguistic features for independence. Scientific Data, 12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04319-4
Driscoll, I., Briefer, E. F., Ganswindt, A., & Manser, M. B. (2025). Effect of exogenous manipulation of glucocorticoid concentrations on meerkat heart rate, behaviour and vocal production. Hormones and Behavior, 168, 105676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2025.105676
Gruber, T., Briefer, E. F., Grütter, A., Xanthos, A., Grandjean, D., Manser, M. B., & Frühholz, S. (2025). Emotion in Nonverbal Communication: Comparing Animal and Human Vocalizations and Human Text Messages. Emotion Review, 17, 30–45. https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739241303505
Fraga-González, G., Haller, P., Willinger, D., Gehrig, V., Frei, N., & Brem, S. (2025). Functional brain activations correlated with association strength and prediction error during novel symbol–speech sound learning. Imaging Neuroscience, 3. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00439
Rampinini, A., Balboni, I., Kepinska, O., Berthele, R., & Golestani, N. (2025). NEBULA101: an open dataset for the study of language aptitude in behaviour, brain structure and function. Scientific Data, 12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04357-y
Balboni, I., Rampinini, A., Kepinska, O., Berthele, R., & Golestani, N. (2025). Brain activation for language and its relationship to cognitive and linguistic measures. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.31.630909
Schick, J., & Stoll, S. (2025). Children Learn Best From Their Peers: The Crucial Role of Input From Other Children in Language Development. Open Mind, 9, 665–676. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00198
Soldati, A., Slocombe, K., Call, J., Zuberbühler, K., Willems, E. P., & Fedurek, P. (2025). Do chimpanzees produce context-specific vocal structures in group-specific ways? Animal Behaviour, 223, 123185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123185
Soldati, A., Fedurek, P., Dezecache, G., Muhumuza, G., Hobaiter, C., Zuberbühler, K., & Call, J. (2025). Social and individual factors mediate chimpanzee vocal ontogeny. Scientific Reports, 15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-93207-x
Eleuteri, V., van der Werff, J., Wilhelm, W., Soldati, A., Crockford, C., Desai, N., Fedurek, P., Fitzgerald, M., Graham, K. E., Koops, K., Pruetz, J., Samuni, L., Slocombe, K., Stoeger, A., Wilson, M. L., Wittig, R. M., Zuberbühler, K., Camara, H. D., Mamy, G., … Hobaiter, C. (2025). Chimpanzee drumming shows rhythmicity and subspecies variation. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.019

2024

Balboni, I., Kepinska, O., Berthele, R., & Golestani, N. (2024). Dyslexia in Bilinguals: a PRISMA Systematic Review. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jzpx5_v2
Morozova, N., You, G., Stoll, S., & Bangerter, A. (2024). Measuring acoustic dissimilarity of hierarchical markers in task-oriented dialogue with MFCC-based dynamic time warping. Interspeech_2024, 4763–4767. https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2024-2204
Gao, Y. (2024). Mining Arguments in Scientific Documents. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/680909
Cathcart, C., & Jäger, G. (2024). Exploring the evolutionary dynamics of sound symbolism. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46, 1076--1083. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-270352
McClung, J., Triki, Z., Pompeyo, M. L., Fassier, R., Emery, Y., Bangerter, A., … Bshary, R. (2024). Oxytocin and shared intentionality are positively associated with cooperation in children. Hormones and Behavior, 166, 105651. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2024.105651
Bangerter, A., Knutsen, D., Germanier, E., Col, G., & Brosy, J. (2024). Okay as a marker for coordinating transitions in joint actions: Effects of participant role and age in Swiss German and Swiss French interviews. Journal of Pragmatics, 230, 166–186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2024.07.006
Ramoser, C., Fischer, A., Caspers, J., Schiller, N. O., Golestani, N., & Kepinska, O. (2024). Language aptitude is related to the anatomy of the transverse temporal gyri. Brain Structure and Function, 230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-024-02883-4
Padilla-Iglesias, C., Blanco-Portillo, J., Pricop, B., Ioannidis, A. G., Bickel, B., Manica, A., … Migliano, A. B. (2024). Deep history of cultural and linguistic evolution among Central African hunter-gatherers. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 1263–1275. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01891-y
Godard, A. M., Burkart, J. M., & Brügger, R. K. (2024). The ontogeny of play in a highly cooperative monkey, the common marmoset. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.28.595935
Kepinska, O., Bouhali, F., Degano, G., Berthele, R., Tanaka, H., Hoeft, F., & Golestani, N. (2024). Intergenerational transmission of the structure of the auditory cortex and reading skills. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.11.610780
Morozova, N., You, G., Stoll, S., & Bangerter, A. (2024). Measuring acoustic dissimilarity of hierarchical markers in task-oriented dialogue with MFCC-based dynamic time warping. Interspeech_2024, 4763–4767. https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2024-2204
Zaghir, J., Naguib, M., Bjelogrlic, M., Névéol, A., Tannier, X., & Lovis, C. (2024). Prompt Engineering Paradigms for Medical Applications: Scoping Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 26, e60501. https://doi.org/10.2196/60501
Wierucka, K., Murphy, D., Watson, S., Falk, N., Fichtel, C., León, J., … Burkart, J. (2024). Same data, different results? Evaluating machine learning approaches for individual identification in animal vocalisations. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.14.589403
Piette, T., Cathcart, C., Barbieri, C., Ming, K. M., Grandjean, D., Bickel, B., … Giraud, A.-L. (2024). Animal acoustic communication maintains a universal optimum rhythm. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.07.616955
Kepinska, O., Bouhali, F., Degano, G., Berthele, R., Tanaka, H., Hoeft, F., & Golestani, N. (2024). Intergenerational transmission of the structure of the auditory cortex and reading skills. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.11.610780
Rooein, D., Rottger, P., Shaitarova, A., & Hovy, D. (2024). Beyond Flesch-Kincaid: Prompt-based Metrics Improve Difficulty Classification of Educational Texts. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2405.09482
Oderbolz, C., Stark, E., Sauppe, S., & Meyer, M. (2024). Concurrent processing of the prosodic hierarchy is supported by cortical entrainment and phase-amplitude coupling. Cerebral Cortex, 34. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae479
Meshinska, K., Burkart, J. M., Bell, M. B., & Wierucka, K. (2024). Echoes of self: Understanding acoustic structure and informational content in common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) phee sequences. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.14.589400
Engesser, S., Ridley, A. R., Watson, S. K., Kita, S., & Townsend, S. W. (2024). Seeds of language-like generativity in bird call combinations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.0922
Adriaense, J. E. C., Ringen, E. J., Ohashi, A., & Burkart, J. M. (2024). Common marmosets use body posture as multi-functional signal to solicit, maintain, and modify social play. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.14.607991
Sarkar, E., & Doss, M. M. (2024). On the Utility of Speech and Audio Foundation Models for Marmoset Call Analysis. Presented at the 4th International Workshop on Vocal Interactivity In-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots (VIHAR2024). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13935495
Ramoser, C., Fischer, A., Caspers, J., Schiller, N. O., Golestani, N., & Kepinska, O. (2024). Language aptitude is related to the anatomy of the transverse temporal gyri. Brain Structure and Function, 230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-024-02883-4
Mine, J. G., Wilke, C., Zulberti, C., Behjati, M., Bosshard, A. B., Stoll, S., … Townsend, S. W. (2024). Vocal-visual combinations in wild chimpanzees. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 78. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-024-03523-x
Mach, M., Amico, E., Liégeois, R., Preti, M. G., Griffa, A., Van De Ville, D., & Pedersen, M. (2024). Connectome embedding in multidimensional graph spaces. Network Neuroscience, 8, 1129–1148. https://doi.org/10.1162/netn_a_00393
Huber, E., Sauppe, S., Isasi-Isasmendi, A., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Merlo, P., & Bickel, B. (2024). Surprisal From Language Models Can Predict ERPs in Processing Predicate-Argument Structures Only if Enriched by an Agent Preference Principle. Neurobiology of Language, 5, 167–200. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00121
Cerrito, P., Gascon, E., Roberts, A. C., Sawiak, S. J., & Burkart, J. M. (2024). Neurodevelopmental timing and socio-cognitive development in a prosocial cooperatively breeding primate ( Callithrix jacchus ). Science Advances, 10. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ado3486
Ben Mahmoud, I., Sarkar, E., Manser, M., & Magimai-Doss, M. (2024). Feature Representations for Automatic Meerkat Vocalization Classification. Presented at the 4th International Workshop on Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots.
Shaitarova, A., Bauer, N., Vamvas, J., & Volk, M. (2024). Tracing Linguistic Footprints of {C}hat{GPT} Across Tasks, Domains and Personas in {E}nglish and {G}erman (C. Corsin, C. Mark, W. Albert, M. Claudiu, M. Elisabeth, & Z. Lucas, Eds.). Chur, Switzerland. Retrieved from https://aclanthology.org/2024.swisstext-1.9/
Gao, Y., Prada, J., Gu, N., Lam, J., & Hahnloser, R. H. R. (2024). MODOC: A Modular Interface for Flexible Interlinking of Text Retrieval and Text Generation Functions. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2408.14623
Gönül, G., & Clément, F. (2024). How young children use manifest emotions and dominance cues to understand social rules: a registered report. Cognition and Emotion, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2384140
Fröhlich, M., van Noordwijk, M. A., Mitra Setia, T., van Schaik, C. P., & Knief, U. (2024). Wild and captive immature orangutans differ in their non-vocal communication with others, but not with their mothers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 78. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-023-03426-3
Cai, L., Arimitsu, T., Shinohara, N., Takahashi, T., Hakuno, Y., Hata, M., … Minagawa, Y. (2024). Functional reorganization of brain regions supporting artificial grammar learning across the first half year of life. PLOS Biology, 22, e3002610. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002610
Cathcart, C., & Jäger, G. (2024). Exploring the evolutionary dynamics of sound symbolism. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46, 1076--1083. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-270352
Gu, N., & Hahnloser, R. (2024). Controllable Citation Sentence Generation with Language Models. https://doi.org/10.3929/ETHZ-B-000716505
Torres, C., Morand, M.-A., Sauppe, S., & Bickel, B. (2024). The Effects of Syntactic Dependencies and Speech Tempo on Macro-Rhythm. https://doi.org/10.5167/UZH-265397
Müller, N. D. (2024). History, Knowledge, and Organization: Beyond Animal Rights Vanguardism. Politics and Animals, 10, 1--14.
Zaghir, J., Bjelogrlic, M., Goldman, J.-P., Ehrsam, J., Gaudet-Blavignac, C., & Lovis, C. (2024). Human-machine interactions with clinical phrase prediction system, aligning with Zipf’s least effort principle? PLOS ONE, 19, e0316177. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0316177
Zaghir, J., Bjelogrlic, M., Goldman, J.-P., Bensahla, A., Zheng, Y., & Lovis, C. (2024). Beyond Tokens: Fair Evaluation of French Large Language Models for Clinical Named Entity Recognition. In Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems (pp. 666--670).
Watson, S. K., Zali, M., Falk, N., Widmer, P., & Manser, M. B. (2024). Inter-call intervals, but not call durations, adhere to Menzerath’s Law in the submissive vocal bouts of meerkats. Royal Society Open Science, 11. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241351
Van De Ville, D., & Liégeois, R. (2024). Dynamic functional connectivity to tile the spatiotemporal mosaic of brain states. Imaging Neuroscience, 2, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00364
Toutounji, H., Zai, A. T., Tchernichovski, O., Hahnloser, R. H. R., & Lipkind, D. (2024). Learning the sound inventory of a complex vocal skill via an intrinsic reward. Science Advances, 10. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj3824
Zaghir, J., Bjelogrlic, M., Goldman, J.-P., Aananou, S., Gaudet- Blavignac, C., & Lovis, C. (2024). {FRASIMED}: A Clinical {F}rench Annotated Resource Produced through Crosslingual {BERT}-Based Annotation Projection (N. Calzolari, M.-Y. Kan, V. Hoste, A. Lenci, S. Sakti, & N. Xue, Eds.). Torino, Italia. Retrieved from https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.657
Wu, S., Bhadra, K., Giraud, A.-L., & Marchesotti, S. (2024). Adaptive LDA Classifier Enhances Real-Time Control of an EEG Brain–Computer Interface for Decoding Imagined Syllables. Brain Sciences, 14, 196. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14030196
Wilson, V. A. D., Sauppe, S., Brocard, S., Ringen, E., Daum, M. M., Wermelinger, S., … Zuberbühler, K. (2024). Humans and great apes visually track event roles in similar ways. PLOS Biology, 22, e3002857. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002857
Taylor, D., Adue, S., M’Botella, M., Tatone, D., Davila-Ross, M., Zuberbühler, K., & Dezecache, G. (2024). The motivation to inform others: a field experiment with wild chimpanzees. PeerJ, 12, e18498. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18498
Takahashi, T., Glaser, E., & Ranacher, P. (2024). {Inferring the Origin of Linguistic Features from an Atlas: A Case Study of Swiss-German Dialects.}. In B. Adams, A. L. Griffin, S. Scheider, & G. McKenzie (Eds.), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) (p. 18:1--18:9). Dagstuhl, Germany. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.18
Pozzi, M., Bangerter, A., & Mazzarella, D. (2024). Does Lexical Coordination Affect Epistemic and Practical Trust? The Role of Conceptual Pacts. Cognitive Science, 48. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13372
Pellegrino, E. (2024). After Self-Imitation Prosodic Training L2 Learners Converge Prosodically to the Native Speakers. Languages, 9, 33. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9010033
Pasqualotto, A., Cochrane, A., Bavelier, D., & Altarelli, I. (2024). A novel task and methods to evaluate inter-individual variation in audio-visual associative learning. Cognition, 242, 105658. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105658
Rampinini, A., Balboni, I., Golestani, N., & Berthele, R. (2024). A behavioural exploration of language aptitude and experience, cognition and more using Graph Analysis. Brain Research, 1842, 149109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2024.149109

2023

Chousou-Polydouri, N., Inman, D., Huber, T. C., & Bickel, B. (2023). Multi-variate coding for possession: methodology and preliminary results. Linguistics, 61, 1365–1402. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2022-0021
Cerrito, P., & Burkart, J. M. (2023). Human Amygdala Volumetric Patterns Convergently Evolved in Cooperatively Breeding and Domesticated Species. Human Nature, 34, 501–511. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-023-09461-3
Burkart, J. M., Brügger, R. K., & Phaniraj, N. (2023). Synchronization: When is it more than an epiphenomenon? A modelling approach. Comment on “the evolution of social timing” by L. Verga, S. A. Kotz & A. Ravignani. Physics of Life Reviews, 47, 172–173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2023.10.009
Orepic, P., Truccolo, W., Halgren, E., Cash, S. S., Giraud, A.-L., & Proix, T. (2023). Neural manifolds carry reactivation of phonetic representations during semantic processing. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.30.564638
Friedrichs, D., & Dellwo, V. (2023). Reorganization of the auditory-perceptual space across the human vocal range. https://doi.org/10.5167/UZH-256575
Watson, S. K., Mine, J. G., O’Neill, L. G., Mueller, J. L., Russell, A. F., & Townsend, S. W. (2023). Cognitive constraints on vocal combinatoriality in a social bird. IScience, 26, 106977. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106977
Taylor, D., Gönül, G., Alexander, C., Züberbühler, K., Clément, F., & Glock, H. (2023). Reading minds or reading scripts? De‐intellectualising theory of mind. Biological Reviews, 98, 2028–2048. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12994
Su, Y., MacGregor, L. J., Olasagasti, I., & Giraud, A.-L. (2023). A deep hierarchy of predictions enables online meaning extraction in a computational model of human speech comprehension. PLOS Biology, 21, e3002046. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002046
Shaitarova, A., Göhring, A., & Volk, M. (2023). Machine vs. Human: Exploring Syntax and Lexicon in {G}erman Translations, with a Spotlight on Anglicisms (T. Alumäe & M. Fishel, Eds.). Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. Retrieved from https://aclanthology.org/2023.nodalida-1.22
Sauppe, S., Næss, Å., Roversi, G., Meyer, M., Bornkessel‐Schlesewsky, I., & Bickel, B. (2023). An Agent‐First Preference in a Patient‐First Language During Sentence Comprehension. Cognitive Science, 47. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13340
Phaniraj, N., Wierucka, K., Zürcher, Y., & Burkart, J. M. (2023). Who is calling? Optimizing source identification from marmoset vocalizations with hierarchical machine learning classifiers. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 20. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2023.0399
Pellegrino, E., & Dellwo, V. (2023). Speakers are more cooperative and less individual when interacting in larger group sizes. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1145572
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Schlicht, T., Brandl, J. L., Esken, F., Glock, H.-J., Newen, A., Perner, J., … Wolf, J. (2021). Teleology first: Goals before knowledge and belief. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x20001533
Sauppe, S., & Flecken, M. (2021). Speaking for seeing: Sentence structure guides visual event apprehension. Cognition, 206, 104516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104516
Sauppe, S., Choudhary, K. K., Giroud, N., Blasi, D. E., Norcliffe, E., Bhattamishra, S., … Bickel, B. (2021). Neural signatures of syntactic variation in speech planning. PLOS Biology, 19, e3001038. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001038
Samo, G., & Merlo, P. (2021). Intervention effects in clefts: a study in quantitative computational syntax. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 6. https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5742
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Burkart, J. M., & Rossano, F. (2021). Marmoset monkeys overcome dyadic social dilemmas while avoiding mutual defection. Animal Behaviour, 173, 93–104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.12.020
Ranacher, P., Neureiter, N., van Gijn, R., Sonnenhauser, B., Escher, A., Weibel, R., … Bickel, B. (2021). Contact-tracing in cultural evolution: a Bayesian mixture model to detect geographic areas of language contact. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 18, 20201031. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.1031
Pellegrino, E., Schwab, S., & Dellwo, V. (2021). Native listeners rely on rhythmic cues when deciding on the nativeness of speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150, 2836–2853. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0006537
Mazara, J., & Stoll, S. (2021). A novel non-linguistic audio-visual learning paradigm to test the cognitive correlates of learning rate. 43, 335--361. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5pj9t90k
Seifart, F., Strunk, J., Danielsen, S., Hartmann, I., Pakendorf, B., Wichmann, S., … Bickel, B. (2021). The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages. Linguistics Vanguard, 7. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0063
Sato, T., Adachi, N., Kimura, R., Hosomichi, K., Yoneda, M., Oota, H., … Ishida, H. (2021). Whole-Genome Sequencing of a 900-Year-Old Human Skeleton Supports Two Past Migration Events from the Russian Far East to Northern Japan. Genome Biology and Evolution, 13. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab192
Rychen, J., Rodrigues, D. I., Tomka, T., Rüttimann, L., Yamahachi, H., & Hahnloser, R. H. R. (2021). A system for controlling vocal communication networks. Scientific Reports, 11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90549-0
Ravignani, A., & Garcia, M. (2021). A cross-species framework to identify vocal learning abilities in mammals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0394
Neureiter, N., Ranacher, P., van Gijn, R., Bickel, B., & Weibel, R. (2021). Can Bayesian phylogeography reconstruct migrations and expansions in linguistic evolution? Royal Society Open Science, 8, 201079. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201079
Narula, G., & Hahnloser, R. H. R. (2021). Songbirds are excellent auditory discriminators, irrespective of age and experience. Animal Behaviour, 175, 123–135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.02.018
Mohammadshahi, A., & Henderson, J. (2021). Recursive Non-Autoregressive Graph-to-Graph Transformer for Dependency Parsing with Iterative Refinement. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 9, 120–138. https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00358
Matsumae, H., Ranacher, P., Savage, P. E., Blasi, D. E., Currie, T. E., Koganebuchi, K., … Bickel, B. (2021). Exploring correlations in genetic and cultural variation across language families in northeast Asia. Science Advances, 7. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd9223
Maghsadhagh, S., Dalboni da Rocha, J. L., Benner, J., Schneider, P., Golestani, N., & Behjat, H. (2021). A Discriminative Characterization of Heschl’s Gyrus Morphology using Spectral Graph Features. 3577–3581. https://doi.org/10.1109/embc46164.2021.9630788
Leroux, M., Bosshard, A. B., Chandia, B., Manser, A., Zuberbühler, K., & Townsend, S. W. (2021). Chimpanzees combine pant hoots with food calls into larger structures. Animal Behaviour, 179, 41–50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.06.026
Le Floch, A., Bouchard, A., Gallot, Q., & Zuberbühler, K. (2021). Lesser spot-nosed monkeys coordinate alarm call production with associated Campbell’s monkeys. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 75. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-021-03053-w
Karipidis, I. I., Pleisch, G., Di Pietro, S. V., Fraga-González, G., & Brem, S. (2021). Developmental Trajectories of Letter and Speech Sound Integration During Reading Acquisition. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.750491
Manfredi, M., Celebic, C., & Daum, M. M. (2021). When dogs meow: An electrophysiological study of lexical–semantic processing in toddlers. Infancy, 26, 1076–1096. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12434
Liégeois, R., Yeo, B. T. T., & Van De Ville, D. (2021). Interpreting null models of resting-state functional MRI dynamics: not throwing the model out with the hypothesis. NeuroImage, 243, 118518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118518
Laganaro, M., Fougeron, C., Pernon, M., Levêque, N., Borel, S., Fournet, M., … Delvaux, V. (2021). Sensitivity and specificity of an acoustic- and perceptual-based tool for assessing motor speech disorders in French: the MonPaGe-screening protocol. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 35, 1060–1075. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2020.1865460
Kurthen, I., Galbier, J., Jagoda, L., Neuschwander, P., Giroud, N., & Meyer, M. (2021). Selective attention modulates neural envelope tracking of informationally masked speech in healthy older adults. Human Brain Mapping, 42, 3042–3057. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25415
Jing, Y., Widmer, P., & Bickel, B. (2021). Word Order Variation is Partially Constrained by Syntactic Complexity. Cognitive Science, 45. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13056
Gu, N., Ash, E., & Hahnloser, R. H. R. (2021). MemSum: Extractive Summarization of Long Documents Using Multi-Step Episodic Markov Decision Processes. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2107.08929
Ranacher, P., & Neureiter, N. (2021). Hidden spatial clusters - and how to find them. Presented at the Spatial Data Science Symposium 2021 Short Paper Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.25436/E2G01J
Heesen, R., Bangerter, A., Zuberbühler, K., Iglesias, K., Neumann, C., Pajot, A., … Genty, E. (2021). Assessing joint commitment as a process in great apes. IScience, 24, 102872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102872
Heesen, R., Zuberbühler, K., Bangerter, A., Iglesias, K., Rossano, F., Pajot, A., … Genty, E. (2021). Evidence of joint commitment in great apes’ natural joint actions. Royal Society Open Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211121
Gruber, T., Chimento, M., Aplin, L. M., & Biro, D. (2021). Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0308
Glock, H.-J., & Schmidt, E. (2021). Pluralism about practical reasons and reason explanations. Philosophical Explorations, 24, 119–136. https://doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2021.1908578
Ger, E., Stuber, L., Küntay, A. C., Göksun, T., Stoll, S., & Daum, M. M. (2021). Influence of causal language on causal understanding: A comparison between Swiss German and Turkish. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 210, 105182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105182
Gaudet-Blavignac, C., Foufi, V., Bjelogrlic, M., & Lovis, C. (2021). Use of the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) for Processing Free Text in Health Care: Systematic Scoping Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23, e24594. https://doi.org/10.2196/24594
Gampe, A., Quick, A. E., & Daum, M. M. (2021). Does Linguistic Similarity Affect Early Simultaneous Bilingual Language Acquisition? Journal of Language Contact, 13, 482–500. https://doi.org/10.1163/19552629-13030001
Fraga-González, G., Pleisch, G., Di Pietro, S. V., Neuenschwander, J., Walitza, S., Brandeis, D., … Brem, S. (2021). The rise and fall of rapid occipito-temporal sensitivity to letters: Transient specialization through elementary school. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 49, 100958. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100958
Fröhlich, M., Bartolotta, N., Fryns, C., Wagner, C., Momon, L., Jaffrezic, M., … van Schaik, C. P. (2021). Multicomponent and multisensory communicative acts in orang-utans may serve different functions. Communications Biology, 4. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02429-y

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You, G., Daum, M., & Stoll, S. (2020). Processing causatives in first language acquisition: A computational approach. https://doi.org/10.5167/UZH-204017
Glock, H.-J. (2020). Concepts and experience: a non-representationalist approach. In C. Demmerling & D. Schröder (Eds.), Concepts in thought, action, and emotion: new essays (pp. 21--41). Abingdon. Retrieved from https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/234929/
Townsend, S. W., Watson, S. K., & Slocombe, K. E. (2020). Flexibility in Great Ape Vocal Production. In L. M. Hopper & S. R. Ross (Eds.), Chimpanzees in Context (pp. 260--280). Chicago. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-213406
Glock, H.-J. (2020). Flüchtige Gedanken über Nachdenklichkeit. In C. Abbt, D. Schoeller, & H. von Sass (Eds.), Nachdenklichkeit (pp. 59--70). Zürich. Retrieved from https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/195143/
Wermelinger, S., Gampe, A., Helbling, N., & Daum, M. M. (2020). Do you understand what I want to tell you? Early sensitivity in bilinguals’ iconic gesture perception and production. Developmental Science, 23. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12943
Stoll, S., & Schikowski, R. (2020). Child-Language Corpora. In A Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics (pp. 305–327). Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46216-1_14
Shorland, G., Genty, E., Guéry, J.-P., & Zuberbühler, K. (2020). Investigating self-recognition in bonobos: mirror exposure reduces looking time to self but not unfamiliar conspecifics. PeerJ, 8, e9685. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9685
Shimizu, K. K., Copetti, D., Okada, M., Wicker, T., Tameshige, T., Hatakeyama, M., … Handa, H. (2020). De Novo Genome Assembly of the Japanese Wheat Cultivar Norin 61 Highlights Functional Variation in Flowering Time andFusarium-Resistant Genes in East Asian Genotypes. Plant and Cell Physiology, 62, 8–27. https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcaa152
Widmer, M., Jenny, M., Behr, W., & Bickel, B. (2020). Morphological structure can escape reduction effects from mass admixture of second language speakers: Evidence from Sino-Tibetan. Studies in Language, 45, 707–752. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.19059.wid
Watson, S. K., Burkart, J. M., Schapiro, S. J., Lambeth, S. P., Mueller, J. L., & Townsend, S. W. (2020). Nonadjacent dependency processing in monkeys, apes, and humans. Science Advances, 6. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb0725
Watson, S. K., Heesen, R., Hedwig, D., Robbins, M. M., & Townsend, S. W. (2020). An exploration of Menzerath’s law in wild mountain gorilla vocal sequences. Biology Letters, 16, 20200380. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0380
Wang, F., Karipidis, I. I., Pleisch, G., Fraga-González, G., & Brem, S. (2020). Development of Print-Speech Integration in the Brain of Beginning Readers With Varying Reading Skills. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.00289
Urban, M., & Barbieri, C. (2020). North and South in the ancient Central Andes: Contextualizing the archaeological record with evidence from linguistics and molecular anthropology. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 60, 101233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101233
Schulze, C., Endesfelder Quick, A., Gampe, A., & Daum, M. M. (2020). Understanding verbal indirect communication in monolingual and bilingual children. Cognitive Development, 55, 100912. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100912
Marchesotti, S., Nicolle, J., Merlet, I., Arnal, L. H., Donoghue, J. P., & Giraud, A.-L. (2020). Selective enhancement of low-gamma activity by tACS improves phonemic processing and reading accuracy in dyslexia. PLOS Biology, 18, e3000833. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000833
Lancheros, M., Jouen, A.-L., & Laganaro, M. (2020). Neural dynamics of speech and non-speech motor planning. Brain and Language, 203, 104742. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104742
Kurthen, I., Meyer, M., Schlesewsky, M., & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2020). Individual Differences in Peripheral Hearing and Cognition Reveal Sentence Processing Differences in Healthy Older Adults. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.573513
Krethlow, G., Fargier, R., & Laganaro, M. (2020). Age‐Specific Effects of Lexical–Semantic Networks on Word Production. Cognitive Science, 44. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12915
Jouen, A.-L., Lancheros, M., & Laganaro, M. (2020). Microstate ERP Analyses to Pinpoint the Articulatory Onset in Speech Production. Brain Topography, 34, 29–40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-020-00803-3
Mehringer, H., Fraga-González, G., Pleisch, G., Röthlisberger, M., Aepli, F., Keller, V., … Brem, S. (2020). (Swiss) GraphoLearn: an app-based tool to support beginning readers. Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41039-020-0125-0
Hovsepyan, S., Olasagasti, I., & Giraud, A.-L. (2020). Combining predictive coding and neural oscillations enables online syllable recognition in natural speech. Nature Communications, 11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16956-5
Heesen, R., Bangerter, A., Zuberbühler, K., Rossano, F., Iglesias, K., Guéry, J.-P., & Genty, E. (2020). Bonobos engage in joint commitment. Science Advances, 6. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd1306
Glock, H.-J. (2020). Determinacy of Content: The Hard Problem about Animal Intentionality. The Harvard Review of Philosophy, 27, 101–120. https://doi.org/10.5840/harvardreview202072631
Genty, E., Heesen, R., Guéry, J.-P., Rossano, F., Zuberbühler, K., & Bangerter, A. (2020). How apes get into and out of joint actions: Shared intentionality as an interactional achievement. Interaction Studies, 21, 353–386. https://doi.org/10.1075/is.18048.gen
Hrdy, S. B., & Burkart, J. M. (2020). The emergence of emotionally modern humans: implications for language and learning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 375, 20190499. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0499
Grandjean, D. (2020). Brain Networks of Emotional Prosody Processing. Emotion Review, 13, 34–43. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073919898522
Glock, H.-J. (2020). Minds, Brains, and Capacities: Situated Cognition and Neo-Aristotelianism. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.566385
Glock, H.-J. (2020). Ayer’s Verificationism: Dead as a Dodo? In The Historical and Philosophical Significance of Ayer’s Language, Truth and Logic (pp. 251–278). Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50884-5_8
Glock, H.-J. (2020). Analytische Philosophie (I): Willard Van Orman Quine. In Handbuch Ontologie (pp. 236–242). Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04638-3_31
Garcia, M., & Manser, M. (2020). Bound for Specific Sounds: Vocal Predisposition in Animal Communication. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24, 690–693. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.05.013
Dezecache, G., Zuberbühler, K., Davila-Ross, M., & Dahl, C. D. (2020). A machine learning approach to infant distress calls and maternal behaviour of wild chimpanzees. Animal Cognition, 24, 443–455. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-020-01437-5
Filippi, P. (2020). Emotional Voice Intonation: A Communication Code at the Origins of Speech Processing and Word-Meaning Associations? Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 44, 395–417. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-020-00337-z
Fargier, R., & Laganaro, M. (2020). Neural dynamics of the production of newly acquired words relative to well-known words. Brain Research, 1727, 146557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2019.146557
Dröge, A., Rabs, E., Fleischer, J., Billion, S. K. H., Meyer, M., Schmid, S., … Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2020). Case Syncretism, Animacy, and Word Order in Continental West Germanic: Neurolinguistic Evidence from a Comparative Study on Standard German, Zurich German, and Fering (North Frisian). Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 32, 217–310. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1470542719000199
Collier, K., Radford, A. N., Stoll, S., Watson, S. K., Manser, M. B., Bickel, B., & Townsend, S. W. (2020). Dwarf mongoose alarm calls: investigating a complex non-human animal call. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287, 20192514. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2514
Clément, F., & Dukes, D. (2020). Affective Social Learning serves as a quick and flexible complement to TTOM. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x19002784
Charafeddine, R., Zambrana, I. M., Triniol, B., Mercier, H., Clément, F., Kaufmann, L., … Van der Henst, J.-B. (2020). How Preschoolers Associate Power with Gender in Male-Female Interactions: A Cross-Cultural Investigation. Sex Roles, 83, 453–473. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-019-01116-x
Cathcart, C. A., Hölzl, A., Jäger, G., Widmer, P., & Bickel, B. (2020). Numeral classifiers and number marking in Indo-Iranian: A phylogenetic approach. Language Dynamics and Change, 11, 273–325. https://doi.org/10.1163/22105832-bja10013
Brem, S., Maurer, U., Kronbichler, M., Schurz, M., Richlan, F., Blau, V., … Brandeis, D. (2020). Visual word form processing deficits driven by severity of reading impairments in children with developmental dyslexia. Scientific Reports, 10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-75111-8
Atanasova, T., Fargier, R., Zesiger, P., & Laganaro, M. (2020). Dynamics of Word Production in the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood. Neurobiology of Language, 2, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00024
Andrieu, J., Penny, S. G., Bouchet, H., Malaivijitnond, S., Reichard, U. H., & Zuberbühler, K. (2020). White-handed gibbons discriminate context-specific song compositions. PeerJ, 8, e9477. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9477

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