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2025

Egurtzegi, A., Sauppe, S., Isasi-Isasmendi, A., de la Hidalga, G. M., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Schlesewsky, M., … 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., … 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, February 24). 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. Retrieved from 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. Retrieved from 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., … 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

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

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
Schulthess, L., Marty, S., Dirodi, M., Rocha, M. D., Rüttimann, L., Hahnloser, R. H. R., & Magno, M. (2023). TinyBird-ML: An ultra-low Power Smart Sensor Node for Bird Vocalization Analysis and Syllable Classification. 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1109/iscas46773.2023.10181431
Schamberg, I., Clay, Z., Townsend, S. W., & Surbeck, M. (2023). Between-group variation in production of pant-grunt vocalizations by wild bonobos (Pan paniscus). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 77. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-022-03285-4
Sarkar, E., & Magimai.-Doss, M. (2023). Can Self-Supervised Neural Representations Pre-Trained on Human Speech distinguish Animal Callers? Interspeech_2023. Presented at the INTERSPEECH 2023. https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2023-1968
Piton, T., Hermann, E., Pasqualotto, A., Cohen, M., Magimai.-Doss, M., & Bavelier, D. (2023). Using Commercial ASR Solutions to Assess Reading Skills in Children: A Case Report. Interspeech_2023, 4573–4577. https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2023-928
Lehoczki, F., Andics, A., Kershenbaum, A., Kubinyi, E., Passilongo, D., Root-Gutteridge, H., … Faragó, T. (2023). Genetic distance from wolves affects family dogs’ reactions towards howls. Communications Biology, 6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04450-9
Kepinska, O., Dalboni da Rocha, J., Tuerk, C., Hervais-Adelman, A., Bouhali, F., Green, D., … Golestani, N. (2023). Auditory cortex anatomy reflects multilingual phonological experience. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.90269.1
Jing, Y., Widmer, P., & Bickel, B. (2023). Word order evolves at similar rates in main and subordinate clauses: Corpus-based evidence from Indo-European. Diachronica, 40, 532–556. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.20035.jin
Isasi-Isasmendi, A., Andrews, C., Flecken, M., Laka, I., Daum, M. M., Meyer, M., … Sauppe, S. (2023). The Agent Preference in Visual Event Apprehension. Open Mind, 7, 240–282. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00083
Malbois, E. (2023). Two Issues with the Empathy-Based Argument Against Robot-Physicians. In Social Robots in Social Institutions. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/FAIA220606
Müller, N. D. (2023). Rational Hope for the Animal Rights Movement. Journal of Animal Ethics, 13, 111–121. https://doi.org/10.5406/21601267.13.2.02
Lorenz, C., Hao, X., Tomka, T., Rüttimann, L., & Hahnloser, R. H. R. (2023). Interactive extraction of diverse vocal units from a planar embedding without the need for prior sound segmentation. Frontiers in Bioinformatics, 2. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbinf.2022.966066
Leroux, M., Schel, A. M., Wilke, C., Chandia, B., Zuberbühler, K., Slocombe, K. E., & Townsend, S. W. (2023). Call combinations and compositional processing in wild chimpanzees. Nature Communications, 14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37816-y
Lancheros, M., Atanasova, T., & Laganaro, M. (2023). When does speech planning rely on motor routines? ERP comparison of speech and non-speech from childhood to adulthood. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 38, 1115–1132. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2212818

2022

Feurstein, L., Furrer, R., & Stoll, S. (2022). Turn-Taking Predicts Vocabulary Acquisition at 18 Months: A Study of Daylong Recordings. https://doi.org/10.5167/UZH-237257
Witzlack-Makarevich, A., Nichols, J., Hildebrandt, K. A., Zakharko, T., & Bickel, B. (2022). Managing AUTOTYP Data: Design Principles and Implementation. In The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management (pp. 631–642). Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12200.003.0061
Saldana, C., Herce, B., & Bickel, B. (2022). More or Less Unnatural: Semantic Similarity Shapes the Learnability and Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Unnatural Syncretism in Morphological Paradigms. Open Mind, 6, 183–210. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00062
Jing, Y., Blasi, D. E., & Bickel, B. (2022). Dependency-length minimization and its limits: A possible role for a probabilistic version of the final-over-final condition. Language, 98, 397–418. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.0.0267
Phaniraj, N. (2022). Machine learning approaches for tracking changes in marmoset vocalizations and social behaviors.
Müller, N. D. (2022). Kantianism for Animals: A radical Kantian animal ethic.
Rochant, N., Allassonni\\`ere-Tang, M., & Cathcart, C. (2022). The evolutionary trends of noun class systems in Atlantic languages. In A. Ravignani, R. Asano, & D. Valente (Eds.), Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE) (pp. 624--631). https://doi.org/10.17617/2.3398549
Zaghir, J., Goldman, J.-P., Bjelogrlic, M., Keszthelyi, D., Gaudet-Blavignac, C., Turbé, H., … Lovis, C. (2022). Performance of Machine Learning Methods to Classify French Medical Publications. In Challenges of Trustable AI and Added-Value on Health. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI220613
Zaghir, J., Goldman, J.-P., Bjelogrlic, M., Gaudet-Blavignac, C., & Lovis, C. (2022). Caregivers Interactions with Clinical Autocomplete Tool: A Retrospective Study. In Advances in Informatics, Management and Technology in Healthcare. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI220679
Zuberbühler, K., & Bickel, B. (2022). Transition to language: From agent perception to event representation. WIREs Cognitive Science, 13. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1594
Zuberbühler, K., León, J., Deshpande, A., & Quintero, F. (2022). Socially scripted vocal learning in primates. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 46, 101153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101153
Saldana, C., Herce, B., & Bickel, B. (2022). A Naturalness Gradient Shapes the Learnability and Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Morphological Paradigms. Cognitive Science Society. Annual Conference. Proceedings, 44, 787--794. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-219101
Wyman, M. T., Walkenhorst, B., & Manser, M. B. (2022). Selection levels on vocal individuality: strategic use or byproduct. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 46, 101140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101140
Wermelinger, S., Moersdorf, L., & Daum, M. M. (2022). How experience shapes infants’ communicative behaviour: Comparing gaze following in infants with and without pandemic experience. Infancy, 27, 937–962. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12488
Watson, S. K., Filippi, P., Gasparri, L., Falk, N., Tamer, N., Widmer, P., … Glock, H. (2022). Optionality in animal communication: a novel framework for examining the evolution of arbitrariness. Biological Reviews, 97, 2057–2075. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12882
Watson, S. K., Lambeth, S. P., & Schapiro, S. J. (2022). Innovative multi-material tool use in the pant-hoot display of a chimpanzee. Scientific Reports, 12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-24770-w
Udry, I., & Berthele, R. (2022). Fachbeitrag: Entwicklung der Fremdsprachkompetenzen Englisch bei Kindern mit sonderpädagogischer Förderung. Vierteljahresschrift Für Heilpädagogik Und Ihre Nachbargebiete, 91, 212–229. https://doi.org/10.2378/vhn2022.art27d
Taylor, D., Clay, Z., Dahl, C. D., Zuberbühler, K., Davila-Ross, M., & Dezecache, G. (2022). Vocal functional flexibility: what it is and why it matters. Animal Behaviour, 186, 93–100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.01.015
Stevenson, S., & Merlo, P. (2022). Beyond the Benchmarks: Toward Human-Like Lexical Representations. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2022.796741
Spiess, S., Mylne, H. K., Engesser, S., Mine, J. G., O’Neill, L. G., Russell, A. F., & Townsend, S. W. (2022). Syntax-like Structures in Maternal Contact Calls of Chestnut-Crowned Babblers (Pomatostomus ruficeps). International Journal of Primatology, 45, 543–562. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-022-00332-9
Sotiropoulos, A. G., Arango-Isaza, E., Ban, T., Barbieri, C., Bourras, S., Cowger, C., … Wicker, T. (2022). Global genomic analyses of wheat powdery mildew reveal association of pathogen spread with historical human migration and trade. Nature Communications, 13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31975-0
Wilson, V. A. D., Zuberbühler, K., & Bickel, B. (2022). The evolutionary origins of syntax: Event cognition in nonhuman primates. Science Advances, 8. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abn8464
Wilke, C., Lahiff, N. J., Badihi, G., Donnellan, E., Hobaiter, C., Machanda, Z. P., … Slocombe, K. E. (2022). Referential gestures are not ubiquitous in wild chimpanzees: alternative functions for exaggerated loud scratch gestures. Animal Behaviour, 189, 23–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.04.007
Wilke, C., Lahiff, N. J., Sabbi, K. H., Watts, D. P., Townsend, S. W., & Slocombe, K. E. (2022). Declarative referential gesturing in a wild chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes ). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2206486119
Wermelinger, S., Moersdorf, L., Ammann, S., & Daum, M. M. (2022). Exploring the role of COVID-19 pandemic-related changes in social interactions on preschoolers’ emotion labeling. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.942535

2021

Pellegrino, E., He, L., & Dellwo, V. (2021). Age-related rhythmic variations: The role of syllable intensity variability. https://doi.org/10.5167/UZH-203680
Berthele, R., & Udry, I. (Eds.). (2021). {Individual} differences in early instructed language learning. Berlin.
Mazara, J., & Stoll, S. (2021). Frequency vs. Salience in First Language Acquisition: The Acquisition of Aspect Marking in Chintang. 43, 840--846. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-208351
Hollenstein, N., Pirovano, F., Zhang, C., Jäger, L. A., & Beinborn, L. (2021). Multilingual Language Models Predict Human Reading Behavior. Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 106--123. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.10
Glock, H.-J. (2021). Animal consciousness - A limit of language? In H. Appelqvist (Ed.), Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language (pp. 197--222). New York. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-184298
Zürcher, Y., Willems, E. P., & Burkart, J. M. (2021). Trade-offs between vocal accommodation and individual recognisability in common marmoset vocalizations. Scientific Reports, 11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95101-8
Wirsich, J., Jorge, J., Iannotti, G. R., Shamshiri, E. A., Grouiller, F., Abreu, R., … Vulliémoz, S. (2021). The relationship between EEG and fMRI connectomes is reproducible across simultaneous EEG-fMRI studies from 1.5T to 7T. NeuroImage, 231, 117864. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117864
Whiten, A., Harrison, R. A., McGuigan, N., Vale, G. L., & Watson, S. K. (2021). Collective knowledge and the dynamics of culture in chimpanzees. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0321
Townsend, S. W., & Hervais-Adelman, A. (2021). Speech segmentation: New dogs, old tricks? Current Biology, 31, R1580–R1582. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.10.042
You, G., Bickel, B., Daum, M. M., & Stoll, S. (2021). Child-directed speech is optimized for syntax-free semantic inference. Scientific Reports, 11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95392-x
Watson, S. K., Burkart, J. M., Schapiro, S. J., Lambeth, S. P., Mueller, J. L., & Townsend, S. W. (2021). Reply to comment on “Nonadjacent dependency processing in monkeys, apes, and humans.” Science Advances, 7. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj1517
Van De Ville, D., Farouj, Y., Preti, M. G., Liégeois, R., & Amico, E. (2021). When makes you unique: Temporality of the human brain fingerprint. Science Advances, 7. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj0751
Vale, G. L., McGuigan, N., Burdett, E., Lambeth, S. P., Lucas, A., Rawlings, B., … Whiten, A. (2021). Why do chimpanzees have diverse behavioral repertoires yet lack more complex cultures? Invention and social information use in a cumulative task. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42, 247–258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.11.003
Schwab, S., & Dellwo, V. (2021). Explicit versus non-explicit prosodic training in the learning of Spanish L2 stress contrasts by French listeners. Journal of Second Language Studies, 5, 266–306. https://doi.org/10.1075/jsls.21017.sch
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

2020

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

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