Andrea Ravignani Ruth-Sophie Sonnweber Nina Stobbe W. Tecumseh Fitch Articles on similar topics can be found in the following collections behaviour (758 articles) cognition (150 articles ... sensitivity in a New World primate Andrea Ravignani, Ruth-Sophie Sonnweber, Nina Stobbe and W. Tecumseh Fitch Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse, 14, Vienna 1090, Austria
Cumulative tool-based culture underwrote our species' evolutionary success, and tool-based nut-cracking is one of the strongest candidates for cultural transmission in our closest relatives, chimpanzees. However the social learning processes that may explain both the similarities and differences between the species remain unclear. A previous study of nut-cracking by initially na...
Humans have a strong proclivity for structuring and patterning stimuli: Whether in space or time, we tend to mentally order stimuli in our environment and organize them into units with specific types of relationships. A crucial prerequisite for such organization is the cognitive ability to discern and process regularities among multiple stimuli. To investigate the evolutionary...
Andrea Ravignani 2 Artificial Intelligence Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel , Brussels , Belgium Temporal regularities in speech, such as interdependencies in the timing of speech events, are thought to
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discussed the data and revised the manuscript. All authors gave final approval for publication. Funding Andrea Ravignani has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
that mathematics has been refining for decades. Andrea Ravignani Sealcentre Pieterburen, the Netherlands. See go.nature.com/2p8ybp for a full list of references. Sole survivor of a once-diverse
Objectives Timing and rhythm (i.e. temporal structure) are crucial, though historically neglected, dimensions of animal communication. When investigating these in non-human animals, it is often difficult to balance experimental control and ecological validity. Here I present the first step of an attempt to balance the two, focusing on the timing of vocal rhythms in a harbor seal...
Timing and rhythm (i.e. temporal structure) are crucial, though historically neglected, dimensions of animal communication. When investigating these in non-human animals, it is often difficult to balance experimental control and ecological validity. Here I present the first step of an attempt to balance the two, focusing on the timing of vocal rhythms in a harbor seal pup (Phoca...
One of the most controversial hypotheses in cognitive science is the Chomskyan evolutionary conjecture that language arose instantaneously in humans through a single mutation. Here we analyze the evolutionary dynamics implied by this hypothesis, which has never been formalized before. The hypothesis supposes the emergence and fixation of a single mutant (capable of the syntactic...
Following publication of the original article [1], the author reported an error in the first sentence of the ‘Sound recordings’ section. The recordings mentioned in this sentence were performed 6 days later than written. In this Correction article the original and corrected version of the sentence are presented.
Dance is an icon of human expression. Despite astounding diversity around the world’s cultures and dazzling abundance of reminiscent animal systems, the evolution of dance in the human clade remains obscure. Dance requires individuals to interactively synchronize their whole-body tempo to their partner’s, with near-perfect precision. This capacity is motorically-heavy, engaging...
