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Guess who's on the cover of PLoS Computational Biology🥳📜? Nikhil Phaniraj rahel k brügger Evolutionary Cognition Group find that marmoset monkey🐒🐒pairs take turns to be vigilant while they are feeding & they model the monkeys as coupled oscillators over time! dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

📢New research from our lab is out in PLOS Comp Biol and our reimagined marmosets are featured on the cover: doi.org/10.1371/journa…🌞🐒

The (almost complete) Evolutionary Cognition Group contingent 😍❤️EFP2024 ready for the last day of the conference 🐒😄

This morning we continued with 3 more talks: First up was Nikhil Phaniraj speaking about how machine learning and mathematical modelling can be two complementary approaches to better understand vocal convergence in marmosets!

📰A new article about the work of Nikhil Phaniraj, rahel k brügger and Judith Burkart is available on our website. Learn about marmoset pairs! evolvinglanguage.ch/investigating-…

🎉Exciting news! Our lab's first paper, "Vocal labeling of others by nonhuman primates," is now published in @Science! 🐒 Dive into our findings on how marmoset monkeys use vocal labels similar to human names and dialects. Check it out! 1/6 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Beyond happy to see this work published! We show that developmental timing of social brain areas correlates with social and behavioral milestones in marmosets and, as in humans, extends into adulthood. science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…

👀🧠Very exciting new work by paola cerrito and co-authors published today in Science Advances!

📰🐒Marmoset monkeys can combine their calls into sequences, with hierarchical rules! Learn more in the new #article on our website, based on the recently published research of Alexandra B. Bosshard Simon W. Townsend & @BalthasarBickel University of Zurich ! In EN, FR and DE. evolvinglanguage.ch/decoding-the-s…

New paper led by Alexandra B. Bosshard providing further support that primate vocal sequences are structurally more complex than previously thought! With @BalthasarBickel Evolutionary Cognition Group Paola Merlo and Chundra Cathcart NCCR Evolving Language Swiss National Science Foundation UZH Science royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Big congratulations👏🏽 Nikhil Phaniraj for winning the best oral presentation at the Ettore Majorana International School of Ethology this week! 🥳

Had a fantastic time in beautiful Erice at the Recentering Neuroscience on Behaviour workshop with the entire Kempermann Lab! Inspiring talks from a brilliant lineup of scientists exploring the complexity of brain-body-environment interactions.

Fantastic PhD opportunity in Hominin Life History Evolution! Paola leads a young and dynamic lab and as a former officemate, I can say she was (and still is) like an addition advisor to me- I learned so much from her. A brilliant scientist and mentor to do a PhD with! Don’t miss!

Interested in biology and comparative psychology, and working in an interdisciplinary project and research team? I’m advertising two PhD positions on the evolutionary origins of cooperative sociality and communication (start 1.10.) Universität Konstanz Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour 👇 links below!

Interested in working with monkeys?🐒 Curious what baby marmoset monkey babbling means?🍼🗣️ We’re looking for a research assistant or a potential master student that will work with us to answer these questions! Please reach out for more information: [email protected]

Delighted to see our new paper out in Science Advances investigating the evolution of infant directed communication, led by Franziska Wegdell, Johanna Schick and Caroline Fryns UZH Science Comparative Cognition Neuchatel