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A universal preference for animate agents in hominids (2024)
Journal Article
Brocard, S., Wilson, V. A., Berton, C., Zuberbühler, K., & Bickel, B. (2024). A universal preference for animate agents in hominids. iScience, 27(6), Article 109996. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109996

When conversing, humans instantaneously predict meaning from fragmentary and ambiguous mspeech, long before utterance completion. They do this by integrating priors (initial assumptions about the world) with contextual evidence to rapidly decide on t... Read More about A universal preference for animate agents in hominids.

Does the primate face cue personality? (2023)
Journal Article
Wilson, V. A., & Masilkova, M. (2023). Does the primate face cue personality?. Personality Neuroscience, 6, Article e7. https://doi.org/10.1017/pen.2023.5

When looking at others, primates primarily focus on the face - detecting the face first and looking at it longer than other parts of the body. This is because primate faces, even without expression, convey trait information crucial for navigating soc... Read More about Does the primate face cue personality?.

The use of gaze to study cognition: limitations, solutions, and applications to animal welfare (2023)
Journal Article
Wilson, V. A., Bethell, E. J., & Nawroth, C. (2023). The use of gaze to study cognition: limitations, solutions, and applications to animal welfare. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, Article 1147278. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1147278

The study of gaze responses, typically using looking time paradigms, has become a popular approach to improving our understanding of cognitive processes in non-verbal individuals. Our interpretation of data derived from these paradigms, however, is c... Read More about The use of gaze to study cognition: limitations, solutions, and applications to animal welfare.

The evolutionary origins of syntax: Event cognition in nonhuman primates (2022)
Journal Article
Wilson, V. A., Zuberbühler, K., & Bickel, B. (2022). The evolutionary origins of syntax: Event cognition in nonhuman primates. Science Advances, 8(25), Article eabn8464. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abn8464

Languages tend to encode events from the perspective of agents, placing them first and in simpler forms than patients. This agent bias is mirrored by cognition: Agents are more quickly recognized than patients and generally attract more attention. Th... Read More about The evolutionary origins of syntax: Event cognition in nonhuman primates.

Testing the Relationship Between Looking Time and Choice Preference in Long-tailed Macaques (2021)
Journal Article
Wilson, V. A. D., Kade, C., & Fischer, J. (2021). Testing the Relationship Between Looking Time and Choice Preference in Long-tailed Macaques. Animal behavior and cognition, 8(3), 351-375. https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.08.03.03.2021

Visual bias in social cognition studies is often interpreted to indicate preference, yet it is difficult to elucidate whether this translates to social preference. Moreover, visual bias is often framed in terms of surprise or recognition. It is thus... Read More about Testing the Relationship Between Looking Time and Choice Preference in Long-tailed Macaques.

Early social rearing, the V1A arginine vasopressin receptor genotype, and autistic traits in chimpanzees (2021)
Journal Article
Weiss, A., Wilson, V. A., & Hopkins, W. D. (2021). Early social rearing, the V1A arginine vasopressin receptor genotype, and autistic traits in chimpanzees. Autism Research, 14(9), 1843-1853. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2550

Previous studies found associations between autism-related phenotypes and both rearing and V1A arginine vasopressin receptor (AVPR1A) genotypes. We tested whether these exposures as well as their interaction were associated with autism-related phenot... Read More about Early social rearing, the V1A arginine vasopressin receptor genotype, and autistic traits in chimpanzees.