Prof Josep Call
Bishop Wardlaw Professor
Research areas
My research focuses on technical and social problem solving in animals with a special emphasis on the great apes. Some of the topics that I am currently investigating include causal and inferential reasoning, tool-use, long-term memory and planning, gestural communication and mindreading. Ultimately, my goal is to contribute to elucidate how cognition evolves.
PhD supervision
- Tina Petersen
- Christina Ruiz-Mendoza
- Eric Vasey
Selected publications
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Open access
Bonobos respond aversively to unequal reward distributions
Radovanović, K., Lorskens, A., Schütte, S., Bräue, J., Call, J., B. M. Haun, D. & J. C. van Leeuwen, E., 16 Apr 2025, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 292, 20242873.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
Schleihauf, H., Sanford, E., Thompson, B., Zhang, S., Rukundo, J., Call, J., Herrmann, E. & Engelmann, J., 30 Oct 2025, In: Science. 390, 6772, p. 521-526Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Chimpanzee turning behavior during spatial navigation in virtual environments
Koopman, S., Allritz, M., McEwen, E., Dolins, F. L., Janmaat, K. R. L., Schweller, K. & Call, J., 1 Feb 2025, In: Animal Behavior and Cognition. 12, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Contrasting two versions of the 4-cup 2-item disjunctive syllogism task in great apes
Jones, B. & Call, J., 2 Jan 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Animal Cognition. 28, 16 p., 3.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) attribute preferences to virtual competitors?
Rapport Munro, E., Allritz, M., Schweller, K., Haun, D. B. M. & Call, J., 9 Sept 2025, In: PLoS One. 20, 9, e0329468.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) mentally represent collaboration? Action-learning and communication in a partnered task
Warren, E., McEwen, E. S. & Call, J., 6 Jun 2025, In: PLoS ONE. 20, 6, 19 p., e0325418.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Do chimpanzees produce context-specific vocal structures in group-specific ways?
Soldati, A., Slocombe, K., Call, J., Zuberbühler, K., Willems, E. & Fedurek, P., 15 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Animal Behaviour. 223, 123185.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Social and individual factors mediate chimpanzee vocal ontogeny
Soldati, A., Fedurek, P., Dezecache, G., Muhumuza, G., Hobaiter, C., Zuberbühler, K. & Call, J., 12 Mar 2025, In: Scientific Reports. 15, 1, 14 p., 8529.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Training primates to forage in virtual 3D environments
McEwen, E. S., Allritz, M., Call, J., Koopman, S., Rapport Munro, E., Bottero Cantuarias, C. J., Menzel, C. R., Dolins, F. L., Janmaat, K. R. L. & Schweller, K., 1 Jan 2025, In: Behavioural Processes. 224, 14 p., 105126.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Chimpanzees demonstrate a behavioural signature of human joint action
Constable, M. D., McEwen, E. S., Knoblich, G., Gibson, C., Addison, A., Nestor, S. & Call, J., 26 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Cognition. 246, 7 p., 105747.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review