Prof Josep Call

Professor in Evolutionary Origins of Mind

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 463608

Email

jc276@st-andrews.ac.uk

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

• Africa De Las Heras Martinez
• Sadie Tenpas
• Emma McEwen
• Adrian Soldati
• Elizabeth Warren

Selected publications

• Absolute brain size predicts dog breed differences in executive function

  Horschler, D. J., Hare, B., Call, J., Kaminski, J., Miklosi, A. & MacLean, E. L., Mar 2019, In : Animal Cognition. 22, 2, p. 187-198 12 p.

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• Bargaining in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): the effect of cost, amount of gift, reciprocity and communication

  Bueno-Guerra, N., Voelter, C. J., de las Heras, Á., Colell, M. & Call, J., 27 Jun 2019, In : Journal of Comparative Psychology. Online First

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• Chimpanzees flexibly update working memory contents and show susceptibility to distraction in the self-ordered search task

  Voelter, C. J., Mundry, R., Call, J. & Seed, A. M., 24 Jul 2019, In : Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286, 1907, 9 p.

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• Chimpanzees use observed temporal directionality to learn novel causal relations

  Tennie, C., Voelter, C. J., Vonau, V., Hanus, D., Call, J. & Tomasello, M., 23 Sep 2019, In : Primates. First Online, 8 p.

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• Disentangling great apes? decoy-effect bias in a food choice task

  Sánchez-Amaro, A., Altinok, N., Heintz, C. & Call, J., 1 Aug 2019, In : Animal Behavior and Cognition. 6, 3, p. 213-222 10 p.

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• Establishing an infrastructure for collaboration in primate cognition research

  Altschul, D. M., Beran, M. J., Bohn, M., Call, J., DeTroy, S., Duguid, S. J., Egelkamp, C. L., Fichtel, C., Fischer, J., Flessert, M., Hanus, D., Haun, D. B. M., Haux, L. M., Hernandez-Aguilar, R. A., Herrmann, E., Hopper, L. M., Joly, M., Kano, F., Keupp, S., Melis, A. P., Motes Rodrigo, A., Ross, S. R., Sánchez-Amaro, A., Sato, Y., Schmitt, V., Schweinfurth, M. K., Seed, A. M., Taylor, D., Voelter, C. J., Warren, E., Watzek, J. & on behalf of Many Primates, 24 Oct 2019, In : PLoS One. 14, 10, 19 p., e0223675.

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• Great apes use self-experience to anticipate an agent?s action in a false belief test

  Kano, F., Krupenye, C., Hirata, S., Tomonaga, M. & Call, J., 30 Sep 2019, In : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Latest Articles

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• How prior experience and task presentation modulate innovation in 6-year-old-children

  Ebel, S. J., Hanus, D. & Call, J., Apr 2019, In : Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 180, p. 87-103 17 p.

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• Innovative problem solving in great apes: the role of visual feedback in the floating peanut task

  Ebel, S. J., Schmelz, M., Herrmann, E. & Call, J., Sep 2019, In : Animal Cognition. 22, 5, p. 791-805 15 p.

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• Language origins viewed in spontaneous and interactive vocal rates of human and bonobo infants

  Oller, D. K., Griebel, U., Iyer, S. N., Jhang, Y., Warlaumont, A. S., Dale, R. & Call, J., 2 Apr 2019, In : Frontiers in Psychology. 10, 18 p., 729.

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