Prof Josep Call
Professor in Evolutionary Origins of Mind
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
- Christina Ruiz-Mendoza
- Eric Vasey
- Sadie Tenpas
- Kaustabh Baruah
- Emilie Rapport Munro
- Tina Petersen
Selected publications
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Open access
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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Social and individual factors mediate chimpanzee vocal ontogeny
Soldati, A., Fedurek, P., Dezecache, G., Muhumuza, G., Hobaiter, C., Zuberbühler, K. & Call, J., Dec 2025, In: Scientific Reports. 15, 1, 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 (Pan troglodytes) recognise that their guesses could be wrong and can pass a 2-cup disjunctive syllogism task
Jones, B. & Call, J., Jun 2024, In: Biology Letters. 20, 6, 20240051.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
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Chimpanzees use social information to acquire a skill they fail to innovate
van Leeuwen, E. J. C., DeTroy, S. E., Haun, D. B. M. & Call, J., 6 Mar 2024, In: Nature Human Behaviour. 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Exploring cultural techniques in non-human animals: how are flexibility and rigidity expressed at the individual, group, and population level?
Tenpas, S. E., Schweinfurth, M. K. & Call, J., 19 Mar 2024, The evolution of techniques: rigidity and flexibility in use, transmission, and innovation. Charbonneau, M. (ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, p. 235-251 17 p. (Vienna series in theoretical biology).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Infants produce optimally informative points to satisfy the epistemic needs of their communicative partner
Tauzin, T., Call, J. & Gergely, G., 4 Oct 2024, In: Open Mind. 8, p. 1228 1246 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Are you as fooled as I am? Visual illusions in human (Homo) and nonhuman (Sapajus, Gorilla, Pan, Pongo) primate species
Hanus, D., Truppa, V. & Call, J., 1 May 2023, In: Journal of Comparative Psychology. 137, 2, p. 80-89 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Bonobos and chimpanzees remember familiar conspecifics for decades
Lewis, L. S., Wessling, E. G., Kano, F., Stevens, J. M. G., Call, J. & Krupenye, C. N., 26 Dec 2023, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120, 52, 10 p., e2304903120.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review