Prof Josep Call

Bishop Wardlaw Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3608

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

• Kaustabh Baruah
• Christina Ruiz-Mendoza
• Eric Vasey

Selected publications

• Open access

  Behavioural manifestations of human-directed social motivation in dogs

  Boada, M., Hernández-Lloreda, M. V., Colmenares, F. & Call, J., 3 Feb 2026, In: Scientific Reports. 16, 12 p., 4649.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Do great apes know each other's names? Probing great ape comprehension of social vocal labels

  Lewis, L. S., Kano, F., Stevens, J. M. G., DuBois, J. G., Call, J. & Krupenye, C., 1 Feb 2026, In: Animal Behavior and Cognition. 13, 1, p. 1-21

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  EVApeCognition: an 18-year dataset of great ape cognition

  Sanchez-Amaro, A., Wijk, S., Molenaar, C., Abuova, A., Mujica-Manrique, L., Leisterer-Peoples, S., Beheim, B., Maurits, L., Albiach-Serrano, A., Allritz, M., Altınok, N., Amici, F., Auersperg, A., Aureli, F., Bandini, E., Barth, J., Benziad, L., Bläsing, B., Bohn, M. & Bourjade, M. & 88 others, Bräuer, J., Broihanne, M.-H., Brosnan, S., Bueno-Guerra, N., Bugnyar, T., Buttelmann, D., Buttelmann, F., Cacchione, T., Carpenter, M., Colmenares, F., Crockford, C., Cronin, K., de las Heras, Á., De Marco, A., DeTroy, S., Deufour, V., Duguid, S., Dunbar, R., Eckert, J., Engelmann, J., Fagot, J., Fischer, J., Forss, S., Funk, M., Gergely, G., Greenberg, J., Großmann, J., Grüneisen, S., Halina, M., Hanus, D., Heilbronner, S., Heintz, C., Hepach, R., Herrmann, E., Hirata, S., Hribar, A., Janzen, G., Kaminski, J., Kanngiesser, P., Kano, F., Kirchhofer, K., Knofe, H., Kopp, K., Krupenye, C., Laumer, I., Levinson, S., Liszkowski, U., Manrique, H., Martin-Ordas, G., McEwen, E., Moore, R., Munar, E., Nadal, M., Nawroth, C., Nolte, S., Pelé, M., Potì, P., Rakoczy, H., Riedel, J., Romain, A., Rossano, F., Russell, Y., Sabbatini, G., Schäfer, M., Scheumann, M., Schmelz, M., Schmid, B., Schmitt, V., Sebastián-Enesco, C., Seed, A., Suda-King, C., Tauzin, T., Tempelmann, S., Tennie, C., Truppa, V., Uher, J., Vaish, A., van Leeuwen, E., Visalberghi, E., Völter, C., Vonau, V., Wascher, C., Wittig, R., Wolf, W., Tomasello, M., Liebal, K., Call, J. & Haun, D., 1 Jun 2026, In: Scientific Data. 13, 805.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Local specialists’ experience and skills in animal behaviour studies: insights from wild chimpanzee field assistants

  Soldati, A., Fedurek, P., Eleuteri, V., Zuberbühler, K., Call, J., Muhumuza, G., Mbotella, M., Adue, S., Boscou, C., Asua, J., Lomoro, D., Muhanguzi, G. & Dezecache, G., 31 Jan 2026, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 293, 2063, 20250997.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Orang-utans and chimpanzees cooperate strategically based on the partner’s incentives

  Völter, C. J., Felsche, E., Call, J. & Rossano, F., Apr 2026, In: Animal Behaviour. 234, p. 1-13 13 p., 123512.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• 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

• Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition

  Alessandroni, N., Altschul, D., Baumgartner, H. A., Bazhydai, M., Brosnan, S. F., Byers-Heinlein, K., Call, J., Chittka, L., Elsherif, M., Espinosa, J., Freeman, M. S., Gjoneska, B., Güntürkün, O., Huber, L., Krasheninnikova, A., Mazza, V., Miller, R., Moreau, D., Nawroth, C. & Pronizius, E. & 8 others, Ruiz-Fernández, S., Schwing, R., Šlipogor, V., Visser, I., Vonk, J., Yeager, J., Zettersten, M. & Prétôt, L., 1 Feb 2025, In: Nature Human Behaviour. 9, p. 240–242

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

• Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus) chase prey around obstacles in virtual environments

  Rapport Munro, E., Koopman, S. E., Anderson, S. P., Schweller, K., Röhr, H., Kleiman-Weiner, M., Lewis, R., Klein, B., Allritz, M., Robinson, L. M., Dolins, F. L. & Call, J., 1 Aug 2025, In: Journal of Comparative Psychology. 139, 3, p. 155-177 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  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. 521-526

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  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, 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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