Fall 2024 🎃 updates & welcome Elena 👋🏼
After a summer of conferences, an amazing writing retreat in the beautiful swiss mountains and new preprints/publications we have started the fall semester and are very happy to welcome Elena Belli as a new group member. Elena is doing a PhD and part of the NCCR Evolving Language project. She has a background in Ethology and Animal Biology and finished her master at Linköping University in Sweden. She was studying cooperation and prosociality in Barbary macaques. In the past year she has worked at the Inkawu Vervet Project in South Africa investigating risk-taking behaviour in wild vervet monkeys. For her PhD she will explore the relationship between mutual gaze, vocal communication and amygdala anatomy in marmoset and other primate species. In her free time she enjoys doing yoga, long walks, crochet, and reading.
Links to new preprints and publications:
Short-term memory, attentional control and brain size in primates (Royal Society of Open Science): van Schaik, C., P., Jacobs, I., Burkart, J. M., Sauciuc, G.-A., Schuppli, C. & Song, Z. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.231541
Marmosets mutually compensate for differences in rhythms when coordinating vigilance (Plos Computational Biology): Phaniraj, N., Brügger, R. K., Burkart, J. M. https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012104
Same data, different results? Evaluating machine learning approaches for individual identification in animal vocalisations (BioRxiv): Wierucka, K., et al.: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.14.589403v1.abstract
Echoes of self: Understanding acoustic structure and informational content in common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) phee sequences (BioRxiv): Meshinska, K., Burkart J. M., Bell, M. BV, Wierucka, K.: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.14.589400v2.abstract
The ontogeny of play in a highly cooperative monkey, the common marmoset (BioRxiv): Godard, A. M., Burkart, J. M., Brügger, R. K.: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.28.595935v1.abstract
Common marmosets use body posture as multi-functional signal to solicit, maintain, and modify social play (BioRxiv): Adriaense, J. E. C. Ringen, E. J., Ohashi A., Burkart, J. M.: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.14.607991v1.abstract
To merge or not: The onto- and phylogenetic origin of co-representation (PsyArXiv.): Miss, F., Santharuban, L., Willems, E.P., Burkart, J.M.: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/p7v4c
