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Understanding origins of social brains and communication in wild primate

2018/31/D/NZ8/01144

Keywords:

primates sociality communication brain size evolution rhesus macaque

Descriptors:

  • NZ8_3: Animal behaviour
  • NZ4_6: Endocrinology
  • NZ8_12: Zoology

Panel:

NZ8 - Evolutionary and environmental biology: evolution, ecology, population biology, biodiversity, biogeography

Host institution :

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Biologii

woj. wielkopolskie

Other projects carried out by the institution 

Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr Anna Roberts 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 2

Call: SONATA 14 - announced on 2018-09-14

Amount awarded: 1 162 050 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2019-07-11

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2024-07-10

Project duration:: 36 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Pending project

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (16)
  1. Communicative roots of complex sociality and cognition: neuropsychological mechanisms underpinning the processing of social information
    Authors:
    Sam G. B. Roberts , Robin I. M. Dunbar and Anna I. Roberts
    Academic press:
    Philosophical transactions of the royal society b Biological sciences (rok: 2022, tom: 377, strony: 20210295), Wydawca: The Royal Society publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1098/rstb.2021.0295 - link to the publication
  2. Social and ecological complexity is associated with gestural repertoire size of wild chimpanzees
    Authors:
    Sam George Bradley Roberts and Anna Ilona Roberts
    Academic press:
    Integrative Zoology (rok: 2020, tom: 15, strony: 276–292), Wydawca: International Society of Zoological Sciences, Institute of Zoology/Chinese Academy of Sciences and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1111/1749-4877.12423 - link to the publication
  3. Communicative roots of complex sociality and cognition
    Authors:
    Sam George Bradley Roberts, Robin Dunbar, Anna Ilona Roberts
    Academic press:
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (rok: 2022, ), Wydawca: Royal Society Publishing
    Status:
    Submitted
  4. Coordination gestures and sociality of wild chimpanzees
    Authors:
    Anna Ilona Roberts, Sam George Bradley Roberts
    Academic press:
    Animal Behaviour , Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Submitted
  5. The role of facial expressions of emotion in the activation of altruistic conceptual structures and behaviour
    Authors:
    Ljubica Damjanovic, Anna Ilona Roberts, Sam George Bradley Roberts
    Academic press:
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B , Wydawca: Royal Society Publishing
    Status:
    Submitted
  6. Intentional gesturing increases social complexity by allowing recipient's understanding of intentions when it is inhibited by stress
    Authors:
    Anna Ilona Roberts and Sam George Bradley Roberts
    Academic press:
    Philosophical transactions of the royal society b Biological sciences (rok: 2022, tom: 377, strony: 20210305), Wydawca: The Royal Society publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1098/rstb.2021.0305 - link to the publication
  7. Do primates have friends like humans?
    Authors:
    Anna Ilona Roberts
    Academic press:
    Frontiers for Young Minds , Wydawca: Frontiers
    Status:
    Submitted
  8. Social brain hypothesis and communication in bonobos (Pan paniscus)
    Authors:
    Anna Ilona Roberts
    Academic press:
    Fifty-years study at Wamba , Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Submitted
  9. Communicative roots of complex sociality and cognition
    Authors:
    Anna Ilona Roberts and Sam George Bradley Roberts
    Academic press:
    Biological Reviews (rok: 2020, tom: 95 (1), strony: 51-73), Wydawca: Wiley Online Library
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1111/brv.12553 - link to the publication
  10. Communicative roots of complex sociality and cognition: preface to the theme issue
    Authors:
    Sam G. B. Roberts, Robin I. M. Dunbar and Anna I. Roberts
    Academic press:
    Philosophical transactions of the royal society b Biological sciences (rok: 2022, tom: 377, strony: 20220115), Wydawca: The Royal Society publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1098/rstb.2022.0115 - link to the publication
  11. Language as a tool for social bonding: evidence from wild chimpanzee gestural, vocal and bimodal signals
    Authors:
    Ljubica Damjanovic, Sam G. B. Roberts and Anna Ilona Roberts
    Academic press:
    Philosophical transactions of the royal society b Biological sciences (rok: 2022, tom: 377, strony: 20210311), Wydawca: The Royal Society publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1098/rstb.2021.0311 - link to the publication
  12. Intentional gestures facilitate complex sociality of wild chimpanzees
    Authors:
    Anna Ilona Roberts, Sam George Bradley Roberts
    Academic press:
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B , Wydawca: Royal Society Publishing
    Status:
    Submitted
  13. Social bonding as a process of value attribution: Arousal for Language hypothesis
    Authors:
    Anna Ilona Roberts and Sam George Bradley Roberts
    Academic press:
    Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews , Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Submitted
  14. Social bonds of wild chimpanzees are differentiated by arousal, structure and function in gestural communication
    Authors:
    Anna Ilona Roberts and Sam George Bradley Roberts
    Academic press:
    Behavioural Processes , Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Submitted
  15. Intentionality cues and sociality influence repertoire overlap and use of visual, bodily signals in wild chimpanzees
    Authors:
    Anna Ilona Roberts and Sam George Bradley Roberts
    Academic press:
    Animal Behaviour , Wydawca: elsevier
    Status:
    Submitted
  16. Social bonds of wild chimpanzees are differentiated by complexity in gestural communication
    Authors:
    Anna Ilona Roberts, Sam George Bradley Roberts
    Academic press:
    Folia Primatologica , Wydawca: Karger Publishers
    Status:
    Submitted