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vent:
Meeting “Cognition in Primates”
Date:
June 9, 2015
Category:
Organizer(s):
Hélène Meunier & Jean-Christophe Cassel
Location:
L’escarpe – Université de Strasbourg
Address:
4 rue Pierre Montet, Strasbourg, 67000, France
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This meeting will take place on the 9th and 10th of June 2015 in Strasbourg.

 

Program

 

Tuesday, the 9th of June 2015                                  

08:30-09:00        Registration & Welcome Coffee     

09:00-09:15        Catherine Florentz (Vice-President, University of Strasbourg, F):                             Opening speech

Session Communication                                            

09:15-10:00        Klaus Zuberbühler  (Department of comparative cognition,                                      University of Neuchâtel, CH): Cognition in wild chimpanzees

10:00-10:45        Cat Hobaiter (School of Psychology & Neuroscience,                                              University of St Andrews, UK): Gestural communication in the great                          apes

10:45-11:15        Coffee break

11:15-12.00        Bridget Waller (Department of psychology, Univeristy of                                       Portsmouth, UK): Primate communication through facial expressions

12:00-12:45        Simon Townsend (Institute of Evolutionary Biology and                                          Environmental Studies, University of Zürich, CH): na

12:45-14:15        Lunch                  

Session Cognitive Neurosciences                                         

14:15-15:00        William D. Hopkins (Neuroscience Institute Georgia State                                      University Atlanta & Division of Developmental and Cognitive                                  Neuroscience Yerkes National Primate Research Center Atlanta,                                US): Do chimpanzees have a language ready brain? Insights from                              behavior and neuroimaging studies

15:00-15:45        Emmanuel Procyk (Inserm U846 Stem Cell and Brain Research                                Institute, Bron, F): Frontal brain networks for exploration in primates

15:45-16:15        Coffee break                    

16:15-17:00        Martine Meunier (IMPACT, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center,                               Lyon, F): Social modulation of cognition: lessons from the rhesus macaque

17:00-17:45        Katalin Gothard (Department of Physiology, University of Arizona,                           Tucson, US): The eyes: a Window to the Social Brain

 

Wednesday, the 10th of June 2015                         

Session Social Cognition                                           

09:00-09:45        James R. Anderson (Department of Psychology, Kyoto University                           Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto, J): Image scoring (third-party                              social evaluations) by capuchin monkeys

09:45-10:30        Erica Van de Waal (Anthropological Institute & Museum,                                        University of Zürich, CH):  Field experiments reveal                                               the scope of  social learning in vervet monkeys

10:30-11:00        Coffee break                    

11:00-11:45        Josep Call (School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of                                St Andrews, UK): Cooperation and helping in great apes

11:45-12:30        Julia Fischer (Cognitive Ethology Lab, German Primate                                            Center Göttingen,D): Referential signaling: here, there, everywhere?

12:30-14:00        Lunch                  

14:00-14:45        Joël Fagot (Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology, CNRS and                                     Aix Marseille, F): Lessons from five years of ALDM testing in social                          groups of baboons

14:45-15:30        Hélène Meunier (Primatology Center, University of                                               Strasbourg,F): Research at the Primate Centre of                                                   Strasbourg University

 

Download the poster/program: here

What are the evolutionary roots of humankind’s cognitive abilities, language and social systems? What are the unique cognitive and cultural processes that distinguish humans from their nearest primate relatives? What are the mental mechanisms underlying non-human primate emotions and social behaviours? How, why and in what way nonhuman primates’ communication – gestures, vocalizations and facial expressions – differs from human language? The “Cognition in Primates” Neurex meeting proposes to focus on current research in behaviour, cognition and neurosciences in both apes and monkeys.