My research interest lies in bridging the gap between animal communication and human language, to better understand the evolutionary origins of the latter. During my PhD thesis, I studied the developmental and evolutive origins of conversational turn-taking in a comparative approach between human infants and non-human primates (red-capped mangabeys). Now I’m focusing on the study of wild sooty mangabeys within the Taï Monkey Project (Taï National Park, Ivory Coast), as a collaborator of the NCCR Evolving Language consortium (Animal Meaning). I investigate in what extent sooty mangabeys can generate and infer meaning from intentions, perceive and communicate external events, create and transmit communicative conventions.

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Université de Neuchâtel
Institut de Biologie
Cognition Comparée
Rue Emile-Argand 11
2000 Neuchâtel

Bureau B23, bâtiment G