Bastien Meunier
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Researcher in cognitive ethology, studying the meaning of vocalizations in mangabeys. Postdoc at the University of Neuchâtel @cog_comp_Neuch
Neuchâtel
Joined May 2020
Now live at the COPERNICUS FESTIVAL ‘25: Klaus Zuberbühler on "Atoms of Meaning: What Rules Govern Primate Communication" https://t.co/6AyB0iMUPy Stay tuned because after this Klaus Zuberbühler will debate "How did Language Evolve?" with @cles_ncu's own Przemysław Żywiczyński.
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Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology ( https://t.co/tbEcDOcG61) we document a bizarre tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline ( https://t.co/RN8YC3k9sB) 🧵(1/12)
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It’s finally out!! Our new 🔊study shows that wild geladas seem to recognize prosocial vocal affiliation to victims of aggression! A key insight into the evolution of empathy in primates🐒 @geladas_bridges @PLOS @PLOSONE
https://t.co/xDHiesTovY
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By the way, a new paper is out! Coming from my PhD thesis at @EthosLabo, it's a playback experiment conducted on mangabeys to investigate how they perceive turn-taking rule. Everything is on the title + it's on open access, so no excuses! https://t.co/zNTG6ZavwS
journals.plos.org
Several non-human primate species engage in vocal exchanges of contact calls, throughout the day in peaceful contexts. These vocal exchanges have been compared to human conversations because vocali...
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This study was conducted at @EthosLabo by Stephanie Barbu, Alice Rabiller, Nicolas Dollion, Alban Lemasson and @VirginieDurier.
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In sum, our study shows that social factors known to influence language development have an impact from infancy on a key skill for language learning and socialization in children. 6/6
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Also, singletons looked more at the second speaker after the overlapping and turn-giving situations compared to the turn-taking situation. Infants with siblings did not. 5/6
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Indeed, infants from high-SES families looked more at a speaker after she had overlapped and interrupted a previous one than in the two other situations respecting the overlap avoidance. Infants from the two lower SES categories did not. 4/6
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Our analyses revealed that infants were not equally sensitive. Infants reacted differently to the different situations depending on the family SES and the presence of siblings. 3/6
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We analyzed these looking times according to the infants' sex, the presence of siblings at home, and the family socioeconomic status (SES). These factors are known to influence language development in childhood. 2/6
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We presented video of three conversational situations (turn-giving, turn-taking, and overlapping) to investigate if infants react differently according to turn transitions. We measured looking time of 51 infants after each situation. 1/6
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Our article on infants' perception of turn-taking has been published! 🧵(/6) https://t.co/DTktZvWTwB
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Turn-taking is a universal pattern of human conversations characterized by a fast exchange of turns between speakers and an avoidance of overlaps. Language is embedded in this conversational skill...
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One week ago, I defended my thesis on conversations, in a difficult but exciting comparative approach between human infants and non-human primates. It was an amazing experience! I'm proud to have finished this work, even if it's hard to leave @EthosLabo… Let's find a post-doc!
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First paper of my PhD ! Red-capped mangabeys exchange turn-taking-based contact calls: social status of callers affects the response rate, the position in the exchange, and the response delay. https://t.co/ASTRK9xXOD
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