Taking turns: The ‘missing’ link in language evolution?

Project Information

TURNTAKING

Grant agreement ID: 772000

DOI

10.3030/772000

Project closed

EC signature date 29 October 2018

Start date 1 January 2019

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 999 795,00

EU contribution

€ 1 999 795,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAET OSNABRUECK
Germany

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (20)

Lethal coalitionary attacks of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) on gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the wild

Author(s): Lara Michelle Southern, Tobias Deschner, Simone Pika
Published in: Scientific Reports, 2020, Page(s) 1-10, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-93829-x

Hunting of mammals by central chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) in the Loango National Park, Gabon

Author(s): Harmonie Klein, Gaëlle Bocksberger, Pauline Baas, Sarah Bunel, Erwan Théleste, Simone Pika, Tobias Deschner
Published in: Primates, Issue 62/2, 2021, Page(s) 267-278, ISSN 0032-8332
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-020-00885-4

A new window onto animal culture: The case of chimpanzee gesturing

Author(s): Simone Pika, Tobias Deschner
Published in: Gesture, Issue 18/2-3, 2021, Page(s) 239-260, ISSN 1568-1475
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
DOI: 10.48693/145

Understanding Self-Supervised Learning of Speech Representation via Invariance and Redundancy Reduction

Author(s): Yusuf Brima, Ulf Krumnack, Simone Pika, Gunther Heidemann
Published in: Information, Issue 15, 2025, Page(s) 114, ISSN 2078-2489
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/info15020114

Social negotiation and “accents” in Western lowland gorillas’ gestural communication

Author(s): Jacques Prieur, Katja Liebal, Simone Pika
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-75238-y

Bodies at play: the role of intercorporeality and bodily affordances in coordinating social play in chimpanzees in the wild

Author(s): Bas van Boekholt, Ray Wilkinson, Simone Pika
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1206497

Idiosyncratic gesture use in a mother-infant dyad in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the wild

Author(s): Bas van Boekholt, Isabelle Clark, Nicole J. Lahiff, Kevin C. Lee, Katie E. Slocombe, Claudia Wilke, Simone Pika
Published in: Animal Cognition, Issue 27, 2025, ISSN 1435-9456
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01904-3

Human turn-taking development: A multi-faceted review of turn-taking comprehension and production in the first years of life

Author(s): Samuel H. Cosper, Simone Pika
Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Issue 32, 2025, Page(s) 2669-2695, ISSN 1069-9384
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02749-8

Application of insects to wounds of self and others by chimpanzees in the wild

Author(s): Alessandra Mascaro, Lara Michelle Southern, Tobias Deschner, Simone Pika
Published in: Current Biology, 2022, Page(s) R112-R113, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.12.045

Human turn-taking development: A multi-faceted review of turn-taking comprehension and production in the first years of life

Author(s): Samuel H. Cosper, Simone Pika
Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Issue 32, 2025, ISSN 1069-9384
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/yjad2

Turn-taking skills in mammals: A systematic review into development and acquisition

Author(s): Filipa Abreu, Simone Pika
Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Issue 10, 2024, ISSN 2296-701X
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.987253

Old and New Approaches to Animal Cognition: There Is Not “One Cognition”

Author(s): Juliane Bräuer, Daniel Hanus, Simone Pika, Russell Gray, Natalie Uomini
Published in: Journal of Intelligence, Issue 8/3, 2020, Page(s) 28, ISSN 2079-3200
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jintelligence8030028

Infrastructure of mother-infant interactions across development in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild

Author(s): Bas van Boekholt, Simone Pika
Published in: Evolution and Human Behavior, Issue 46, 2025, Page(s) 106671, ISSN 1090-5138
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106671

Sequence organization of mother–infant interactions in chimpanzees ( <i>Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii</i> ) in the wild

Author(s): Bas van Boekholt, Alexandra B. Bosshard, Simone Pika
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 292, 2025, ISSN 1471-2954
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2025.2271

Inquiring Pant‐Hoots in Wild Chimpanzees and the Role of Social Bonds and Group Cohesion

Author(s): Lara Michelle Southern, Tobias Deschner, Simone Pika
Published in: American Journal of Primatology, Issue 87, 2025, ISSN 0275-2565
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.70092

Insect applications to open wounds by chimpanzees in the wild: first insights from East African chimpanzees

Author(s): Kayla Kolff, Daniela Acosta Flórez, Alessandra Mascaro, Simone Pika
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-16582-5

Intercommunity interactions and killings in central chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) from Loango National Park, Gabon

Author(s): Laura Martínez-Íñigo, Pauline Baas, Harmonie Klein, Simone Pika, Tobias Deschner
Published in: Primates, 2021, ISSN 0032-8332
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-021-00921-x

Intentional gestural communication amongst red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus)

Author(s): Anne Marijke Schel, Axelle Bono, Juliette Aychet, Simone Pika, Alban Lemasson
Published in: Animal Cognition, Issue 25, 2022, Page(s) 1313-1330, ISSN 1435-9448
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-022-01615-7

Home range size in central chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) from Loango National Park, Gabon

Author(s): Laura Martínez-Íñigo, Pauline Baas, Harmonie Klein, Simone Pika, Tobias Deschner
Published in: Primates, 2021, ISSN 0032-8332
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-021-00927-5

Turn-taking in grooming interactions of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the wild: the role of demographic and social factors

Author(s): Kayla Kolff, Simone Pika
Published in: Animal Cognition, Issue 28, 2025, ISSN 1435-9456
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-025-01940-7