ABACUS: Advancing Behavioral and Cognitive Understanding of Speech

Research output

Research output per year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2020

• 27 Article
• 11 Meeting abstract (Book)
• 11 Conference paper
• 5 Poster
• 7 More
  • 4 Unpublished abstract
  • 2 Chapter
  • 1 Book/Film/Article review

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2020

  Evolutionary Dynamics Do Not Motivate a Single-Mutant Theory of Human Language

  De Boer, B., Thompson, B., Ravignani, A. & Boeckx, C., 16 Jan 2020, In: Scientific Reports. 10, 451, p. 1-9 9 p., 451.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Language 100%
  • Mutation 70%
  • Cognitive Science 38%
  • Population Density 29%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

  123 Downloads (Pure)
• 2018

  Evolution of Speech

  De Boer, B. & Verhoef, T., 2018, The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics, second edition. Rueschemeyer, S-A. & Gaskell, M. G. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 841-864 24 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Specialist › peer-review

  File
  109 Downloads (Pure)

• Phonology and Evolution

  De Boer, B., 2018, The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory. Hannahs, S. J. & Bosch, A. R. K. (eds.). Routledge, p. 617-635 19 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• 2017

  How small could a pup sound? The physical bases of signaling body size in harbor seals

  Ravignani, A., Gross, S., Garcia, M., Rubio-Garcia, A. & De Boer, B., 1 Aug 2017, In: Current Zoology. 63, 4, p. 457-465 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Phoca vitulina 100%
  • pups 71%
  • body size 60%
  • acoustics 34%
  • allometry 28%
  9 Citations (Scopus)

  58 Downloads (Pure)

• Humans identify negative (but not positive) arousal in silver fox vocalizations: implications for the adaptive value of interspecific eavesdropping

  Filippi, P., Gogoleva, S. S., Volodina, E. V., Volodin, I. A. & De Boer, B., Aug 2017, In: Current Zoology. 63, 4, p. 445-456 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Vulpes vulpes 100%
  • vocalization 87%
  • foxes 41%
  • human behavior 25%
  • center of gravity 24%
  13 Citations (Scopus)

  41 Downloads (Pure)

• Humans recognize emotional arousal in vocalizations across all classes of terrestrial vertebrates: evidence for acoustic universals

  Filippi, P., V. CONGDON, J., HOANG, J., LIU BOWLING, D., REBER, S., PAŠUKONIS, A., HOESCHELE, M., OCKLENBURG, S., De Boer, B., STURDY, C. B., NEWEN, A. & Güntürkün, O., 26 Jul 2017, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284, 1859, p. 1-9 9 p., 20170990.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  File

  • Gravity 100%
  • vocalization 92%
  • Acoustics 88%
  • Arousal 87%
  • acoustics 85%
  102 Citations (Scopus)

  114 Downloads (Pure)

• More than words (and faces): evidence for a Stroop effect of prosody in emotion word processing

  Filippi, P., OCKLENBURG, S., LIU BOWLING, D., HEEGE, L., Güntürkün, O., NEWEN, A. & De Boer, B., 2017, In: Cognition and Emotion. 31, 5, p. 879-891 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  35 Citations (Scopus)

  202 Downloads (Pure)

• Response to Lieberman on “Monkey vocal tracts are speech-ready”

  Fitch, W. T., De Boer, B., Mathur, N. & Ghazanfar, A., 5 Jul 2017, In: Science Advances. 3, 7, p. e1701859 4 p., e1701859.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Macaca 100%
  • monkeys 81%
  • methodology 8%
  8 Citations (Scopus)

  29 Downloads (Pure)

• Signal dimensionality and the emergence of combinatorial structure

  Little, H. R., Eryilmaz, K. & De Boer, B., 1 Nov 2017, In: Cognition. 168, 1, p. 1-15 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  File

  • Language 100%
  • Linguistics 70%
  • Hand 47%
  • Topology 47%
  • Overcrowding 40%
  26 Citations (Scopus)

  71 Downloads (Pure)

• Structure and abstraction in phonetic computation: Learning to generalise among concurrent acquisition problems

  Thompson, B. & De Boer, B., 26 Jun 2017, In: Journal of Language Evolution. 2, 1, p. 94-112 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Phonetics 100%
  • phonetics 85%
  • abstraction 82%
  • Evolutionary 68%
  • Learning 58%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

  35 Downloads (Pure)
• 2016

  A Neo-Peircean Framework for Experimental Semiotics

  Wilson, J. & Little, H. R., 20 Jun 2016, 2nd Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Meeting abstract (Book)

• Catergory learning in audition, vision, and touch

  van der Ham, S., De Boer, B. & Thompson, B., 29 Feb 2016, Proceedings of the 11the Evolution of Language International Conference (EVOLANG XI). Roberts, S., Cuskley, C., McCrohon, L., Barceló-Coblijn, L., Feher, O. & Verhoef, T. (eds.). New Orleans: EVOLANG, 2 p. 38

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper

  • Touch 100%
  • Hearing 89%
  • Ocular Vision 83%
  • Learning 72%
  • Language 64%

• Culture Shapes the Evolution of Cognition

  Thompson, W., Kirby, S. & Smith, K., 1 Apr 2016, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 113, 16

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  92 Citations (Scopus)

• Did the pressure for discrimination trigger the emergence of combinatorial structure?

  Little, H. R. & De Boer, B., 20 Jun 2016, 2nd Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics. p. 109-110 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Meeting abstract (Book)

  • Experiments 100%
  • Infrared radiation 40%
  • Textures 37%
  • Color 33%
  • Internet 31%

• Differing signal-meaning dimensionalities facilitates the emergence of structure.

  Little, H. R., Eryilmaz, K. & De Boer, B., 2016, The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th international conference (EvoLangXI). . New Orleans, USA, 8 p. 4

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper

  • Signal systems 100%
  • Infrared radiation 71%
  • Trajectories 57%
  • Topology 55%
  • Sensors 42%

• Emergence of Signal Structure: Effects of Duration Constraints.

  Little, H. R., Eryilmaz, K. & De Boer, B., 2016, The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th international conference (EvoLangXI).. Roberts, S., Cuskley, C., McCrohon, L., Feher, O., Barcelo-Coblijn, L. & Verhoef, T. (eds.). New Orleans, p. 468-470 2 p. 25

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Meeting abstract (Book)

  • Redundancy 100%
  • Experiments 83%
  • Trajectories 82%
  • Pressure effects 78%
  • Textures 47%

• Humans recognize vocal expressions of emotional states across all classes of terrestrial vertebrates: Evidence for acoustic universals

  Filippi, P. & De Boer, B., 2016.

  Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Unpublished abstract

• HUMANS RECOGNIZE VOCAL EXPRESSIONS OF EMOTIONAL STATES UNIVERSALLY ACROSS SPECIES

  Filippi, P., V. CONGDON, J., HOANG, J., LIU BOWLING, D., REBER, S., PAŠUKONIS, A., HOESCHELE, M., OCKLENBURG, S., De Boer, B., STURDY, C. B., NEWEN, A. & GÜNTÜRKÜN, O., 2016, The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11). Roberts, S., Cuskley, C., McCrohon, L., Barcelo-Coblijn, L., Feher, O. & Verhoef, T. (eds.). EvoLang Scientific Committee, 3 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper

  Open Access

  • vocalization 100%
  • center of gravity 76%
  • acoustics 73%
  • Ailuropoda melanoleuca 53%
  • Hylidae 45%

• Iconicity and the Emergence of Combinatorial Structure in Language

  Verhoef, T., Kirby, S. & De Boer, B., 2016, In: Cognitive Science. 40, 8, p. 1969-1994 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Language 100%
  • Linguistics 39%
  • cognitive learning 25%
  • trend 20%
  • Reproduction 20%
  29 Citations (Scopus)

• Language evolution needs its own journal

  dediu, D. & De Boer, B., 24 Feb 2016, In: Journal of Language Evolution. 1, 1, p. 1-6 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Evolution of Language 100%
  • Language 65%
  • Origin of Language 53%
  • Empirical Study 42%
  20 Citations (Scopus)

• Learning To Learn From Similar Others: Approximate Bayesian Computation Through Babbling

  Thompson, B. & Rasilo, H., 2016, The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11). Roberts, S., Cuskley, C., McCrohon, L., Barceló-Coblijn, O., Feher, O. & Verhoef, T. (eds.). EVOLANG, 8 p. 136

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › Research

  Open Access

  • Linguistics 100%
  • Acoustic waves 33%

• Modelling the social dynamics that lead to the emergence of sign languages

  de Vos, C., Roberts, S. & Thompson, B., 2016.

  Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Poster

• Multimodal processing of emotional meanings: A hypothesis on the adaptive value of prosody

  Filippi, P., Ocklenburg, S., LIU BOWLING, D., HEEGE, L., NEWEN, A., GÜNTÜRKÜN, O. & De Boer, B., 2016.

  Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Unpublished abstract

  • Expressed Emotion 100%
  • Emotions 82%
  • Facial Expression 81%
  • Language 54%
  • Stroop Test 43%

• Nahran rhannmamz: Language evolution in an online zombie apocalypse game

  Little, H. R., 2016, CreativEvolang: Creativity and innovation in the Evolution of Language. 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Meeting abstract (Book)

  • Glossaries 100%
  • Linguistics 97%
  • Brain 85%
  • Productivity 82%
  • Communication 51%

• Prosody and cross-situational statistics: a study on sound-meaning mapping

  Filippi, P. & Gingras, B., 2016.

  Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Poster

• Seeking Temporal Predictability in Speech: Comparing Statistical Approaches on 18 World Languages

  Jadoul, Y., Ravignani, A., Thompson, B., Filippi, P. & De Boer, B., 2 Dec 2016, In: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 10, 15 p., 586.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Language 100%
  • Acoustics 12%
  • Cluster Analysis 11%
  • Cues 10%
  164 Downloads (Pure)

• Seeking temporal predictability in speech: Comparing statistical approaches on 18 world languages.

  Jadoul, Y., Ravignani, A., Thompson, B., Filippi, P. & De Boer, B., 29 Sep 2016.

  Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Poster

  File

  • regularity 100%
  • segmentation 20%
  • statistical method 19%
  • time 12%
  • event 10%
  30 Citations (Scopus)

  106 Downloads (Pure)

• Using HMMs to Attribute Structure to Artificial Languages

  Eryilmaz, K., Little, H. R. & De Boer, B., 2016, The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th international conference (EvoLangXI). Roberts, S., Cuskley, C., McCrohon, L., Barcelo-Coblijn, L., Feher, O. & Verhoef, T. (eds.). p. 407-409 3 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Meeting abstract (Book)

  Open Access

• What Pinnipeds Have to Say about Human Speech, Music, and the Evolution of Rhythm

  Ravignani, A., Fitch, W. T., Hanke, F. D., Heinrich, T., Hurgitsch, B., Kotz, S. A., Scharff, C., Stoeger, A. S. & De Boer, B., 20 Jun 2016, In: Frontiers in Neuroscience. 10, p. 1-9 9 p., 274.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Caniformia 100%
  • Music 63%
  • Hominidae 18%
  • Birds 15%
  • Primates 13%
  43 Citations (Scopus)

• Word position matters for school-age children: a study on memory constraints in a cross-situational word learning task”. Fifth Implicit Learning Seminar, Lancaster, UK, June 2016.

  Filippi, P. & Laaha, 2016.

  Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Poster
• 2015

  Acoustic models of orangutan hand-assisted alarm calls

  De Boer, B., Wich, S., hardus, M. & Lameira, A., 2015, In: Journal of Experimental Biology. 218, 6, p. 907-914

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Pongo 100%
  • Pongo pygmaeus 86%
  • antipredatory behavior 81%
  • alarm 67%
  • Acoustics 64%
  16 Citations (Scopus)

• A new artificial signal-space proxy for investigating the emergence of structure and categories in speech

  Little, H. R., Eryilmaz, K. & De Boer, B., 14 Aug 2015, Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. . Glasgow, Scotland: The University of Glasgow, Vol. 18. 5 p. 0031

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper

  • Feedback 100%
  • Speech analysis 92%
  • Linguistics 74%
  • Infrared radiation 68%
  • Sensors 40%

• A pitch interval typical of Infant-directed speech facilitates word learning when combined with cross-situational statistics.

  Filippi, P. & gingras, B., 2015.

  Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Unpublished abstract

  • Cues 100%
  • Statistics 88%
  • Learning 84%
  • Language 36%
  • Semantics 23%

• Biology, culture, evolution and the cognitive nature of sound systems

  De Boer, B., 2015, In: Journal of Phonetics. 53, p. 79-87 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Sound System 100%
  • Cultural Evolution 75%
  • biology 62%
  • Language 58%
  • Biological Evolution 50%
  6 Citations (Scopus)

• Cognitive bias for learning speech sounds from a continuous signal space seems non-linguistic

  Van Der Ham, A. & De Boer, B., 18 Oct 2015, In: i-Perception. 6, 5, 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Cognitive Bias 100%
  • Speech Sounds 93%
  • Phonetics 92%
  • Acoustic waves 57%
  • Learning 54%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• Evolution of speech-specific cognitive adaptations

  De Boer, B., 2015, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 6, 4 p., 1505.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Language 100%
  • evidence 35%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Evolving perceptual biases for antisynchrony: A form of temporal coordination beyond synchrony

  Ravignani, A., 2015, In: Frontiers in Neuroscience. 9, 6 p., 339.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Form Perception 100%
  • Animals 32%
  13 Citations (Scopus)

• Experimental Evidence on the Emergence of Phonological Structure

  Van Der Ham, A., Little, H. R., Eryilmaz, K. & De Boer, B., 20 Jul 2015, The 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-13): Book of abstracts. 1 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Meeting abstract (Book)

  • Learning 100%
  • Experiment 84%
  • Linguistics 76%
  • Cultural Transmission 73%
  • Language 67%

• Linguistic Modality Affects the Creation of Structure and Iconicity in Signals

  Little, H. R., Eryilmaz, K. & De Boer, B., 25 Jul 2015, Proceedings of The 37th Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting.. Noelle, D. C., Dale, R., Warlaumont, A. S., Yoshimi, J., Matlock, T., Jennigs, C. D. & Maglio, P. P. (eds.). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, Vol. 37. p. 1392-1398 6 p. 244

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper

  • Linguistics 100%
  • Hidden Markov models 53%
  • Infrared radiation 45%
  • Feedback 33%
  • Sensors 27%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

• Measuring teaching through hormones and time series analysis: Towards a comparative framework

  Ravignani, A. & Sonnweber, R., 2015, In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 38, p. 40-41 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Pupil 100%
  • Teaching 81%
  • Neurotransmitter Agents 80%
  • Observation 65%
  • Hormones 64%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• More than one way to see it: Individual heuristics in avian visual computation

  Ravignani, A., Fitch, W. T., Westphal-Fitch, G., Aust, U. & Schlumpp, M. M., 2015, In: Cognition. 143, p. 13-24

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Heuristics 100%
  • heuristics 73%
  • Form Perception 40%
  • Comparative Research 33%
  • Vocalization 31%
  27 Citations (Scopus)

• Non-adjacent visual dependency learning in chimpanzees

  Ravignani, A., Fitch, W. T. & Sonnweber, R., 2015, In: Animal Cognition. 18, 3, p. 733-745 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Pan troglodytes 100%
  • learning 73%
  • stimulus 65%
  • Learning 59%
  • Pan paniscus 45%
  57 Citations (Scopus)

• Optimal Bias Recovery Conditions in Statistical Learning Experiments

  Thompson, B., 2015.

  Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Poster

• Rank-dependent grooming patterns and cortisol alleviation in Barbary macaques

  Sonnweber, R., Ravignani, A., Stobbe, N., Schiestl, G., Wallner, B. & Fitch, W. T., 2015, In: American Journal of Primatology. 77, 6, p. 688-700 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • grooming 100%
  • grooming (animal behavior) 77%
  • Macaca 70%
  • cortisol 58%
  • glucocorticoids 28%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

• Statistical learning of categories is not specialized for speech

  van der Ham, S. & De Boer, B., 27 Jun 2015.

  Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Unpublished abstract

  • Audition 100%
  • Acoustic waves 70%
  • Experiments 32%

• Universality in Cultural Transmission

  Thompson, B., 2015, Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Satellite Event: The Evolution of Phonetic Capabilities). Little, H. (ed.). p. 30-35 5 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper

  Open Access
• 2014

  Chorusing, synchrony and the evolutionary functions of rhythm

  Ravignani, A., 2014, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 5, 15 p., 1118.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Music 100%
  • animal 80%
  • music 63%
  • Primates 55%
  • Fireflies 50%
  115 Citations (Scopus)

• Computational modeling of acquisition of vocal imitation using interaction between a virtual infant and a human participant

  Rasilo, H., 2014, AMLaP XX, Edinburgh.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Meeting abstract (Book) › Research

  • Acoustics 100%
  • Acoustic waves 72%
  • Feedback 38%
  • Speech communication 38%
  • Teaching 26%

• Experiments in the Emergence of Combinatorial Structure: Considering the Limitations of Articulation Space Proxies

  Little, H. R., 28 Jan 2014, Nijmegen Lectures. Nijmegen, (Nijmegen Lectures).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Meeting abstract (Book)

  • Experiments 100%
  • Linguistics 88%
  • Design of experiments 87%
  • Trajectories 65%

• From the Savannah to the Cloud: Blogging Evolutionary Linguistics research

  Littauer, R., Roberts, S., Winters, J., Bailes, R., Pleyer, M. & Little, H. R., 17 Mar 2014, The Past, Present and Future of Language Evolution Research Student Volume of the 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language.. The Past, P. (ed.). Tokyo: Evolang9 Organizing Committee, p. 121-133 12 p. (Research Student Volume of the International Conference on the Evolution of Language.; vol. 9).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper

  • linguistics 100%
  • Internet 70%
  • methodology 19%
  • time 13%