ReviewProceedings. Biological sciences2018
Taking turns: bridging the gap between human and animal communication.
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66 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 213 citations in OpenAlex.
- A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis of the development of turn taking in adult-child vocal interactions.Child development · 2022Pooled it
- When grooming stalls: Assessing communicative repair, negotiation, and progressivity in chimpanzees.iScience · 2026Article
- The Vocal Repertoire of Gray-Cheeked Mangabeys (Lophocebus albigena) in the Bugoma Forest Reserve, Uganda.American journal of primatology · 2026Article
- Hallmarks of social action in the vocal turn-taking of wild common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus).Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Correlating ultrasonic communication with behavior in a small-scale rat colony living in a naturalistic habitat.iScience · 2026Article
- Turn-taking in grooming interactions of sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) in the wild.Animal cognition · 2026Article
- Social familiarity strengthens neural and vocal responses to conspecific calls in zebra finches.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Editorial: Animals and social interaction.Frontiers in sociology · 2026Article
- Human turn-taking development: A multi-faceted review of turn-taking comprehension and production in the first years of life.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Review
- Construing Complex Referentiality in Interspecies Interaction: Embodiment and Biosemiotics.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- An interdisciplinary linked-lives approach to individual differences in social behaviour.Nature human behaviour · 2025Review
- Vocal taking turns is premature at birth and improved by the postnatal phonetic environment in marmosets.National science review · 2025Article
- The Development of Turn-Taking Skills in Typical Development and Autism.Cognitive science · 2025Article
- Advertisement vocalizations support home-range defense in the singing mouse.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Coordination and persistence of aggressive visual communication in Siamese fighting fish.Cell reports · 2025Article
- Temporal regularities of vocal exchange in Java sparrows.PloS one · 2025Article
- Mapping vocal interactions in space and time differentiates signal broadcast versus signal exchange in meerkat groups.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Marmosets mutually compensate for differences in rhythms when coordinating vigilance.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- Temporal scaling of motor cortical dynamics reveals hierarchical control of vocal production.Nature neuroscience · 2024Article
- Telemetry reveals rapid duel-driven canary song plasticity in a competitive social environment.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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4 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Language, humans' most distinctive trait, still remains a 'mystery' for evolutionary theory. It is underpinned by a universal infrastructure-cooperative turn-taking-which has been suggested as an ancient mechanism bridging the existing gap between the articulate human species and their inarticulate primate cousins. However, we know remarkably little about turn-taking systems of non-human animals, and methodological confounds have often prevented meaningful cross-species comparisons. Thus, the extent to which cooperative turn-taking is uniquely human or represents a homologous and/or analogous trait is currently unknown. The present paper draws attention to this promising research avenue by providing an overview of the state of the art of turn-taking in four animal taxa-birds, mammals, insects and anurans. It concludes with a new comparative framework to spur more research into this research domain and to test which elements of the human turn-taking system are shared across species and taxa.
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