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EVApeCognition: An 18-Year Dataset of Great Ape Cognition.
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Alejandro Sánchez-AmaroDivision of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK. alejandro.sanchezamaro@stir.ac.uk.
Sonja J Ebel van WijkDepartment of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Carin MolenaarDepartment of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Akzira AbuovaDepartment of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Lizbeth Mujica-ManriqueDepartment of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Sarah M Leisterer-PeoplesDepartment of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Bret BeheimDepartment of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Luke MauritsDepartment of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Anna Albiach-SerranoEthology and Animal Welfare Section, Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU, CEU Universities, Valencia, Spain.
Matthias AllritzDepartment of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Nazli AltınokDepartment of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
Federica AmiciDepartment of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Alice Mi AuerspergDepartment of Interdisciplinary Life Sciences/Messerli Research Institute/Comparative Cognition Unit, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria.
Filippo AureliInstituto de Neuroetología, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico.
Elisa BandiniDepartment of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, The University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Jochen BarthDepartment Networks and Transfer, Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology, Dresden, Germany.
Leïla BenziadDepartment of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Bettina E BläsingDepartment of Sport Science, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Manuel BohnDepartment of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Marie BourjadeLaboratoire CLLE, UMR CNRS 5263, Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès, Institut Universitaire de France, Toulouse, France.
Juliane BräuerDepartment for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany.
Marie-Hélène BroihanneLaRGE EM Strasbourg, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
Sarah F BrosnanDepartment of Psychology, Neuroscience Institute, and Language Research Center, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Nereida Bueno-GuerraDepartamento de Psicología, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain.
Thomas BugnyarDepartment of Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
David ButtelmannDepartment of Developmental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Frances ButtelmannCenter for Lifespan Developmental Science (CELISE), Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany.
Trix CacchioneDevelopmental Psychology, Institute of Primary Education, University of Teacher Education FHNW, Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland.
Malinda CarpenterSchool of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
Fernando ColmenaresDepartamento de Psicobiología y Metodología en Ciencias del Comportamiento, Facultad de Psicología, Campus de Somosaguas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Catherine CrockfordThe Ape Social Mind Lab, Institute for Cognitive Sciences Marc Jeannerod, CNRS, Lyon, France.
Katherine A CroninAnimal Welfare Science Program, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, IL, USA.
África de Las HerasDepartment of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Arianna De MarcoFondazione Ethoikos, Radicondoli, Italy.
Sarah E DeTroyDepartment of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Valérie DufourLaboratoire de Psychology Sociale et Cognitive, University of Clermont Auvergne & Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Shona DuguidSchool of Education, Language and Psychology, York St John University, York, UK.
Robin I M DunbarDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Johanna EckertDepartment for the Ecology of Animal Societies, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany.
Jan M EngelmannDepartment of Psychology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Joel FagotCentre de Recherche en Psychologie et Neurosciences (CRPN), CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.
Julia FischerCognitive Ethology Lab, German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Goettingen, Germany.
Sofia Ingrid Fredrika ForssDepartment of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, The University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Martina FunkZoologisches Institut der Universität Zürich, Abteilung Ethologie und Wildforschung, Zürich, Switzerland.
György GergelyCognitive Development Center, Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Vienna, Austria.
Julia R GreenbergDepartment of Psychology, University of Wisconsin- Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Johannes GroßmannDepartment of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Sebastian GrüneisenFaculty of Education, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
Marta HalinaDepartment of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Daniel HanusDepartment of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Sarah R HeilbronnerDepartment of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Christophe HeintzCognitive Development Center, Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Vienna, Austria.
Robert HepachDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Esther HerrmannCentre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology, School of Psychology, Sport and Health Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK.
Satoshi HirataWildlife Research Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Alenka HribarDepartment of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Gabriele JanzenBehavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Juliane KaminskiCentre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology, School of Psychology, Sport and Health Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK.
Patricia KanngiesserSchool of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.
Fumihiro KanoCenter for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
Katharina C KirchhoferDepartment of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Hagen KnofeDepartment of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Kathrin S KoppDepartment of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Christopher KrupenyeDepartment of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Isabelle Barbara LaumerDevelopment and Evolution of Cognition Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany.
Stephen C LevinsonLanguage Development Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Ulf LiszkowskiDevelopmental Psychology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Héctor M ManriqueDepartamento de Psicología y Sociología, Universidad de Zaragoza, Teruel, Spain.
Gema Martin-OrdasDivision of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.
Emma Suvi McEwenSchool of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
Richard T MooreDepartment of Philosophy, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
Enric MunarHuman Evolution and Cognition Research Group (EvoCog), University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Marcos NadalHuman Evolution and Cognition Research Group (EvoCog), University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Christian NawrothWorking group "Animal Behaviour & Welfare", Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany.
Suska NolteDepartment of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Marie PeléAnthropo-Lab ETHICS EA 7446, Université Catholique de Lille, Lille, France.
Patrizia PotìInstitute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy.
Hannes RakoczyDepartment of Developmental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Julia RiedelWild Chimpanzee Foundation, Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Amélie RomainBureau d'études AKONGO, Nantes, France.
Federico RossanoDepartment of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
Yvan I RussellDepartment of Psychology, Middlesex University, London, UK.
Gloria SabbatiniInstitute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy.
Marie SchäferWilhelm Wundt Institute for Psychology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
Marina ScheumannInstitute of Zoology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
Martin SchmelzDepartment of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Benjamin SchmidDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Vanesa SchmittCognitive Ethology Lab, German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Goettingen, Germany.
Carla Sebastián-EnescoUCM Research Group of Social, Developmental and Comparative Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Amanda Madeleine SeedSchool of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
Chikako Suda-KingLexical Intelligence, Rockville, MD, USA.
Tibor TauzinDepartment of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Sebastian TempelmannInstitute for Research and Development, University of Teacher Education Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Claudio TennieFaculty of Science, Department of Geosciences, Working Group Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Valentina TruppaInstitute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy.
Jana UherSchool of Human Sciences, University of Greenwich, London, UK.
Amrisha VaishDepartment of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Edwin J C van LeeuwenDepartment of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Elisabetta M VisalberghiInstitute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy.
Christoph J VölterDepartment of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Victoria VonauDepartment of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Claudia A F WascherBehavioural Ecology Research Group, School of Life Sciences; Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
Roman M WittigThe Ape Social Mind Lab, Institute for Cognitive Sciences Marc Jeannerod, CNRS, Lyon, France.
Wouter WolfDepartment of Developmental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Michael TomaselloDepartment of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Katja LiebalDepartment of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Josep CallSchool of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
Daniel B M HaunDepartment of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. haun@eva.mpg.de.
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 454726751
Abstract
The study of great ape cognition offers insights into the evolutionary origins of human intelligence, but is hindered by small sample sizes and restricted access to data. To address this, we present the EVApeCognition Dataset, a publicly available resource comprising 262 experimental datasets from 150 scientific publications from the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center (2004-2021) in Leipzig, Germany. Eighty-one apes participated in 150 studies, with a majority (N = 78) participating in more than one study. Publication of the dataset aims to make these unique datasets accessible for future meta-analyses and correlational analyses, helping us better understand how our great ape relatives think, learn, and behave.
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