Postdoctoral research fellow at Johns Hopkins University (@jhuartssciences) studying primate and canine cognition | animal communication, cooperation, collective action, rationality and reasoning, social behavior | @uniofstandrews graduate | she/her/hers
New paper alert! 📢 Out now, fully #openaccess, in a special issue of Phil Trans on the evolution of collective intelligence (1/4) royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
Chimpanzees spontaneously prepare for mutually exclusive possibilities, and collective context strengthens this behaviourAbstract. In both humans and non-human animals, collectives can sometimes overcome individual cognitive biases or shortcomings to execute more rational behroyalsocietypublishing.org🎉Very excited to present our new study, in collaboration with @emmasmcewen.bsky.social and Josep Call, on co-representation and communication during coordination in chimpanzees! Make sure to check out the thread for details on our findings and discussion 🤓
Emma Suvi McEwenNew paper alert 👇 We present a new two-action sequential coordination task designed to investigate co-representation non-human primates. In collaboration with @drelizabethwarren.bsky.social and Josep Call and out now, fully #openaccess in PLoS One! (1/4) journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...