Josep Call

Fission-fusion dynamics: new research frameworks (2008)

Aureli, Filippo, Shaffner, Colleen, Boesch, Christophe, Bearder, Simon, Call, Josep, Chapman, Colin, ...

Nineteen scientists from different disciplines collaborated in highlighting new methodological and theoretical aspects in the re-emerging study area of fission-fusion dynamics. The renewed interest...

Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) use a physical marker to locate hidden food (2006)

Riedel, Julia, Buttelmann, David, Call, Josep, Tomasello, Michael

Dogs can use the placement of an arbitrary marker to locate hidden food in an object-choice situation. We tested domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) in three studies aimed at pinning down the relative...

What does an intermediate success rate mean? An analysis of a Piagetian liquid conservation task in the great apes (2006)

Suda, Chikako, Call, Josep

The study investigates what an intermediate success rate means in bonobos, chimpanzees, and orangutans. Apes participated in liquid conservation experiments where they had to track the larger of two...

Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition (2005)

Tomasello, Michael, Carpenter, Malinda, Call, Josep, Behne, Tanya, Moll, Henrike

We propose that the crucial difference between human cognition and that of other species is the ability to participate with others in collaborative activities with shared goals and intentions: shared...

Unwilling Versus Unable: Infants' Understanding of Intentional Action (2005)

Behne, Tanya, Carpenter, Malinda, Call, Josep, Tomasello, Michael

(from the journal abstract) Infants experienced a female adult handing them toys. Sometimes, however, the transaction failed, either because the adult was in various ways unwilling to give the toy...

Copying results and copying actions in the process of social learning: chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and human children (Homo sapiens) (2005)

Call, Josep, Carpenter, Malinda, Tomasello, Michael

There is currently much debate about the nature of social learning in chimpanzees., The main question is whether they can copy others' actions, as opposed to reproducing the environmental effects of...

Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) and Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) Encode Relevant Problem Features in a Tool-Using Task (2005)

Mulcahy, Nicholas J., Call, Josep, Dunbar, Robin I. M.

(from the journal abstract) Two important elements in problem solving are the abilities to encode relevant task features and to combine multiple actions to achieve the goal. The authors investigated...

What Chimpanzees Know about Seeing, Revisited: An Explanation of the Third Kind (2005)

Call, Josep, Tomasello, Michael

(from the chapter) Joint attention is not just two individuals looking at the same thing at the same time. Joint attention requires that each of the individuals knows that the other is attending to...

The Self and Other: A Missing Link in Comparative Social Cognition (2005)

Call, Josep

(from the introduction) In this chapter, Josep Call investigated a different aspect of metacognition. He asked whether a nonhuman primate would seek information it needs to solve some problem. Call...

Guessing versus choosing - and seeing versus believing - in false belief tasks (2005)

Lohmann, Heide, Carpenter, Malinda, Call, Josep

Three- and 4-year-old children were tested using videos of puppets in various versions of a theory of mind change-of-location situation, in order to answer several questions about what children are...