The presence of divergent and independent research traditions in the gestural and vocal
domains of primate communication has resulted in major discrepancies in the definition and …

Humans communicate with small children in unusual and highly conspicuous ways (child-
directed communication (CDC)), which enhance social bonding and facilitate language …

Investigating in depth the mechanisms underlying human and non‐human primate
intentional communication systems (involving gestures, vocalisations, facial expressions …

Debates concerning social learning in the behavioral and the developmental cognitive
sciences have largely ignored the literature on social influence in the affective sciences …

When we compare human gestures to those of other apes, it looks at first like there is
nothing much to compare at all. In adult humans, gestures are thought to be a window into …

Postnatal development is protracted relative to lifespan in many primates, including modern
humans (Homo sapiens), facilitating the acquisition of key motor, communication and social …

Abstract Language is commonly narrowed down to speech, but human face-to-face
communication is in fact an intrinsically multimodal phenomenon. Despite growing evidence …

Over the last 30 years, most research on non-human primate gestural communication has
been produced by psychologists, which has shaped the questions asked and the methods …

Striking similarities across ape gestural repertoires suggest shared phylogenetic origins that
likely provided a foundation for the emergence of language. We pilot a novel approach for …

Compared to other animals, humans appear to have a special motivation to share
experiences and mental states with others (;), which enables them to enter a condition of …