Simone Pika
Biographic Data
| ID | 182017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simone Pika |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simone |
| FAMILY NAME | Pika |
| SIGNATURE | PIKA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Osnabrück University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4398-2337 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Human turn-taking development
Human communication builds on a highly cooperative and interactional infrastructure—conversational turn-taking. Turn-taking is characterized by reciprocal, alternating exchanges between two or more interactants, avoidance of overlap, and relatively short response times. Although the behavioral principles governing turn-taking in spoken interactions of human adults have been investigated for decades, relatively little is known about the acquisitio…
Inquiring Pant‐Hoots in Wild Chimpanzees and the Role of Social Bonds and Group Cohesion
The evolution of human language remains a puzzle, with comparative approaches focusing on vocalizations, gestures, bimodal combinations, and, most recently, social interaction and turn‐taking. The latter is characterized by cooperative, reciprocal exchanges of alternating short bursts of information among interactants. Some hallmarks of human conversational turn‐taking have been found in other primate species, suggesting a possible specialization…
Infrastructure of mother-infant interactions across development in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild
The infrastructure underlying human social interaction can be described by several characteristics, such as the exchange of signals and actions, specific temporal relationships, and the use of directed gaze and body direction. These characteristics are remarkably uniform across several different languages, cultures with some of them emerging in mother-infant interactions early in development before the onset of words. It has been suggested that d…
Hunting of mammals by central chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) in the Loango National Park, Gabon
The predation and consumption of animals are common behaviours in chimpanzees across tropical Africa. To date, however, relatively little is known concerning the hunting behaviour of central chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes troglodytes ). Here, we provide the first direct observations of hunting behaviour by individuals of the newly habituated Rekambo community in the Loango National Park, Gabon. Over a period of 23 months (May 2017 to March 2019), …
Intercommunity interactions and killings in central chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) from Loango National Park, Gabon
Intercommunity competition in chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) has been widely studied in eastern ( P. t. schweinfurthii ) and western ( P. t. verus ) communities. Both subspecies show hostility towards neighboring communities but differ in rates of lethal attacks and female involvement. However, relatively little is known about the territorial behavior of the two other subspecies, central ( P. t. troglodytes ) and Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees ( P…
Home range size in central chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) from Loango National Park, Gabon
Ranging behavior has been studied extensively in eastern ( Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) and western ( P. t. verus ) chimpanzees, but relatively little is known regarding home ranges of the other two subspecies ( P. t. ellioti; P. t. troglodytes ). In this study, we determined the home range size and space use of a habituated community (Rekambo) of central chimpanzees living in a habitat mosaic in Loango National Park, Gabon. Data on travel rou…
Gorillas’ (Gorilla g. gorilla) knowledge of conspecifics’ affordances
The use of tools, long thought to be uniquely human, has now been observed in other animal taxa including several species of birds, non-primate mammals as well as some non-human primate species. Chimpanzees, one of humankind’s closest living relatives, exceed all other non-human animal species as they have been reported to use an exceptionally large toolkit. However, relatively little is known about the tool-use skills of the other great ape spec…
Begging and social tolerance
Author Correction
Chimpanzee ethnography reveals unexpected cultural diversity
Social relationships and greetings in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
A new window onto animal culture
Scientific interest in the diversity of gestural signalling dates back to the figure of Charles Darwin. More than a hundred years later, there is a considerable body of work describing human gestural diversity across languages and cultures. However, the question of communicative culture in our closest living relatives, the nonhuman primates, is relatively unexplored. Here, we will stir new interest into this topic by (i) briefly summarizing the c…
Why hide? Concealed sex in dominant Arabian babblers (Turdoides squamiceps) in the wild
Do Mechanical Effectiveness and Recipient Species Influence Intentional Signal Laterality in Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
Gestural Communication in Nonhuman Species
The evolution of language remains one of science's greatest mysteries. Although first comparative investigations into language origins focused on vocal abilities of nonhuman animals, especially primates, the number of publications reporting new and fascinating results about gestural skills of nonhuman animals has notably increased. To get a better insight in this intriguing scientific field, the present essay will provide a brief overview of its …
How do modelled gestures influence preschool children’s spontaneous gesture production
Around the age of nine months, children start to communicate by using first words and gestures, during interactions with caregivers. The question remains as to how older preschool children utilise the gestures they observe into their own gestural representations of previously unseen objects. Two accounts of gesture production (the ‘gesture learning’, and ‘simulated representation’ accounts) offer different predictions for how preschool children u…
Do French-English Bilingual Children Gesture More Than Monolingual Children
How to Order a Beer
It is said that conventional gestures for numbers differ by culture. Conventional gestures are thought to imply consistency of form both across and within individuals. The present study tests the consistency of finger gestures of 60 participants of three different cultures and in three different mother tongues in nine different hypothetical scenarios. The first subject of analysis is whether participants differentiate between counting and signali…
Gestures of apes and pre-linguistic human children
The majority of studies on animal communication provide evidence that gestural signalling plays an important role in the communication of non-human primates and resembles that of pre-linguistic and just-linguistic human infants in some important ways. However, ape gestures also differ from the gestures of human infants in some important ways, and these differences might provide crucial clues for answering the question of how human language — at l…
Social games between bonobos and humans
Triadic social games are interesting from a cognitive perspective because they require a high degree of mutual social awareness. They consist of two agents incorporating an object in turn‐taking sequences and require individuals to coordinate their attention to the task, the object, and to one another. Social games are observed commonly in domesticated dogs interacting with humans, but they have received only little empirical attention in nonhuma…
Primate Vocalization, Gesture, and the Evolution of Human Language
The performance of language is multimodal, not confined to speech. Review of monkey and ape communication demonstrates greater flexibility in the use of hands and body than for vocalization. Nonetheless, the gestural repertoire of any group of nonhuman primates is small compared with the vocabulary of any human language and thus, presumably, of the transitional form called protolanguage. We argue that it was the coupling of gestural communication…
Gestural communication of orangutans ( Pongo pygmaeus )
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Gestural communication in subadult bonobos (Pan paniscus)
This article aims to provide an inventory of the communicative gestures used by bonobos (Pan paniscus), based on observations of subadult bonobos and descriptions of gestural signals and similar behaviors in wild and captive bonobo groups. In addition, we focus on the underlying processes of social cognition, including learning mechanisms and flexibility of gesture use (such as adjustment to the attentional state of the recipient). The subjects w…
Gestural communication of apes
Gestural communication of nonhuman primates may allow insight into the evolutionary scenario of human communication given the flexible use and learning of gestures as opposed to vocalizations. This paper provides an overview of the work on the gestural communication of apes with the focus on their repertoire, learning mechanisms, and the flexibility of gesture use during interactions with conspecifics. Although there is a variation between the sp…
Introduction
Primate Vocalization, Gesture, and the Evolution of Human Language
The performance of language is multimodal, not confined to speech. Review of monkey and ape communication demonstrates greater flexibility in the use of hands and body than for vocalization. Nonetheless, the gestural repertoire of any group of nonhuman primates is small compared with the vocabulary of any human language and thus, presumably, of the transitional form called protolanguage. We argue that it was the coupling of gestural communication…
Gestural communication of orangutans ( Pongo pygmaeus )
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Chimpanzee ethnography reveals unexpected cultural diversity
Do French-English Bilingual Children Gesture More Than Monolingual Children
Gestural communication of apes
Gestural communication of nonhuman primates may allow insight into the evolutionary scenario of human communication given the flexible use and learning of gestures as opposed to vocalizations. This paper provides an overview of the work on the gestural communication of apes with the focus on their repertoire, learning mechanisms, and the flexibility of gesture use during interactions with conspecifics. Although there is a variation between the sp…
A new window onto animal culture
Scientific interest in the diversity of gestural signalling dates back to the figure of Charles Darwin. More than a hundred years later, there is a considerable body of work describing human gestural diversity across languages and cultures. However, the question of communicative culture in our closest living relatives, the nonhuman primates, is relatively unexplored. Here, we will stir new interest into this topic by (i) briefly summarizing the c…
How to Order a Beer
It is said that conventional gestures for numbers differ by culture. Conventional gestures are thought to imply consistency of form both across and within individuals. The present study tests the consistency of finger gestures of 60 participants of three different cultures and in three different mother tongues in nine different hypothetical scenarios. The first subject of analysis is whether participants differentiate between counting and signali…
How do modelled gestures influence preschool children’s spontaneous gesture production
Around the age of nine months, children start to communicate by using first words and gestures, during interactions with caregivers. The question remains as to how older preschool children utilise the gestures they observe into their own gestural representations of previously unseen objects. Two accounts of gesture production (the ‘gesture learning’, and ‘simulated representation’ accounts) offer different predictions for how preschool children u…
‘Separating the wheat from the chaff’
Gestural communication in young gorillas ( Gorilla gorilla )
In the present study we investigated the gestural communication of gorillas ( Gorilla gorilla ). The subjects were 13 gorillas (1–6 years old) living in two different groups in captivity. Our goal was to compile the gestural repertoire of subadult gorillas, with a special focus on processes of social cognition, including attention to individual and developmental variability, group variability, and flexibility of use. Thirty‐three different gestur…
Social communication in siamangs ( Symphalangus syndactylus )
Gestural communication in subadult bonobos (Pan paniscus)
This article aims to provide an inventory of the communicative gestures used by bonobos (Pan paniscus), based on observations of subadult bonobos and descriptions of gestural signals and similar behaviors in wild and captive bonobo groups. In addition, we focus on the underlying processes of social cognition, including learning mechanisms and flexibility of gesture use (such as adjustment to the attentional state of the recipient). The subjects w…
Gestural communication of apes
Gestural communication of nonhuman primates may allow insight into the evolutionary scenario of human communication given the flexible use and learning of gestures as opposed to vocalizations. This paper provides an overview of the work on the gestural communication of apes with the focus on their repertoire, learning mechanisms, and the flexibility of gesture use during interactions with conspecifics. Although there is a variation between the sp…
Introduction
Gestural communication of orangutans ( Pongo pygmaeus )
Preview this article: Gestural communication of orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/gest.6.1.02lie-1.gif
Gestures of apes and pre-linguistic human children
The majority of studies on animal communication provide evidence that gestural signalling plays an important role in the communication of non-human primates and resembles that of pre-linguistic and just-linguistic human infants in some important ways. However, ape gestures also differ from the gestures of human infants in some important ways, and these differences might provide crucial clues for answering the question of how human language — at l…
Social games between bonobos and humans
Triadic social games are interesting from a cognitive perspective because they require a high degree of mutual social awareness. They consist of two agents incorporating an object in turn‐taking sequences and require individuals to coordinate their attention to the task, the object, and to one another. Social games are observed commonly in domesticated dogs interacting with humans, but they have received only little empirical attention in nonhuma…
Primate Vocalization, Gesture, and the Evolution of Human Language
The performance of language is multimodal, not confined to speech. Review of monkey and ape communication demonstrates greater flexibility in the use of hands and body than for vocalization. Nonetheless, the gestural repertoire of any group of nonhuman primates is small compared with the vocabulary of any human language and thus, presumably, of the transitional form called protolanguage. We argue that it was the coupling of gestural communication…
Do French-English Bilingual Children Gesture More Than Monolingual Children
How to Order a Beer
It is said that conventional gestures for numbers differ by culture. Conventional gestures are thought to imply consistency of form both across and within individuals. The present study tests the consistency of finger gestures of 60 participants of three different cultures and in three different mother tongues in nine different hypothetical scenarios. The first subject of analysis is whether participants differentiate between counting and signali…
How do modelled gestures influence preschool children’s spontaneous gesture production
Around the age of nine months, children start to communicate by using first words and gestures, during interactions with caregivers. The question remains as to how older preschool children utilise the gestures they observe into their own gestural representations of previously unseen objects. Two accounts of gesture production (the ‘gesture learning’, and ‘simulated representation’ accounts) offer different predictions for how preschool children u…
Gestural Communication in Nonhuman Species
The evolution of language remains one of science's greatest mysteries. Although first comparative investigations into language origins focused on vocal abilities of nonhuman animals, especially primates, the number of publications reporting new and fascinating results about gestural skills of nonhuman animals has notably increased. To get a better insight in this intriguing scientific field, the present essay will provide a brief overview of its …
Why hide? Concealed sex in dominant Arabian babblers (Turdoides squamiceps) in the wild
Do Mechanical Effectiveness and Recipient Species Influence Intentional Signal Laterality in Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
Social relationships and greetings in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
A new window onto animal culture
Scientific interest in the diversity of gestural signalling dates back to the figure of Charles Darwin. More than a hundred years later, there is a considerable body of work describing human gestural diversity across languages and cultures. However, the question of communicative culture in our closest living relatives, the nonhuman primates, is relatively unexplored. Here, we will stir new interest into this topic by (i) briefly summarizing the c…
Gorillas’ (Gorilla g. gorilla) knowledge of conspecifics’ affordances
The use of tools, long thought to be uniquely human, has now been observed in other animal taxa including several species of birds, non-primate mammals as well as some non-human primate species. Chimpanzees, one of humankind’s closest living relatives, exceed all other non-human animal species as they have been reported to use an exceptionally large toolkit. However, relatively little is known about the tool-use skills of the other great ape spec…
Begging and social tolerance
Author Correction
Chimpanzee ethnography reveals unexpected cultural diversity
Hunting of mammals by central chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) in the Loango National Park, Gabon
The predation and consumption of animals are common behaviours in chimpanzees across tropical Africa. To date, however, relatively little is known concerning the hunting behaviour of central chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes troglodytes ). Here, we provide the first direct observations of hunting behaviour by individuals of the newly habituated Rekambo community in the Loango National Park, Gabon. Over a period of 23 months (May 2017 to March 2019), …
Intercommunity interactions and killings in central chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) from Loango National Park, Gabon
Intercommunity competition in chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) has been widely studied in eastern ( P. t. schweinfurthii ) and western ( P. t. verus ) communities. Both subspecies show hostility towards neighboring communities but differ in rates of lethal attacks and female involvement. However, relatively little is known about the territorial behavior of the two other subspecies, central ( P. t. troglodytes ) and Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees ( P…
Home range size in central chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) from Loango National Park, Gabon
Ranging behavior has been studied extensively in eastern ( Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) and western ( P. t. verus ) chimpanzees, but relatively little is known regarding home ranges of the other two subspecies ( P. t. ellioti; P. t. troglodytes ). In this study, we determined the home range size and space use of a habituated community (Rekambo) of central chimpanzees living in a habitat mosaic in Loango National Park, Gabon. Data on travel rou…
Psychology (23 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (19 works) · Biology (17 works) · Communication (16 works) · Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (15 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (12 works) · Gesture (12 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (9 works) · Linguistics (9 works)