Comparative & Developmental Psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology 🦍 and the Messerli Research Institute 🐕
Christoph Völter
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Despite advances, quantifying complex motion info remains challenging. @jtroscianko.bsky.social @kevinjgaston.bsky.social &co present BehaveAI, a #video analysis tool that sees motion as color, tracking animals & classifying #behavior in complex natural scenes @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4kTF1wX
New 🦍 💭 paper in @psychscience.bsky.social
We continue to ask simple questions that are hard to answer
"Individual Differences in Great Ape Cognition Across Time and Domains: Stability, Structure, and Predictability"
Bonus: Rasch models in the supplement 🤓
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My supervisor Kano is advertising multiple open positions! Check out the doc :)
Open Positions @ Kyushu Univ (Kano Lab)
Postdoc / Tech staff / PhD-MSc
Eye-gaze & social cognition (exp + field + CV)
🎥 youtu.be/rXT-yjQzJxU
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@animalopps.bsky.social
Can chimpanzees prepare for mutually exclusive possibilities individually or collectively?
Check out our new paper in Phil Trans @royalsociety.org, led by @drelizabethwarren.bsky.social, and funded by @templetonworld.bsky.social!
And stay tuned for the next paper, clarifying the mechanism!
PLOS Biology
Two postdoc positions at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna in the research area of human-animal interactions:
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New #dog #eyetracking paper: Pupil size changes reveal that dogs have expectations about the usual response to some conventional human gestures in a third-party context.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
led by Lucrezia Lonardo and w/ Ludwig Huber.
What are children's *naturalistic* everyday experiences like?
Nele's paper presents a crucial resource (100+h of 🎥 w/ annotations) that will help us to build the tools we need to study what it's like to be a child in the wild.
🙏to @jacobsfoundation.bsky.social @maxplanck.de @dfg.de for funding!
Really looking forward to working together on this new project focusing on the cognitive underpinnings of innovation in parrots, corvids and apes!
Applications are now open for a PhD on collaborative problem-solving with @nicolacutting.bsky.social and myself. The deadline is soon (31st March) so get in touch with questions.
jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Part time fixed term Location: YorkSalary: £34,610 to £39,906 per annum (£17,305 to £19,953 pro rata)Introduction to YSJ universityYork St John is an ambitious, modern university at the heart of historic York and there...
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...
Abstract. In both humans and non-human animals, collectives can sometimes overcome individual cognitive biases or shortcomings to execute more rational beh
Our new emerging field within the excellence initiative of the @fwf-at.bsky.social will look into the process of innovation across apes, parrots, corvids and embodied artificial agents with @mohara.bsky.social @barbaraklump.bsky.social @christophvoelter.bsky.social
I am excited to share my first publication in Behavior Research Methods! 🚀
We’ve released ChildLens: 109 hours of open-access, annotated egocentric video/audio from children (ages 3–5).
Paper: rdcu.be/fdfAI
Not a secret anymore! I am extremely proud and happy to present you the EVApeCognition Dataset, out now in Scientific Data.
Over the last 5 years we have assembled and standardized data from 150 studies on great ape cognition from the WKPRC in the Leipzig Zoo!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Scientific Data - EVApeCognition: An 18-Year Dataset of Great Ape Cognition
