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(2006 - 2007)

Dr. Dorothy Fragaszy

Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of American Society of Primatologists, San Antonio, TX, August 16-19, 2006. Abstract: The ontogeny of foraging skills in wild brown capuchins (Cebus apella), Raleighvallen suriname. N. Gunst, S. Boinski, and D. Fragaszy.

Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of American Society of Primatologists, San Antonio, TX, August 16-19, 2006. Abstract: Interactions between reward expectation and sweeping across a linear array of dots in an automated touchscreen drawing task by a captive capuchin monkey (Cebus apella). T. Jeyaraj, I. Iversen, K. Leighty and D. Fragaszy.

Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of American Society of Primatologists, San Antonio, TX, August 16-19, 2006. Abstract: Hercules with a tail: A natural history of nut-cracking among the Capuchin monkeys of southern Piaui, Brazil.

Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of American Society of Primatologists, San Antonio, TX, August 16-19, 2006. Invited Speaker: Kinematics of nut-cracking in wild capuchin monkeys in Piaui, Brazil. Q. Liu, D. Fragaszy and K. Simpson.

Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of American Society of Primatologists, San Antonio, TX, August 16-19, 2006. Invited Speaker: Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) strategies for managing concurrent asymmetric spatial relations in an insertion task. N. Scott, D. Fragaszy and C. Menzel.

Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of American Society of Primatologists, San Antonio, TX, August 16-19, 2006. Invited Speaker: A capuchin monkey learns to navigate. T. Pickering, E.H. Kennedy, B. von Ammon, N. Scott, D. Fragaszy and J. Wintje.

American Association Physical Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA, March 28 – April 1, 2007. Invited Speaker: Wild brown capuchins in Suriname exploit combinatorial manipulation for multiple functions. S. Boinski, D. Fragaszy, E. Ehmke, and L. Kauffman.

New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP), New York University, Department of Anthropology, New York, NY, March 8, 2007. Invited Lecture: Hercules with a tail: A natural history of capuchin monkeys cracking nuts with hammer stones in southern Piaui, Brazil.

2007 Biennial Meeting, Society for Research in Child Development, Boston , MA , March 29 – April 1, 2007. Invited Paper Symposium: “Ontogeny and phylogeny of percussive tool use: A perception-action analysis.” Dorothy M. Fragaszy and Briseida Dogo de Resende.

Comparative Cognition Conference, Melbourne, FL, March 21-24, 2007. A tufted capuchin monkey becomes proficient at navigating mazes. J. Pan, T. Pickering, B. von Ammon, H. Kuroshima and D. Fragaszy.

Comparative Cognition Conference, Melbourne, FL, March 21-24, 2007. Capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) learn to cope with task irregularities while using tools. J. Crast, I. Kaiser, M. Dase, D. Fragaszy & C. Wallez.

Comparative Cognition Conference, Melbourne, FL, March 21-24, 2007. Development in nut cracking skills in young wild bearded capuchin monkeys (Cebus libidinosus). Q. Liu, I. Kaiser & D. Fragaszy.

Publications

Cummins-Sebree, S., & Fragaszy, D. (in press). Choosing and using tools: Capuchins use a different metric than tamarins. J. Comp. Psych.

Galloway, A., Addessi, E., Fragaszy, D., & Visablerghi, E. (in press). Social facilitation of eating familiar food in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella): Does it involve behavioral coordination? Int. J. Primatol.

Book Chapters

Cummins-Sebree, S.E., & Fragaszy, D. (in press). Comparing tool-use abilities in human and nonhuman primates: A perception-action model. In V. Roux and B. Brill (Eds.). Knapping Stone: A Uniquely Hominid Behavior? Paris: Presses Univsersitaires de France.

Visalberghi, E. & Fragaszy, D. (in press). Tool use: A challenge for capuchins, a challenge for us. In E. Wasserman & T. Zentall (Eds.): Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Intelligence, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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