CURRENT RESEARCH

Social learning, tool use, culture, communication in great apes and humans. Emotional influence on all of the latter.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

List of recent representative publications:

Gruber, T., Debracque, C., Ceravolo, L., Igloi, K., Marin Bosch, B., Frühholz, S. & Grandjean, D. (2020) Human discrimination and categorization of emotions in voices: a functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) study. Frontiers in Neurosciences. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00570
Sievers, C. & Gruber, T. (2020) Can nonhuman primate signals be arbitrarily meaningful like human words: An affective approach. Animal Behavior and Cognition, Special Issue Seyfarth et al. 1980, doi: 10.26451/abc.07.02.08.2020
Gruber, T., Deschenaux, A., Frick, A., & Clément, F. (2019) Group membership influences more social identification than social learning or overimitation in children. Child Development. 90(3), 728-745. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12931
Lamon, N., Neumann, C., Zuberbühler, K.§ & Gruber, T. (2018) Wild chimpanzees select tool material based on efficiency and knowledge. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1715