Simon Townsend - Publications

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Universität Zürich, Zürich, ZH, Switzerland 

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2023 Watson SK, Mine JG, O'Neill LG, Mueller JL, Russell AF, Townsend SW. Cognitive constraints on vocal combinatoriality in a social bird. Iscience. 26: 106977. PMID 37332672 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106977  0.693
2023 Leroux M, Schel AM, Wilke C, Chandia B, Zuberbühler K, Slocombe KE, Townsend SW. Call combinations and compositional processing in wild chimpanzees. Nature Communications. 14: 2225. PMID 37142584 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37816-y  0.646
2023 Walsh SL, Engesser S, Townsend SW, Ridley AR. Multi-level combinatoriality in magpie non-song vocalizations. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface. 20: 20220679. PMID 36722171 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2022.0679  0.402
2022 Wilke C, Lahiff NJ, Sabbi KH, Watts DP, Townsend SW, Slocombe KE. Declarative referential gesturing in a wild chimpanzee (). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119: e2206486119. PMID 36375066 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2206486119  0.311
2022 Jorgewich-Cohen G, Townsend SW, Padovese LR, Klein N, Praschag P, Ferrara CR, Ettmar S, Menezes S, Varani AP, Serano J, Sánchez-Villagra MR. Common evolutionary origin of acoustic communication in choanate vertebrates. Nature Communications. 13: 6089. PMID 36284092 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33741-8  0.365
2022 Bosshard AB, Leroux M, Lester NA, Bickel B, Stoll S, Townsend SW. From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 76: 122. PMID 36034316 DOI: 10.1007/s00265-022-03224-3  0.633
2022 Mine JG, Slocombe KE, Willems EP, Gilby IC, Yu M, Thompson ME, Muller MN, Wrangham RW, Townsend SW, Machanda ZP. Vocal signals facilitate cooperative hunting in wild chimpanzees. Science Advances. 8: eabo5553. PMID 35905190 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo5553  0.71
2022 Lahiff NJ, Slocombe KE, Taglialatela J, Dellwo V, Townsend SW. Degraded and computer-generated speech processing in a bonobo. Animal Cognition. PMID 35595881 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-022-01621-9  0.364
2022 Schick J, Fryns C, Wegdell F, Laporte M, Zuberbühler K, van Schaik CP, Townsend SW, Stoll S. The function and evolution of child-directed communication. Plos Biology. 20: e3001630. PMID 35522717 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001630  0.709
2021 Leroux M, Monday G, Chandia B, Akankwasa JW, Zuberbühler K, Hobaiter C, Crockford C, Townsend SW, Asiimwe C, Fedurek P. First observation of a chimpanzee with albinism in the wild: Social interactions and subsequent infanticide. American Journal of Primatology. e23305. PMID 34270104 DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23305  0.534
2020 Collier K, Radford AN, Stoll S, Watson SK, Manser MB, Bickel B, Townsend SW. Dwarf mongoose alarm calls: investigating a complex non-human animal call. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 287: 20192514. PMID 32962548 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2514  0.775
2019 Engesser S, Holub JL, O'Neill LG, Russell AF, Townsend SW. Chestnut-crowned babbler calls are composed of meaningless shared building blocks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 31501336 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1819513116  0.458
2019 Fröhlich M, Sievers C, Townsend SW, Gruber T, van Schaik CP. Multimodal communication and language origins: integrating gestures and vocalizations. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. PMID 31250542 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12535  0.676
2019 Engesser S, Townsend SW. Combinatoriality in the vocal systems of nonhuman animals. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Cognitive Science. 10: e1493. PMID 30724476 DOI: 10.1002/wcs.1493  0.445
2018 Townsend SW, Engesser S, Stoll S, Zuberbühler K, Bickel B. Compositionality in animals and humans. Plos Biology. 16: e2006425. PMID 30110319 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pbio.2006425  0.789
2017 Russell AF, Townsend SW. Communication: Animal Steps on the Road to Syntax? Current Biology : Cb. 27: R753-R755. PMID 28787604 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.066  0.455
2017 Engesser S, Ridley AR, Townsend SW. Element repetition rates encode functionally distinct information in pied babbler 'clucks' and 'purrs'. Animal Cognition. 20: 953-960. PMID 28730513 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-017-1114-6  0.393
2016 Townsend SW, Koski SE, Byrne RW, Slocombe KE, Bickel B, Boeckle M, Braga Goncalves I, Burkart JM, Flower T, Gaunet F, Glock HJ, Gruber T, Jansen DA, Liebal K, Linke A, et al. Exorcising Grice's ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. PMID 27480784 DOI: 10.1111/Brv.12289  0.798
2016 Engesser S, Ridley AR, Townsend SW. Meaningful call combinations and compositional processing in the southern pied babbler. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 113: 5976-81. PMID 27155011 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1600970113  0.441
2015 Engesser S, Crane JM, Savage JL, Russell AF, Townsend SW. Experimental Evidence for Phonemic Contrasts in a Nonhuman Vocal System. Plos Biology. 13: e1002171. PMID 26121619 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002171  0.424
2015 Watson SK, Townsend SW, Schel AM, Wilke C, Wallace EK, Cheng L, West V, Slocombe KE. Vocal learning in the functionally referential food grunts of chimpanzees. Current Biology : Cb. 25: 495-9. PMID 25660548 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.12.032  0.33
2014 Collier K, Bickel B, van Schaik CP, Manser MB, Townsend SW. Language evolution: syntax before phonology? Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 281: 20140263. PMID 24943364 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2014.0263  0.72
2013 Schel AM, Townsend SW, Machanda Z, Zuberbühler K, Slocombe KE. Chimpanzee alarm call production meets key criteria for intentionality. Plos One. 8: e76674. PMID 24146908 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0076674  0.676
2009 Townsend S, Zuberbuhler K. Audience effects in chimpanzee copulation calls. Communicative & Integrative Biology. 2: 282-4. PMID 19641752 DOI: 10.4161/Cib.2.3.6796  0.552
2009 Slocombe KE, Townsend SW, Zuberbühler K. Wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) distinguish between different scream types: evidence from a playback study. Animal Cognition. 12: 441-9. PMID 19112583 DOI: 10.1007/S10071-008-0204-X  0.524
2008 Townsend SW, Deschner T, Zuberbühler K. Female chimpanzees use copulation calls flexibly to prevent social competition. Plos One. 3: e2431. PMID 22423311 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0002431  0.433
2007 Townsend SW, Slocombe KE, Emery Thompson M, Zuberbühler K. Female-led infanticide in wild chimpanzees. Current Biology : Cb. 17: R355-6. PMID 17502085 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2007.03.020  0.441
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