Josep Call
Josep CallFBAis a Spanishcomparative psychologistspecializing inprimate cognition.
Early life and education[edit]
He was born inCatalonia,Spainand received a BA (1990) from theUniversitat Autonoma de Barcelona(Spain), and amaster's degree(1995) andPhD(1997) fromEmory University(United States), under the supervision of Prof.Michael Tomasello.
Academic career[edit]
From 1997 to 1999 he was a lecturer at the School of Biological Sciences at theUniversity of Liverpool(UK). Then in 1999 he moved to theMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary AnthropologyinLeipzig,Germanywhere he is currently a senior scientist, co-founder and co-director of theWolfgang KöhlerPrimate Research Centre. Call also holds the post of Professor in Evolutionary Origins of Mind at theUniversity of St Andrews,where his focus is on technical and social problem solving in animals with a special emphasis on the great apes.[1]
Research[edit]
Among other topics, Call has worked to identify the unique cognitive and cultural processes that distinguish humans from their nearestprimaterelatives, thegreat apes.He has published two books and nearly two hundred research articles and book chapters on the cognition and behavior of apes and other animals. He is currently the editor of theJournal of Comparative Psychologyand a member of the editorial board of several other academic journals.
Honours[edit]
In 2013 Call was elected a Fellow of theAmerican Psychological Association,[2]and in March 2016 was elected a Corresponding Fellow of theRoyal Society of Edinburgh[3]In July 2019, he was elected aFellow of the British Academy(FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[4]
Selected works[edit]
- Tomasello, M. & Call, J. (1997).Primate cognition.New York:Oxford University Press.
- Tomasello, M., Carpenter, M., Call, J., Behne, T. & Moll, H. (2005). Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition.Behavioral and Brain Sciences,28, 1-17.
- Nicholas J. Mulcahy; Josep Call (May 2006). "Apes Save Tools for Future Use".Science.312(5776): 1038–1040.Bibcode:2006Sci...312.1038M.doi:10.1126/science.1125456.PMID16709782.S2CID8468216.
- Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2007).The gestural communication of apes and monkeys.Manhaw NJ: LEA.
- Jensen, K., Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2007). Chimpanzees are rational maximizers in an ultimatum game.Science,318, 107–109.
- Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2008). Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? 30 years later.Trends in Cognitive Sciences,12, 187–192.
- Cornelia Schrauf; Josep Call; Koki Fuwa; Satoshi Hirata (Jul 2012)."Do Chimpanzees Use Weight to Select Hammer Tools?".PLOS ONE.7(7): e41044.Bibcode:2012PLoSO...741044S.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041044.PMC3399814.PMID22815905.
- Call, J. (2017), “Bonobos, chimpanzees and tools: Integrating species-specific physiological biases and socio-ecology,” in Hare, Brian & Yamamoto, Shinya (eds.),Bonobos: Unique in Mind, Brain, and Behavior,Oxford UP.
References[edit]
- ^"Josep Call - University of St Andrews".Risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk.Retrieved27 November2017.
- ^"Josep Call - Activities and awards - University of St Andrews".Risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk.Retrieved27 November2017.
- ^"Fellows - The Royal Society of Edinburgh".Royalsoced.org.uk.Archived fromthe originalon 8 October 2016.Retrieved27 November2017.
- ^"New Fellows 2019"(PDF).The British Academy.Retrieved27 July2019.
External links[edit]
- Official homepage of Dr. Josep Call
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Homepage of the Wolfgang Koehler Primate Research CentreArchived2010-06-18 at theWayback Machine
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