Bastien Meunier
Research interests
My research interest lies in bridging the gap between animal communication and human language, to better understand the evolutionary origins of the latter. During my PhD thesis, I studied the developmental and evolutive origins of conversational turn-taking in a comparative approach between human infants and non-human primates (red-capped mangabeys). Now I’m focusing on the study of wild sooty mangabeys within the Taï Monkey Project (Taï National Park, Ivory Coast), as a collaborator of the NCCR Evolving Language consortium (Animal Meaning). I investigate in what extent sooty mangabeys can generate and infer meaning from intentions, perceive and communicate external events, create and transmit communicative conventions.
Contact
Université de Neuchâtel
Institut de Biologie
Cognition Comparée
Rue Emile-Argand 11
2000 Neuchâtel
Bureau B23, bâtiment G
