Publications of Simone Pika

Fröhlich, M.; Müller, G.; Zeiträg, C.; Wittig, R. M.; Pika, S.: Begging and social tolerance: Food solicitation tactics in young chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild. Evolution and Human Behavior 41 (2), pp. 126 - 135 (2020)

Pika, S.; Sima, M. J.; Blum, C. R.; Herrmann, E.; Mundry, R.: Ravens parallel great apes in physical and social cognitive skills. Scientific Reports 10, 20617 (2020)

Ben-Mocha, Y.; Pika, S.: Intentional presentation of objects in cooperatively breeding arabian babblers (Turdoides squamiceps). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7, 87 (2019)

Fröhlich, M.; Wittig, R. M.; Pika, S.: The ontogeny of intentional communication in chimpanzees in the wild. Developmental Science 22 (1), e12716 (2019)

Nicoladis, E.; Marentette, P. F.; Pika, S.; Gonçalves Barbosa, P.: Young children show little sensitivity to the iconicity in number gestures. Language Learning and Development 14 (4), pp. 297 - 319 (2018)

Sima, M. J.; Matzinger, T.; Bugnyar, T.; Pika, S.: Reconciliation and third-party affiliation in carrion crows. Ethology 124 (1), pp. 33 - 44 (2018)

Fröhlich, M.; Müller, G.; Zeiträg, C.; Wittig, R. M.; Pika, S.: Gestural development of chimpanzees in the wild: The impact of interactional experience. Animal Behaviour 134, pp. 271 - 282 (2017)

Luef, E. M.; Pika, S.: Reciprocal greeting in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) at the Ngogo community. Journal of Neurolinguistics 43 (Part B), pp. 263 - 273 (2017)

Luef, E. M.; Ter Maat, A.; Pika, S.: Vocal similarity in long-distance and short-distance vocalizations in raven pairs (Corvus corax) in captivity. Behavioural Processes 142, pp. 1 - 7 (2017)

Pika, S.: Unpeeling the layers of communicative complexity. Animal Behaviour 134, pp. 223 - 227 (2017)

Prieur, J.; Pika, S.; Barbu, S.; Blois-Heulin, C.: Intraspecific gestural laterality in chimpanzees and gorillas and the impact of social propensities. Brain Research 1670, pp. 52 - 67 (2017)

Fröhlich, M.; Kuchenbuch, P.; Müller, G.; Fruth, B.; Furuichi, T.; Wittig, R. M.; Pika, S.: Unpeeling the layers of language: Bonobos and chimpanzees engage in cooperative turn-taking sequences. Scientific Reports 6, 25887 (2016)

Fröhlich, M.; Wittig, R. M.; Pika, S.: Should I stay or should I go? Initiation of joint travel in mother–infant dyads of two chimpanzee communities in the wild. Animal Cognition 19 (3), pp. 483 - 500 (2016)

Fröhlich, M.; Wittig, R. M.; Pika, S.: Play-solicitation gestures in chimpanzees in the wild: Flexible adjustment to social circumstances and individual matrices. Royal Society Open Science 3 (8), 160278 (2016)

Luef, E. M.; Breuer, T.; Pika, S.: Food-associated calling in gorillas (Gorilla g. gorilla) in the wild. PLoS One 11 (2), e0144197 (2016)

Pika, S.: Response to: Commentary: The use of referential gestures in ravens (Corvus corax) in the wild. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 4, 121 (2016)

Prieur, J.; Pika, S.; Barbu, S.; Blois-Heulin, C.: A multifactorial investigation of captive chimpanzees' intraspecific gestural laterality. Animal Behaviour 116, pp. 31 - 43 (2016)

Prieur, J.; Pika, S.; Barbu, S.; Blois-Heulin, C.: Gorillas are right-handed for their most frequent intraspecific gestures. Animal Behaviour 118, pp. 165 - 170 (2016)

Sima, M. J.; Pika, S.; Bugnyar, T.: Experimental manipulation of food accessibility affects conflict management behaviour in ravens. Ethology 122 (2), pp. 114 - 126 (2016)

Child, S. F. J.; Theakston, A.; Pika, S.: How do modelled gestures influence preschool children's spontaneous gesture production? Social versus semantic influence. Gesture 14 (1), pp. 1 - 25 (2014)

Luef, E. M.; Pika, S.: Acoustical variation and contextual specificity of a gorilla vocalization: A case study. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences 3 (6), pp. 192 - 196 (2014)

Luef, E. M.; Pika, S.: Gorilla mothers also matter! New insights on social transmission in gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in captivity. PLoS One 8 (11), e79600 (2013)

Pika, S.: The case of referential gestural signaling. Where next? Communicative & integrative biology 5 (6), pp. 578 - 582 (2012)

Clay, Z.; Pika, S.; Gruber, T.; Zuberbühler, K.: Female bonobos use copulation calls as social signals. Biology Letters 7 (4), pp. 513 - 516 (2011)

Pika, S.: Schau Dir das an: Raben verwenden hinweisende Gesten. Jahrbuch - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (2011)

Pika, S.; Bugnyar, T.: The use of referential gestures in ravens (Corvus corax) in the wild. Nature Communications 2, 560 (2011)

Nicoladis, E.; Pika, S.; Marentette, P. F.: Are number gestures easier than number words for preschoolers? Cognitive Development 25 (3), pp. 247 - 261 (2010)

Nicoladis, E.; Pika, S.; Marentette, P. F.: Do French-English bilingual children gesture more than monolingual children? Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 38 (6), pp. 573 - 585 (2009)

Pika, S.: Our grooming cousins: Providing the link to declarative signalling? Studies in Communication Sciences 9, pp. 73 - 102 (2009)

Pika, S.; Nicoladis, E.; Marentette, P. F.: How to order a beer? Cultural differences in the use of conventional gestures for numerals. Journal for Cross-Cultural Psychology 40 (1), pp. 70 - 80 (2009)

Pika, S.: Gestures of apes and pre-linguistic human children: Similar or different? First Language 28 (2), pp. 116 - 140 (2008)

Pika, S.; Zuberbühler, K.: Social games between bonobos and humans: Evidence for shared intentionality? American Journal of Primatology 70 (3), pp. 207 - 210 (2008)

Nicoladis, E.; Pika, S.; Yin, H.; Marentette, P. F.: Gesture use in story recall by Chinese–English bilinguals. Applied Psycholinguistics 28 (4), pp. 721 - 735 (2007)

Pika, S.; Mitani, J. C.: Referential gestural communication in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Current Biology 16 (6), pp. R191 - R192 (2006)

Pika, S.; Nicoladis, M.; Marentette, P. F.: A cross-cultural study on the use of gestures: Evidence for cross-linguistic transfer? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 9 (3), pp. 319 - 327 (2006)

Pika, S.; Liebal, K. (Eds.): Developments in primate gesture research. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam (2012), 256 pp.

Pika, S.: Gestural communication in nonhuman species. In: Emerging trends in the social and behavioral sciences: An interdisciplinary, searchable, and linkable resource, pp. 1 - 11 (Eds. Scott, R. A.; Kosslyn, S. M.; Pinkerton, N.). Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, USA (2015)

Pika, S.: Chimpanzee grooming gestures and sounds: What might they tell us about how language evolved? In: The social origins of language: Early society, communication and polymodality, pp. 129 - 140 (Eds. Dor, D.; Knight, C.; Lewis, J.). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK (2014)

Hopkins, W.D.; Pika, S.; Liebal, K.; Bania, A.; Meguerditchian, A.; Gardner, M.; Schapiro, S. J.: Handedness for manual gestures in great apes. In: Developments in primate gesture research, pp. 93 - 112 (Eds. Pika, S.; Liebal, K.). John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam (2012)

Liebal, K.; Pika, S.: Where next? In: Developments in primate gesture research, pp. 241 - 252 (Eds. Pika, S.; Liebal, K.). John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam (2012)

Pika, S.; Liebal, K.: Introduction. In: Developments in primate gesture research, pp. 1 - 12 (Eds. Pika, S.; Liebal, K.). John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam (2012)

Scott, N.; Pika, S.: A call for conformity. In: Developments in primate gesture research, pp. 147 - 164 (Eds. Pika, S.; Liebal, K.). John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam (2012)

Wilkinson, R.; Leudar, I.; Pika, S.: Requesting behaviors within episodes of active sharing. In: Developments in primate gesture research, pp. 199 - 222 (Eds. Pika, S.; Liebal, K.). John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam (2012)

Pika, S.: Evidence for intentional and referential communication in great apes? In: The shared mind, pp. 165 - 186 (Eds. Zlatev, J.; Racine, T.; Sinha, C.; Itkonen, E.). John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam (2008)

Pika, S.; Mitani, J. C.: The directed scratch: Evidence for a referential gesture in chimpanzees? In: The prehistory of language, pp. 166 - 180 (Eds. Botha, R.; Knight, C.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2008)

Pika, S.: Gestures in subadult Bonobos (Pan paniscus). In: The gestural communication of monkeys and apes, pp. 41 - 67 (Eds. Call, J.; Tomasello, M.). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New York (2007)

Pika, S.: Gestures in subadult gorillas (Gorilla gorilla). In: The gestural communication of monkeys and apes, pp. 99 - 130 (Eds. Call, J.; Tomasello, M.). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New York (2007)

Pika, S.; Liebal, K.: Differences and similarities between the natural gestural communication of the great apes and human children. In: The evolution of language, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference (Evolang 6), pp. 267 - 274 (Eds. Cangelosi, A.; Smith, A. D. M.; Smith, K.). The evolution of language, 6th International Conference (Evolang 6), Roma, April 12, 2006 - April 15, 2006. World Scientific Publishing, London (2006)

Liebal, K.; Pika, S.: “Hands-on communication”: Use of gestures in apes and humans. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS). Interacting Bodies, Lyon; France, June 15, 2005 - June 18, 2005. (2005)

Pika, S.: The Gestural Origin of Language. By David F. Armstrong and Sherman E. Wilcox (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 151, ISBN 978-0-19-516348-3). International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 44 (1), pp. 112 - 113 (2009)