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Jacques Vauclair

Jacques Vauclair

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Psychology

D-Index
42
Citations
6687
World Ranking
7605
National Ranking
71

Overview

Jacques Vauclair is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France. Their research spans multiple fields within social sciences and psychology, with specific focus areas encompassing social psychology, sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, genetics, and developmental and educational psychology.

Their scholarly work encompasses several interconnected topics, including:

  • French Urban and Social Studies
  • Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Language and Cultural Evolution
  • Action Observation and Synchronization

Jacques Vauclair's publication record includes contributions in notable venues such as Infant Behavior and Development and Revue de primatologie. Their recent papers include:

  • "Maternal cradling bias: A marker of the nature of the mother-infant relationship" (2021), published in Infant Behavior and Development
  • "Pierre Le Neindre et Bertrand L. Deputte. Vivre parmi les animaux, mieux les comprendre." (2021), published in Revue de primatologie

They also have a book publication titled L'homme et l'animal: cognition comparée (2020), released by Presses Universitaires de Paris Nanterre.

Within their research collaborations, no frequent co-authors have been identified from the available source data.

Best Publications

  • Manual laterality in nonhuman primates : a distinction between handedness and manual specialization

    Joël Fagot;Jacques Vauclair

  • Rhesus monkeys use geometric and nongeometric information during a reorientation task

    S Gouteux;C Thinus-Blanc;J Vauclair

  • Picture recognition in animals and humans.

    Dalila Bovet;Jacques Vauclair;Jacques Vauclair

  • The communicative context of object manipulation in ape and human adult-infant pairs

    K.A. Bard;J. Vauclair

  • Pointing gestures produced by toddlers from 15 to 30 months: different functions, hand shapes and laterality patterns.

    Hélène Cochet;Jacques Vauclair

  • Hand preferences for unimanual and coordinated bimanual tasks in baboons (Papio anubis)

    Jacques Vauclair;Adrien Meguerditchian;William D. Hopkins;William D. Hopkins

  • Handedness and bimanual coordination in the lowland gorilla

    Joël Fagot;Jacques Vauclair

  • L'intelligence de l'animal

    Jacques Vauclair

  • Animal Cognition: An Introduction to Modern Comparative Psychology

    Jacques Vauclair

  • On the origins of human handedness and language: a comparative review of hand preferences for bimanual coordinated actions and gestural communication in nonhuman primates.

    Adrien Meguerditchian;Jacques Vauclair;William D. Hopkins

  • Baboons communicate with their right hand

    Adrien Meguerditchian;Adrien Meguerditchian;Jacques Vauclair

  • Laterality in cats: paw preference and performance in a visuomotor activity.

    M. Fabre-Thorpe;J. Fagot;E. Lorincz;F. Levesque

  • Infant holding biases and their relations to hemispheric specializations for perceiving facial emotions

    Jacques Vauclair;Julien Donnot

  • Development of manipulations with objects in ape and human infants

    Jacques Vauclair;Kim A. Bard

  • Judgment of conceptual identity in monkeys.

    Dalila Bovet;Jacques Vauclair

  • SPONTANEOUS HAND USAGE AND HANDEDNESS IN A TROOP OF BABOONS

    Jacques Vauclair;Joël Fagot

  • Handedness and manual specialization in the baboon.

    Joël Fagot;Jacques Vauclair

  • Captive chimpanzees use their right hand to communicate with each other: Implications for the origin of the cerebral substrate for language

    Adrien Meguerditchian;Adrien Meguerditchian;Jacques Vauclair;William D. Hopkins;William D. Hopkins

  • Rotation of Mental Images in Baboons When the Visual Input Is Directed to the Left Cerebral Hemisphere

    Jacques Vauclair;Joël Fagot;William D. Hopkins;William D. Hopkins

  • Mirror-image matching and mental rotation problem solving by baboons (Papio papio): unilateral input enhances performance.

    William D. Hopkins;Joël Fagot;Jacques Vauclair

  • Primate ontogeny, cognition and social behavior J.G. Else and P.C. Lee, Eds. Cambridge University Press, 1986. 410 pp. ISBN: 0-521-32452-1 H/c (price: £ 37.50, $ 59.50); 0-521-31013-X P/b (£ 12.50, $ 19.95).

    Jacques Vauclair

Frequent Co-Authors

Joël Fagot
Joël Fagot Aix-Marseille University
William D. Hopkins
William D. Hopkins University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kim A. Bard
Kim A. Bard University of Portsmouth
Steven J. Schapiro
Steven J. Schapiro The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
John K. Kruschke
John K. Kruschke Indiana University

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