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Joël Fagot is a researcher affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France, with a primary focus on psychology. Their scholarly contributions span core areas such as developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, signal processing, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their research predominantly addresses topics related to child and animal learning development, primate behavior and ecology, animal vocal communication and behavior, visual perception and processing mechanisms, action observation and synchronization, as well as music and speech audio processing.

Joël Fagot has collaborated frequently with a number of scholars, including:

  • Arnaud Rey
  • Nicolas Claidière
  • Laure Tosatto
  • Guillem Bonafos
  • Jean-Marc Freyermuth

Publications by Joël Fagot have appeared extensively in scientific venues such as:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Learning & Behavior
  • PLoS ONE
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Comparative Psychology

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Joël Fagot are:

  • "Sensitivity to geometric shape regularity in humans and baboons: A putative signature of human singularity" (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The Evolution of Chunks in Sequence Learning" (2022), Cognitive Science
  • "The experimental emergence of convention in a non-human primate" (2021), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Baboons (Papio papio) Process a Context-Free but Not a Context-Sensitive Grammar" (2020), Scientific Reports
  • "Simultaneous learning of directional and non-directional stimulus relations in baboons (Papio papio)" (2022), Learning & Behavior

Best Publications

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

    Joël Fagot;Jacques Vauclair

  • Processing of global and local visual information and hemispheric specialization in humans (Homo sapiens) and baboons (Papio papio).

    Joël Fagot;Christine Deruelle

  • Evidence for large long-term memory capacities in baboons and pigeons and its implications for learning and the evolution of cognition.

    Joël Fagot;Robert G. Cook

  • Automated testing of cognitive performance in monkeys: use of a battery of computerized test systems by a troop of semi-free-ranging baboons (Papio papio).

    Joël Fagot;Joël Fagot;Elodie Bonté

  • Cultural evolution of systematically structured behaviour in a non-human primate.

    Nicolas Claidière;Kenny Smith;Simon Kirby;Joël Fagot

  • Orthographic Processing in Baboons (Papio papio)

    Jonathan Grainger;Stéphane Dufau;Marie Montant;Johannes C. Ziegler

  • Discriminating the relation between relations: the role of entropy in abstract conceptualization by baboons (Papio papio) and humans (Homo sapiens).

    Joël Fagot;Edward A. Wasserman;Michael E. Young

  • Automatic testing of cognitive performance in baboons maintained in social groups.

    Joël Fagot;Dany Paleressompoulle

  • The repeatability of cognitive performance: a meta-analysis

    Maxime Cauchoix;P Chow;P Chow;J van Horik;C Atance

  • Global and local processing in humans (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Use of a visual search task with compound stimuli.

    Joël Fagot;Masaki Tomonaga

  • Handedness and bimanual coordination in the lowland gorilla

    Joël Fagot;Jacques Vauclair

  • Evidence of a Vocalic Proto-System in the Baboon (Papio papio) Suggests Pre-Hominin Speech Precursors

    Louis-Jean Boë;Frédéric Berthommier;Thierry Legou;Guillaume Captier

  • Picture Perception in Animals

    Joel Fagot

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

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

  • Visual search for global/local stimulus features in humans and baboons

    Christine Deruelle;Joël Fagot

  • Local and global processing: Observations from a remote culture

    Jules Davidoff;Elisabeth Fonteneau;Joel Fagot

  • More Accurate Size Contrast Judgments in the Ebbinghaus Illusion by a Remote Culture

    Jan de Fockert;Jules Davidoff;Joel Fagot;Carole Parron

  • Asymmetrical hand use in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) in tactually and visually regulated tasks.

    Joël Fagot;Christine M. Drea;Kim Wallen

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacques Vauclair
Jacques Vauclair Aix-Marseille University
Christine Deruelle
Christine Deruelle Aix-Marseille University
Jonathan Grainger
Jonathan Grainger Aix-Marseille University
Johannes C. Ziegler
Johannes C. Ziegler Aix-Marseille University
Edward A. Wasserman
Edward A. Wasserman University of Iowa
William D. Hopkins
William D. Hopkins University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jules Davidoff
Jules Davidoff Goldsmiths University of London
Simon Kirby
Simon Kirby University of Edinburgh
Masaki Tomonaga
Masaki Tomonaga University of Human Environments
Jeffrey Rogers
Jeffrey Rogers Baylor College of Medicine

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