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Overview

Lydia M. Hopper is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with an emphasis on social psychology, small animals, genetics, cognitive neuroscience, and sensory systems.

Their research topics cover:

  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • American Journal of Primatology
  • Animal Behavior and Cognition
  • Animals
  • International Journal of Primatology
  • Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Lydia M. Hopper include:

  • The zone of latent solutions and its relevance to understanding ape cultures, 2020, Biology & Philosophy
  • The application of noninvasive, restraint-free eye-tracking methods for use with nonhuman primates, 2020, Behavior Research Methods
  • A Comparative Perspective on Three Primate Species' Responses to a Pictorial Emotional Stroop Task, 2021, Animals
  • Using a Touchscreen Paradigm to Evaluate Food Preferences and Response to Novel Photographic Stimuli of Food in Three Primate Species (Gorilla gorilla gorilla, Pan troglodytes, and Macaca fuscata), 2020, International Journal of Primatology
  • Food Cleaning by Japanese Macaques: Innate, Innovative or Cultural?, 2020, Folia Primatologica

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Stephen R. Ross
  • Jesse G. Leinwand
  • Sarah M. Huskisson
  • Crystal L. Egelkamp
  • Amy Fultz

Best Publications

  • Emulation, imitation, over-imitation and the scope of culture for child and chimpanzee.

    Andrew Whiten;Nicola McGuigan;Sarah Marshall-Pescini;Sarah Marshall-Pescini;Lydia M. Hopper;Lydia M. Hopper

  • Chimpanzees copy dominant and knowledgeable individuals: implications for cultural diversity

    Rachel Kendal;Lydia M. Hopper;Andrew Whiten;Sarah F. Brosnan;Sarah F. Brosnan

  • Experimental studies of traditions and underlying transmission processes in chimpanzees

    Lydia M. Hopper;Antoine Spiteri;Susan P. Lambeth;Steven J. Schapiro

  • Observational learning in chimpanzees and children studied through 'ghost' conditions.

    Lydia M Hopper;Susan P Lambeth;Steven J Schapiro;Andrew Whiten

  • Social networks in primates: smart and tolerant species have more efficient networks

    Cristian Pasquaretta;Cristian Pasquaretta;Marine Levé;Marine Levé;Marine Levé;Nicolas Claidière;Erica van de Waal

  • Chimpanzees' socially maintained food preferences indicate both conservatism and conformity.

    Lydia M. Hopper;Steven J. Schapiro;Susan P. Lambeth;Sarah F. Brosnan

  • Establishing an infrastructure for collaboration in primate cognition research.

    Many Primates;Drew M. Altschul;Michael J. Beran;Manuel Bohn;Manuel Bohn

  • Developing a comprehensive and comparative questionnaire for measuring personality in chimpanzees using a simultaneous top‐down/bottom‐up design

    Hani D. Freeman;Hani D. Freeman;Sarah F. Brosnan;Sarah F. Brosnan;Lydia M. Hopper;Lydia M. Hopper;Susan P. Lambeth

  • 'Ghost' experiments and the dissection of social learning in humans and animals.

    Lydia M. Hopper

  • The zone of latent solutions and its relevance to understanding ape cultures

    Claudio Tennie;Elisa Bandini;Carel P. van Schaik;Lydia M. Hopper

  • Selective and contagious prosocial resource donation in capuchin monkeys, chimpanzees and humans

    Nicolas Claidière;Andrew Whiten;Mary C. Mareno;Emily J. E. Messer

  • Observational learning of tool use in children: Investigating cultural spread through diffusion chains and learning mechanisms through ghost displays

    Lydia M. Hopper;Emma G. Flynn;Lara A.N. Wood;Andrew Whiten

  • End state copying by humans (Homo sapiens): implications for a comparative perspective on cumulative culture.

    Christine A. Caldwell;Kerstin Schillinger;Cara L. Evans;Lydia M. Hopper

  • Personality influences responses to inequity and contrast in chimpanzees

    Sarah F. Brosnan;Lydia M. Hopper;Sean Richey;Hani D. Freeman

  • Psychological limits on animal innovation

    Sarah F. Brosnan;Lydia M. Hopper

  • Influence of personality, age, sex, and estrous state on chimpanzee problem-solving success

    Lydia M. Hopper;Lydia M. Hopper;Sara A. Price;Sara A. Price;Sara A. Price;Hani D. Freeman;Hani D. Freeman;Susan P. Lambeth

  • Cognitive research in zoos

    Lydia M Hopper

  • Studying primate cognition in a social setting to improve validity and welfare: a literature review highlighting successful approaches.

    Katherine A. Cronin;Sarah L. Jacobson;Kristin E. Bonnie;Kristin E. Bonnie;Lydia M. Hopper

  • The importance of witnessed agency in chimpanzee social learning of tool use.

    Lydia M. Hopper;Susan P. Lambeth;Steven J. Schapiro;Andrew Whiten

  • Social comparison mediates chimpanzees’ responses to loss, not frustration

    Lydia M. Hopper;Lydia M. Hopper;Lydia M. Hopper;Susan P. Lambeth;Steven J. Schapiro;Steven J. Schapiro;Sarah F. Brosnan;Sarah F. Brosnan

  • Social networks in primates: smart and tolerant species have more efficient

    Andrew J. J. MacIntosh;Marie Pele;Mackenzie L. Bergstrom;Sarah F. Brosnan

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen R. Ross
Stephen R. Ross Lincoln Park Zoo
Steven J. Schapiro
Steven J. Schapiro The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Sarah F. Brosnan
Sarah F. Brosnan Georgia State University
Andrew Whiten
Andrew Whiten University of St Andrews
Samuel D. Gosling
Samuel D. Gosling The University of Texas at Austin
Michael J. Beran
Michael J. Beran Georgia State University
Daniel B. M. Haun
Daniel B. M. Haun Max Planck Society
Esther Herrmann
Esther Herrmann University of Portsmouth
Amanda L. Woodward
Amanda L. Woodward University of Chicago
Josep Call
Josep Call University of St Andrews

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