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W. Tecumseh Fitch

W. Tecumseh Fitch

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Neuroscience

D-Index
61
Citations
28340
World Ranking
3594
National Ranking
24

Overview

W. Tecumseh Fitch is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria. Their research spans multiple fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Psychology, and Neuroscience, with notable contributions across these disciplines.

The scientist has contributed to various subfields such as Developmental Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Ecology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Their work addresses prominent topics including Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, Marine animal studies overview, Neuroscience and Music Perception, Music and Audio Processing, Language and cultural evolution, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, and Multisensory perception and integration.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with W. Tecumseh Fitch include Theresa Matzinger, Felix Haiduk, Raffaela Lesch, Jacob C. Dunn, and Andrew C. Kitchener. These collaborations have contributed to research published in well-regarded scientific venues.

Key publication venues where their work appears frequently are:

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Current Biology
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Recent papers by W. Tecumseh Fitch and associates cover a range of topics in behavioral biology and animal vocalizations. These include:

  • Music as a coevolved system for social bonding (2020, Behavioral and Brain Sciences)
  • Evolutionary loss of complexity in human vocal anatomy as an adaptation for speech (2022, Science)
  • Vocal learning in animals and humans (2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • Toward inclusive theories of the evolution of musicality (2021, Behavioral and Brain Sciences)
  • Evolutionary novelties underlie sound production in baleen whales (2024, Nature)

Best Publications

  • The faculty of language: what is it, who has it, and how did it evolve?

    Marc D. Hauser;Noam Chomsky;W. Tecumseh Fitch

  • The evolution of speech: a comparative review

    W.Tecumseh Fitch

  • Morphology and development of the human vocal tract: a study using magnetic resonance imaging.

    W. Tecumseh Fitch;Jay Giedd

  • The evolution of the language faculty: Clarifications and implications

    W. Tecumseh Fitch;Marc D. Hauser;Noam Chomsky

  • The “Domestication Syndrome” in Mammals: A Unified Explanation Based on Neural Crest Cell Behavior and Genetics

    Adam S. Wilkins;Adam S. Wilkins;Richard W. Wrangham;Richard W. Wrangham;W. Tecumseh Fitch

  • The biology and evolution of music: A comparative perspective

    W. Tecumseh Fitch

  • Calls out of chaos: the adaptive significance of nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal production

    W.Tecumseh Fitch;Jürgen Neubauer;Hanspeter Herzel

  • Birds have primate-like numbers of neurons in the forebrain.

    Seweryn Olkowicz;Martin Kocourek;Radek K. Lučan;Michal Porteš

  • Motion events in language and cognition.

    Silvia P. Gennari;Steven A. Sloman;Barbara C. Malt;W. Tecumseh Fitch

  • Music as a coevolved system for social bonding

    Patrick E. Savage;Psyche Loui;Bronwyn Tarr;Adena Schachner

  • Finding the beat: a neural perspective across humans and non-human primates

    Hugo Merchant;Jessica Grahn;Laurel Trainor;Martin Rohrmeier

  • Social Cognition and the Evolution of Language: Constructing Cognitive Phylogenies

    W. Tecumseh Fitch;Ludwig Huber;Thomas Bugnyar

  • The evolution of language: a comparative review

    W. Tecumseh Fitch

  • Monkey vocal tracts are speech-ready

    W. Tecumseh Fitch;W. Tecumseh Fitch;Bart de Boer;Neil Mathur;Asif A. Ghazanfar

  • The Evolution of Human Language: The faculty of language: what is it, who has it, and how did it evolve?

    Marc D. Hauser;Noam Chomsky;W. Tecumseh Fitch

  • Toward a computational framework for cognitive biology: unifying approaches from cognitive neuroscience and comparative cognition.

    W. Tecumseh Fitch

  • Hierarchical processing in music, language, and action: Lashley revisited

    W. Tecumseh Fitch;Mauricio D. Martins

  • Artificial grammar learning meets formal language theory: an overview

    W. Tecumseh Fitch;Angela D. Friederici

  • Perception and Production of Syncopated Rhythms

    W. Tecumseh Fitch;Andrew J. Rosenfeld

  • Empirical approaches to the study of language evolution.

    W. Tecumseh Fitch

  • Cineradiography of monkey lip-smacking reveals putative precursors of speech dynamics.

    Asif A. Ghazanfar;Daniel Y. Takahashi;Neil Mathur;W. Tecumseh Fitch

  • Rhythmic cognition in humans and animals: distinguishing meter and pulse perception

    W Tecumseh Fitch

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc D. Hauser
Marc D. Hauser Harvard University
Thomas Bugnyar
Thomas Bugnyar University of Vienna
Hugo Merchant
Hugo Merchant National Autonomous University of Mexico
Arno Villringer
Arno Villringer Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Asif A. Ghazanfar
Asif A. Ghazanfar Princeton University
Laurel J. Trainor
Laurel J. Trainor McMaster University
Ludwig Huber
Ludwig Huber University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Anne Fernald
Anne Fernald Stanford University
Lori L. Holt
Lori L. Holt Carnegie Mellon University
Peter F. MacNeilage
Peter F. MacNeilage The University of Texas at Austin

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