2025
Watson, S. K., Nawroth, C., McElligott, A. G., Rossano, F., & Townsend, S. W. (2025). Domestic goats can follow the direction of human voices to solve a hidden-object task (p. 2025.12.08.692563). bioRxiv. (link)
Bristol, R., Alhaqab, S., & Rossano, F. (2025). Narratives about epistemic trespassing. Text & Talk, 45(4), 439–459. (link)
Heesen, R., Bangerter, A., Zuberbühler, K., Iglesias, K., Rossano, F., Guéry, J.-P., & Genty, E. (2025). Potential evidence of reengagement attempts following interruptions of a triadic social game in bonobos and chimpanzees. PLOS ONE, 20(3), e0292984. (link)
Graham, K. E., Rossano, F., & Moore, R. T. (2025). The origin of great ape gestural forms. Biological Reviews, 100(1), 190–204. (link)
Kaufhold, S. P., Terwilliger, J., & Rossano, F. (2025). Socially Situated Navigation: Social Rank and Sex Influence Spatial Navigation Strategies in Japanese Macaques. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47(0). (link)
Terwilliger, J., & Rossano, F. (2025). Initiation Asymmetry in the Ontogenesis of Social Routines: In Conversation, Caregivers Scaffold 1-Year Olds to Respond, but 2-year Olds Initiate. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47(0). (link)
2024
Bastos, A. P., Houghton, Z. N., Naranjo, L., & Rossano, F. (2024). Soundboard-trained dogs produce non-accidental, non-random and non-imitative two-button combinations. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 28771. (link)
Ma, X., Lin, Y., Xu, Y., Kaufhold, S. P., Terwilliger, J., Meza, A., Zhu, Y., Rossano, F., & Wang, Y. (2024). AlphaChimp: Tracking and Behavior Recognition of Chimpanzees (No. arXiv:2410.17136). arXiv. (link)
Bastos, A. P., Evenson, A., Wood, P. M., Houghton, Z. N., Naranjo, L., Smith, G. E., Cairo-Evans, A., Korpos, L., Terwilliger, J., & Raghunath, S. (2024). How do soundboard-trained dogs respond to human button presses? An investigation into word comprehension. PloS One, 19(8), e0307189. (link)
Kaufhold, S. P., Sánchez-Amaro, A., Tan, J., Fernandez-Navarro, S., Atencia, R., & Rossano, F. (2024). Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) strategically manipulate their environment to deny conspecifics access to food. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 17579. (link)
Laumer, I. B., Winkler, S. L., Rossano, F., & Cartmill, E. A. (2024). Spontaneous playful teasing in four great ape species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291(2016), 20232345. (link)
Tu, P., Stacy, S., & Rossano, F. (2024). As Long as It Catches Mice …. In S. Gupta & P. H. Tu, The Practical Philosophy of AI-Assistants (pp. 133–143). (link)
2023
Ma, X., Kaufhold, S., Su, J., Zhu, W., Terwilliger, J., Meza, A., Zhu, Y., Rossano, F., & Wang, Y. (2023). Chimpact: A longitudinal dataset for understanding chimpanzee behaviors. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 36, 27501–27531. (link)
Bastos, A. P. M., & Rossano, F. (2023). Soundboard-using pets?: Introducing a new global citizen science approach to interspecies communication. Interaction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 24(2), 311–334. (link)
Heesen, R., Bangerter, A., Zuberbühler, K., Iglesias, K., Rossano, F., Guéry, J.-P., & Genty, E. (2023). Chimpanzees and bonobos reinstate an interrupted triadic game (p. 2023.10.05.560857). bioRxiv. (link)
Rossano, F. (2023). How to study interactional history in non-human animals? Challenges and opportunities. In Ethnomethodological conversation analysis in motion: Emerging methods and new technologies. (pp. 21–41) Routledge. (link)
Winokur, E. J., Song, C., Leija, E. S., Chen, J., Kross, S., Shamam, D., Aguilar-Rivera, M., Quinn, L., Rossano, F., Chiba, A. A. Reciprocity in dyads and triads: Female rats alter their prosocial behavior according to the social context. (2023). Animal Behavior and Cognition, 10(3), 169–210. (link)
Smith, G. E., Bastos, A. P. M., Evenson, A., Trottier, L., & Rossano, F. (2023). Use of Augmentative Interspecies Communication devices in animal language studies: A review. WIREs Cognitive Science, 14(4), e1647. (link)
Sánchez-Amaro, A., & Rossano, F. (2023). Comparative curiosity: How do great apes and children deal with uncertainty? PLoS One, 18(5), e0285946. (link)
Dingemanse, M., Liesenfeld, A., Rasenberg, M., Albert, S., Ameka, F. K., Birhane, A., Bolis, D., Cassell, J., Clift, R., Cuffari, E., De Jaegher, H., Novaes, C. D., Enfield, N. J., Fusaroli, R., Gregoromichelaki, E., Hutchins, E., Konvalinka, I., Milton, D., Rączaszek‐Leonardi, J., … Wiltschko, M. (2023). Beyond Single‐Mindedness: A Figure‐Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences. Cognitive Science, 47(1), e13230. (link)
Li, Y., Chen, X., Zhao, H., Gong, J., Zhou, G., Rossano, F., & Zhu, Y. (2023). Understanding Embodied Reference with Touch-Line Transformer. ICLR. (link)
2022
Bristol, R., & Rossano, F. (2022). Remediation of infelicitous epistemic stance. Journal of Pragmatics, 199, 60–71. (link)
Bangerter, A., Genty, E., Heesen, R., Rossano, F., & Zuberbühler, K. (2022). Every product needs a process: Unpacking joint commitment as a process across species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1859), 20210095. (link)
Melis, A. P., & Rossano, F. (2022). When and how do non-human great apes communicate to support cooperation? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1859), 20210109. (link)
Rossano, F., Terwilliger, J., Bangerter, A., Genty, E., Heesen, R., & Zuberbühler, K. (2022). How 2- and 4-year-old children coordinate social interactions with peers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1859), 20210100. (link)
Zhao, M., Tang, N., Dahmani, A. L., Zhu, Y., Rossano, F., & Gao, T. (2022). Sharing Rewards Undermines Coordinated Hunting. Journal of Computational Biology, 29(9), 1022–1030. (link)
Yuan, L., Gao, X., Zheng, Z., Edmonds, M., Wu, Y. N., Rossano, F., Lu, H., Zhu, Y., & Zhu, S.-C. (2022). In situ bidirectional human-robot value alignment. Science Robotics, 7(68), eabm4183. (link)
Jiang, K., Stacy, S., Dahmani, A. L., Jiang, B., Rossano, F., Zhu, Y., & Gao, T. (2022). What is the point? A theory of mind model of relevance. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 44(44). (link)
2021
Siguín, M., Blanco, T., Rossano, F., & Casas, R. (2021). Modular e-collar for animal telemetry: An animal-centered design proposal. Sensors, 22(1), 300. (link)
Heesen, R., Zuberbühler, K., Bangerter, A., Iglesias, K., Rossano, F., Pajot, A., Guéry, J.-P., & Genty, E. (2021). Evidence of joint commitment in great apes’ natural joint actions. Royal Society Open Science, 8(12), 211121. (link)
Sánchez-Amaro, A., & Rossano, F. (2021). Chimpanzees and bonobos use social leverage in an ultimatum game. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1962), 20211937. (link)
Heesen, R., Bangerter, A., Zuberbühler, K., Iglesias, K., Neumann, C., Pajot, A., Perrenoud, L., Guéry, J.-P., Rossano, F., & Genty, E. (2021). Assessing joint commitment as a process in great apes. IScience, 24(8). (link)
Jiang, K., Stacy, S., Wei, C., Chan, A., Rossano, F., Zhu, Y., & Gao, T. (2021). Individual vs. Joint Perception: A Pragmatic Model of Pointing as Communicative Smithian Helping (No. arXiv:2106.02003). arXiv. (link)
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Tan, J., Kaufhold, S. P., Fernández-Navarro, S., & Rossano, F. (2021). How environmental unpredictability and harshness affect chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in risk-choice and temporal discounting tasks. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 135(2), 232. (link)
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Ball, R., & Rossano, F. (2021). Gibbon strategies in a food competition task. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 9312. (link)
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Burkart, J. M., & Rossano, F. (2021). Marmoset monkeys overcome dyadic social dilemmas while avoiding mutual defection. Animal Behaviour, 173, 93–104. (link)
Rossano, F., & Kaufhold, S. P. (2021). Animal communication overview. In The Cambridge handbook of animal cognition (pp. 5–35). Cambridge University Press. (link)
Zhao, M., Tang, N., Dahmani, A. L., Perry, R. R., Zhu, Y., Rossano, F., & Gao, T. (2021). Sharing is not needed: Modeling animal coordinated hunting with reinforcement learning. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43(43). (link)
2020
Genty, E., Heesen, R., Guéry, J.-P., Rossano, F., Zuberbühler, K., & Bangerter, A. (2020). How apes get into and out of joint actions: Shared intentionality as an interactional achievement. Interaction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 21(3), 353–386. (link)
Heesen, R., Bangerter, A., Zuberbühler, K., Rossano, F., Iglesias, K., Guéry, J.-P., & Genty, E. (2020). Bonobos engage in joint commitment. Science Advances, 6(51), eabd1306. (link)
Kaufhold, S. P., & Rossano, F. (2020). Proximate mechanisms and relational history: The interdependence of food transfers in socially housed orang-utans (Pongo abelii). Animal Behaviour, 167, 243–253. (link)
Trott, S., & Rossano, F. (2020). The Role of Entitlement in Formatting Preferences Across Requesters and Recipients. Discourse Processes, 57(7), 551–572. (link)
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Tan, J., Kaufhold, S. P., & Rossano, F. (2020). Gibbons exploit information about what a competitor can see. Animal Cognition, 23(2), 289–299. (link)
Bristol, R., & Rossano, F. (2020). Epistemic trespassing and disagreement. Journal of Memory and Language, 110, 104067. (link)
Kanngiesser, P., Rossano, F., Frickel, R., Tomm, A., & Tomasello, M. (2020). Children, but not great apes, respect ownership. Developmental Science, 23(1), e12842. (link)
2019
Kanngiesser, P., Rossano, F., Zeidler, H., Haun, D., & Tomasello, M. (2019). Children’s respect for ownership across diverse societies. Developmental Psychology, 55(11), 2286. (link)
Camal, L., Kirtane, A., Blanco, T., Casas, R., Rossano, F., & Aksanli, B. (2019). A Wearable Device Network to Track Animal Behavior and Relationships in the Wild. 2019 IEEE 10th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON), 0198–0202. (link)
Grocke, P., Rossano, F., & Tomasello, M. (2019). Preschoolers consider (absent) others when choosing a distribution procedure. PloS One, 14(8), e0221186. (link)
Enfield, N. J., Stivers, T., Brown, P., Englert, C., Harjunpää, K., Hayashi, M., Heinemann, T., Hoymann, G., Keisanen, T., & Rauniomaa, M. (2019). Polar answers. Journal of Linguistics, 55(2), 277–304. (link)
Amici, F., Sánchez-Amaro, A., Sebastián-Enesco, C., Cacchione, T., Allritz, M., Salazar-Bonet, J., & Rossano, F. (2019). The word order of languages predicts native speakers’ working memory. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1124. (link)
Rossano, F. (2019). The structure and timing of human versus primate social interaction. In Human Language: from Genes and Brains to Behavior. MIT Press
2018
Durkin, C., Rossano, F., & Klemmer, S. (2018). Score-Group Framing Negatively Impacts Peer Evaluations. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2(CSCW), 1–19. (link)
Poupko, J. M., Hearn, W. L., & Rossano, F. (2018). Drug Contamination of U.S. Paper Currency and Forensic Relevance of Canine Alert to Paper Currency: A Critical Review of the Scientific Literature. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 63(5), 1340–1345. (link)
John, M., Melis, A. P., Read, D., Rossano, F., & Tomasello, M. (2018). The preference for scarcity: A developmental and comparative perspective. Psychology & Marketing, 35(8), 603–615. (link)
Voutilainen, L., Rossano, F., & Peräkylä, A. (2018). Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapeutic Change. In S. Pekarek Doehler, J. Wagner, & E. González-Martínez (Eds.), Longitudinal Studies on the Organization of Social Interaction (pp. 225–254). Palgrave Macmillan UK. (link)
Grocke, P., Rossano, F., & Tomasello, M. (2018). Young children are more willing to accept group decisions in which they have had a voice. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 166, 67–78. (link)
Rossano, F. (2018). Social manipulation, turn-taking and cooperation in apes: Implications for the evolution of language-based interaction in humans. Interaction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 19(1–2), 151–166. (link)
Arbib, M. A., Aboitiz, F., Burkart, J. M., Corballis, M., Coudé, G., Hecht, E., Liebal, K., Myowa-Yamakoshi, M., Pustejovsky, J., Putt, S., Rossano, F., Russon, A. E., Schoenemann, P. T., Seifert, U., Semendeferi, K., Sinha, C., Stout, D., Volterra, V., Wacewicz, S., & Wilson, B. (2018). The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got Language. Interaction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 19(1–2), 370–387. (link)
2017
Heesen, R., Genty, E., Rossano, F., Zuberbühler, K., & Bangerter, A. (2017). Social play as joint action: A framework to study the evolution of shared intentionality as an interactional achievement. Learning & Behavior, 45(4), 390–405. (link)
Liebal, K., & Rossano, F. (2017). The give and take of food sharing in Sumatran orang-utans, Pongo abelii, and chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes. Animal Behaviour, 133, 91–100. (link)
Voelter, C. J., Rossano, F., & Call, J. (2017). Social manipulation in nonhuman primates: Cognitive and motivational determinants. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 82, 76–94. (link)
Trott, S., & Rossano, F. (2017). Theoretical Concerns for the Integration of Repair. AAAI Fall Symposia, 118–122. (link)
2016
Kanngiesser, P., Schmidt, M. F. H., & Rossano, F. (2016). Young Children’s Understanding of Social Norms and Social Institutions. In H. Kury, S. Redo, & E. Shea (Eds.), Women and Children as Victims and Offenders: Background, Prevention, Reintegration (pp. 195–210). Springer International Publishing. (link)
2015
Grocke, P., Rossano, F., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Procedural justice in children: Preschoolers accept unequal resource distributions if the procedure provides equal opportunities. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 140, 197–210. (link)
Kanngiesser, P., Rossano, F., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Late Emergence of the First Possession Heuristic: Evidence From a Small-Scale Culture. Child Development, 86(4), 1282–1289. (link)
Rossano, F., Fiedler, L., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Preschoolers’ understanding of the role of communication and cooperation in establishing property rights. Developmental Psychology, 51(2), 176. (link)
Völter, C. J., Rossano, F., & Call, J. (2015). From exploitation to cooperation: Social tool use in orang-utan mother–offspring dyads. Animal Behaviour, 100, 126–134. (link)
2014
Rossano, F., & Liebal, K. (2014). “Requests” and “offers” in orangutans and human infants. In P. Drew & E. Couper-Kuhlen (Eds.), Studies in Language and Social Interaction (Vol. 26, pp. 335–364). John Benjamins Publishing Company. (link)
Rossano, F., Nitzschner, M., & Tomasello, M. (2014). Domestic dogs and puppies can use human voice direction referentially. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1785), 20133201. (link)
2013
Bercelli, F., Rossano, F., & Viaro, M. (2013). Supra-session courses of action in psychotherapy. Journal of Pragmatics, 57, 118–137. (link)
Halina, M., Rossano, F., & Tomasello, M. (2013). The ontogenetic ritualization of bonobo gestures. Animal Cognition, 16(4), 653–666. (link)
Rossano, F. (2013). Sequence organization and timing of bonobo mother-infant interactions. Interaction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 14(2), 160–189. (link)
2012
Rossano, F. (2012). Gaze in Conversation. In J. Sidnell & T. Stivers (Eds.), The Handbook of Conversation Analysis (1st ed., pp. 308–329). Wiley. (link)
Rossano, F., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2012). One-Year-Old Infants Follow Others’ Voice Direction. Psychological Science, 23(11), 1298–1302. (link)
Rossano, F. (2012). The design and recognition of first actions in great apes. Conference Language, Culture, and Mind V, 28.
Stivers, T., & Rossano, F. (2012). Mobilizing response in interaction: A compositional view of questions. In Questions: Formal, functional and interactional perspectives (pp. 58–80). Cambridge University Press. (link)
Rossano, F. (2012). Gaze behavior in face-to-face interaction [Radboud University Nijmegen Nijmegen]. (link)
2011
Rossano, F., Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (2011). Young children’s understanding of violations of property rights. Cognition, 121(2), 219–227. (link)
2010
Rossano, F. (2010). Questioning and responding in Italian. Journal of Pragmatics, 42(10), 2756–2771. (link)
Stivers, T., & Rossano, F. (2010). A Scalar View of Response Relevance. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 43(1), 49–56. (link)
Stivers, T., & Rossano, F. (2010). Mobilizing Response. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 43(1), 3–31. (link)
2009
Rossano, F., Brown, P., & Levinson, S. C. (2009). Gaze, questioning and culture. Cambridge University Press Cambridge. (link)
Stivers, T., Enfield, N. J., Brown, P., Englert, C., Hayashi, M., Heinemann, T., Hoymann, G., Rossano, F., de Ruiter, J. P., Yoon, K.-E., & Levinson, S. C. (2009). Universals and cultural variation in turn-taking in conversation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(26), 10587–10592. (link)
2008
Bercelli, F., Rossano, F., & Viaro, M. (2008). Different place, different action: Clients’ personal narratives in psychotherapy. Text & Talk, 28(3).
Bercelli, F., Rossano, F., & Viaro, M. (2008). Clients’ responses to therapists’ reinterpretations. In A. Peräkylä, C. Antaki, I. Leudar, & S. Vehviläinen (Eds.), Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy (pp. 43–61). Cambridge University Press. (link)
2007
Rossano, F. (2007). Projecting types of actions and displaying recognition of them through visible behavior. 93rd Annual Convention of the National Communication Association.
2006
Rossano, F. (2006). Gaze behavior in multi-unit turns. 92nd Annual Convention National Communication Association (NCA).
Bercelli, F., Rossano, F., & Viaro, M. (2006). Clients’ responses to therapists’ formulations in cognitive and systemic therapies. ICCA 06. Abstracts. International Conference on Conversation Analysis.
Rossano, F. (2006). When the eyes meet: Using gaze to mobilize response. International Conference on Conversation Analysis.
2005
Rossano, F. (2005). When it’s over is it really over? On the effects of sustained gaze vs. gaze withdrawal at sequence possible completion. International Pragmatic Association, Riva Del Garda, July.
Bercelli, F., Rossano, F., Viaro, M. (2005). Storytellings as patients’ responses to therapists’ elaborations. Abstracts. 9th International Pragmatic Conference. Riva Del Garda, Italy, 10-15 July 2005, 39–39.