Publications

FEDERICO ROSSANO

2024

The origin of great ape gestural forms

How do soundboard-trained dogs respond to human button presses? An investigation into word comprehension

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) strategically manipulate their environment to deny conspecifics access to food

Spontaneous playful teasing in four great ape species

As Long as It Catches Mice…

 

2023

Soundboard-using pets?: Introducing a new global citizen science approach to interspecies communication

Use of Augmentative Interspecies Communication devices in animal language studies: A review.

Beyond single‐mindedness: A figure‐ground reversal for the cognitive sciences.

 

2022

Understanding embodied reference with touch-line transformer. 

Remediation of infelicitous epistemic stance.

How 2- and 4-year-old children coordinate social interactions with peers.

Every product needs a process: unpacking joint commitment as a process across species.

When and how do non-human great apes communicate to support cooperation? 

In situ bidirectional human-robot value alignment.

Sharing rewards undermines coordinated hunting.

 

2021

Modular e-collar for animal telemetry: An animal-centered design proposal.

Evidence of joint commitment in great apes’ natural joint actions.
Chimpanzees and bonobos use social leverage in an ultimatum game.

Gibbon strategies in a food competition task. 

Marmoset monkeys overcome dyadic social dilemmas while avoiding mutual defection.

How environmental unpredictability and harshness affect chimpanzees (pan troglodytes) in risk-choice and temporal discounting tasks

 

2020

Epistemic trespassing and disagreement.

How apes get into and out of joint actions.

 Bonobos engage in joint commitment. 

Children, but not great apes, respect ownership. 

Proximate mechanisms and relational history: The interdependence of food transfers in socially housed orang-utans (pongo abelii).

How do gibbons solve social dilemmas?

Gibbons exploit information about what a competitor can see.

The role of entitlement in formatting preferences across requesters and recipients. 

 

2019

The word order of languages predicts native speakers’ working memory. 

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). doi:10.1109/uemcon47517.2019.8992986

Grocke, P., Rossano, F., & Tomasello, M. (2019). Preschoolers consider (absent) others when choosing a distribution procedure. PLOS ONE, 14(8). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0221186

Kanngiesser, P., Rossano, F., Zeidler, H., Haun, D., & Tomasello, M. (2019). Children’s respect for ownership across diverse societies. Developmental Psychology, 55(11), 2286-2298. doi:10.1037/dev0000787

Enfield, N. J., Stiver, T., Brown, P., Englert, C., Harajunpää, K., Hayashi, M., Heinemann, T., Hoymann, G., Keisanen, T., Rauniomaa, M., Raymond, C. W., Rossano, F., Yoon, K. Y., Zwitserlood, I. & Levinson, S. C. (in press). Polar answers. Journal of Linguistics

Rossano, F. (in press).  The structure and timing of human versus primate social interaction. In Hagoort, P. (ed.) Human Language: from Genes and Brains to Behavior. MIT Press

 

2018

Arbib, M. A., Aboitiz, F., Burkart, J., Corballis, M., Coudé, G., Hecht, E., … Rossano, F. ,et al. (2018). The Comparative Neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) Road Map for Research on How the Brain Got Language. Interaction Studies.

Poupko, J., Hearn, L. & Rossano, F. (2018). Drug Contamination of U.S. Paper Currency and Forensic Relevance of Canine Alert to U.S. Paper Currency: A Critical Review of the Scientific Literature. Journal of Forensic Sciences

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

Durkin, C., Rossano, F., & Klemmer, S. (2018). Score-Group Framing Negatively Impacts Peer Evaluation. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2

Voutilainen, L., Rossano, F. & Peräkylä, A. (2018). Conversation analysis and psychotherapeutic change. In González, E., Pekarek Doehler, S., and Wagner, J. (eds.) Longitudinal studies in the organization of social interaction. (pp.225-254) Palgrave Macmillan

Rossano, F. (in press). Social manipulation, turn-taking and cooperation in apes: Implications for the evolution of language-based interaction in humans. Interaction Studies. 151-166

Grocke, P., Rossano, F.,  & Tomasello, M. (2017). Young children are more willing to accept group decisions in which they have had a voice. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 166, 67

 

2017

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

Heesen, R., Genty, E., Rossano, F., Zuberhühler, K., & Bangerter, A. (2017). Social play as joint action: A framework to study the evolution of shared intentionality as an interactional achievement. Learning and Behavior. 1-16

Trott, S. & Rossano, F. (2017). Theoretical Concerns for the Integration of Repair. Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction. AAAI Technical Report FS-17-01

Völter, C.J., Rossano, F., & Call, J. (2016). Social manipulation in nonhuman primates: cognitive and motivational determinants. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

 

2016

Kanngiesser, P., Schmidt, M. F. H. & Rossano, F. (2015). Young children’s understanding of social norms and social institutions. In Kury, H., Redo S. and Shea, E. (eds.) Handbook of Women and Children as Victims and Offenders: Background – Prevention – Reintegration. Suggestions for Succeeding Generations (pp.195-210). Springer International Publishing.

 

2015

Rossano, F., Fiedler, L., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Preschoolers’ understanding of communication and cooperation in the establishment of property rights. Developmental Psychology 51(2), 176-184

*Völter, C. J., *Rossano, F., & Call, J. (2015). From exploitation to cooperation: Social tool-use in orangutan mother-offspring dyads. Animal Behaviour 100, 126-134.
Equal first authorship

Grocke, P., Rossano, F. & Tomasello, M. (2015). Procedural justice in children’s understanding of fairness. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 140, 197 – 210

Kanngiesser, P., Rossano, F. & Tomasello, M. (2015). Late emergence of the first possession ownership heuristic: evidence from a small-scale culture. Child Development 86 (4), 1282-1289

John, M., Rossano, F., Melis P. A., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Scarcity and value attribution in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Folia primatologica, 86(4), 300

 

2014

Rossano, F., Nitzschner, M. & Tomasello, M. (2014) Domestic dogs and puppies can use human voice direction referentially. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London – Series B 281 20133201

Rossano, F., Liebal, K. (2014). “Requests” and “offers” in orangutans and human infants. In Drew, P. and Couper-Kuhlen, E. (eds.) Requesting in Social Interaction (pp. 333-362). John Benjamins.

 

2013

Rossano, F. (2013). Sequence organization and timing of bonobo mother-infant interactions. Interaction Studies, 14 (2), 160-189.

Halina, M., Rossano, F. & Tomasello, M. (2013). The ontogenetic ritualization of bonobo gestures. Animal Cognition, 16 (4), 653-666.

Bercelli, F., Rossano, F., Viaro, M. (2013) Supra-session courses of action in psychotherapy. Journal of Pragmatics, 57, 118-137.

 

2012

Rossano, F., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2012). One-year-old infants follow others’ voice direction. Psychological Science, 23 (11), 1298-1302.

Rossano, F. (2012). Gaze in conversation. In J. Sidnell, & T. Stivers (Eds.), The handbook of conversation analysis (pp. 308-329). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Rossano, F. (2012) Gaze behaviour in face-to-face interaction. Ph.D. dissertation. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Series

Stivers, T., & Rossano, F. (2012). Mobilizing response in interaction: A compositional view of questions. In J. P. De Ruiter (Ed.), Questions: Formal, functional and interactional perspectives (pp. 58-80). New York: Cambridge University Press.

 

2011

Rossano, F., Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (2011). Young children’s understanding of violations of property rights. Cognition, 121, 219-227.

 

2010

Rossano, F. (2010). Questioning and responding in Italian. Journal of Pragmatics, 42, 2756-2771.

Stivers, T., & Rossano, F. (2010). A scalar view of response relevance. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 43, 49-56.

Stivers, T., & Rossano, F. (2010). Mobilizing response. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 43, 3-31.

 

2009

Rossano, F., Brown, P., & Levinson, S. C. (2009). Gaze, questioning and culture. In J. Sidnell (Ed.), Conversation analysis: Comparative perspectives (pp. 187-249). Cambridge University Press.

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. PNAS, 106 (26), 10587-10592.

 

2008

Rossano, F., & Viaro, M. (2008). Clients’ responses to therapists’ reinterpretations. In A. Peräkylä, C. Antaki, S. Vehviläinen, & I. Leudar (Eds.), Conversation analysis and psychotherapy (pp. 43-61). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bercelli, F., Rossano, F., & Viaro, M. (2008). Different place, different action: Clients’ personal narratives in psychotherapy. Text and Talk, 28(3), 283-305.

Viaro, M., Bercelli, F., & Rossano, F. (2008). Una relazione terapeutica: Il terapeuta allenatore. Connessioni: Rivista di consulenza e ricerca sui sistemi umani, 20, 95-105.

2004

Bercelli, F., Viaro, M., & Rossano, F. (2004). Attività in alcuni generi di psicoterapia. Rivista di psicolinguistica applicata, IV (2/3), 111-127.

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