The Challenges of Cooperation: A Developmental and Evolutionary Perspective
Federico Rossano
Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, UC San Diego
Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, UC San Diego
Federico Rossano is an Associate Professor in the department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego. He received his PhD in Linguistics from the Max Planck institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands) and has worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany). His current research adopts a comparative perspective on social cognition (cross-ages, cross-cultures and cross-species) and focuses on the development of communicative abilities and the structure of social interaction in human and non-human animals. He is the scientific lead of the world's largest scientific study of button pressing pets.
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Lab Website: https://cclab.ucsd.edu/
Interspecies Internet lecture: Can our pets tell us what they are thinking?
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When and how do non-human great apes communicate to support cooperation? By Alicia P. Melis and Federico Rossano, 2022.
From exploitation to cooperation: social tool use in orangutan mother–offspring dyads by Christoph J. Völter, Federico Rossano, and Josep Call, 2015.
The coordination of attention and action in great apes and humans by Michael Tomasello, 2022.
Lab Website: https://cclab.ucsd.edu/
Interspecies Internet lecture: Can our pets tell us what they are thinking?
Read these
When and how do non-human great apes communicate to support cooperation? By Alicia P. Melis and Federico Rossano, 2022.
From exploitation to cooperation: social tool use in orangutan mother–offspring dyads by Christoph J. Völter, Federico Rossano, and Josep Call, 2015.
The coordination of attention and action in great apes and humans by Michael Tomasello, 2022.