{"id":2593,"date":"2025-07-15T04:34:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T04:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/?page_id=2593"},"modified":"2025-07-18T20:58:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:58:22","slug":"federico-rossano","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/speakers\/federico-rossano\/","title":{"rendered":"Federico Rossano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Instagram-Post-45-CI-25-Designs-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2355 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Instagram-Post-45-CI-25-Designs-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Instagram-Post-45-CI-25-Designs-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Instagram-Post-45-CI-25-Designs-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Instagram-Post-45-CI-25-Designs-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Instagram-Post-45-CI-25-Designs.png 1080w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/1024;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3>The Challenges of Cooperation: A Developmental and Evolutionary Perspective<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<strong>Federico Rossano<br><\/strong>Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, UC San Diego\n\n\n\nFederico 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.&nbsp; He is the scientific lead of the world&#8217;s largest scientific study of button pressing pets.\n\n\n\n<strong>Learn more<\/strong><br>Lab Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/cclab.ucsd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#41649c\" class=\"has-inline-color\">https:\/\/cclab.ucsd.edu\/<\/mark><\/a><br>Interspecies Internet lecture: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RpjFuPWHUHk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#41649c\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Can our pets tell us what they are thinking?<\/mark><\/a><br><br><strong>Read these<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/rstb.2021.0109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#41649c\" class=\"has-inline-color\">When and how do non-human great apes communicate to support cooperation?<\/mark><\/a> By Alicia P. Melis and Federico Rossano, 2022.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.anbehav.2014.11.025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#41649c\" class=\"has-inline-color\">From exploitation to cooperation: social tool use in orangutan mother\u2013offspring dyads<\/mark><\/a> by Christoph J. V\u00f6lter, Federico Rossano, and Josep Call, 2015.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/rstb.2021.0093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#41649c\" class=\"has-inline-color\">The coordination of attention and action in great apes and humans<\/mark><\/a> by Michael Tomasello, 2022.\n\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2137,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2593","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Challenges of Cooperation: A Developmental and Evolutionary Perspective Federico RossanoAssociate 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. 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