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Prof Josep Call

Bishop Wardlaw Professor

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3608

Email

jc276@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

My research focuses on technical and social problem solving in animals with a special emphasis on the great apes.  Some of the topics that I am currently investigating include causal and inferential reasoning, tool-use, long-term memory and planning, gestural communication and mindreading.  Ultimately, my goal is to contribute to elucidate how cognition evolves.

PhD supervision

• Kaustabh Baruah
• Christina Ruiz-Mendoza
• Eric Vasey

Selected publications

• Open access
  Boada, M., Hernández-Lloreda, M. V., Colmenares, F. & Call, J., 3 Feb 2026, In: Scientific Reports. 16, 12 p., 4649.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Baruah, K. M., Call, J. & Seed, A., 24 Oct 2026, In: Animal Cognition. 29, 73.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Lewis, L. S., Kano, F., Stevens, J. M. G., DuBois, J. G., Call, J. & Krupenye, C., 1 Feb 2026, In: Animal Behavior and Cognition. 13, 1, p. 1-21

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Sanchez-Amaro, A., Wijk, S., Molenaar, C., Abuova, A., Mujica-Manrique, L., Leisterer-Peoples, S., Beheim, B., Maurits, L., Albiach-Serrano, A., Allritz, M., Altınok, N., Amici, F., Auersperg, A., Aureli, F., Bandini, E., Barth, J., Benziad, L., Bläsing, B., Bohn, M. & Bourjade, M. & 88 others, Bräuer, J., Broihanne, M.-H., Brosnan, S., Bueno-Guerra, N., Bugnyar, T., Buttelmann, D., Buttelmann, F., Cacchione, T., Carpenter, M., Colmenares, F., Crockford, C., Cronin, K., de las Heras, Á., De Marco, A., DeTroy, S., Deufour, V., Duguid, S., Dunbar, R., Eckert, J., Engelmann, J., Fagot, J., Fischer, J., Forss, S., Funk, M., Gergely, G., Greenberg, J., Großmann, J., Grüneisen, S., Halina, M., Hanus, D., Heilbronner, S., Heintz, C., Hepach, R., Herrmann, E., Hirata, S., Hribar, A., Janzen, G., Kaminski, J., Kanngiesser, P., Kano, F., Kirchhofer, K., Knofe, H., Kopp, K., Krupenye, C., Laumer, I., Levinson, S., Liszkowski, U., Manrique, H., Martin-Ordas, G., McEwen, E., Moore, R., Munar, E., Nadal, M., Nawroth, C., Nolte, S., Pelé, M., Potì, P., Rakoczy, H., Riedel, J., Romain, A., Rossano, F., Russell, Y., Sabbatini, G., Schäfer, M., Scheumann, M., Schmelz, M., Schmid, B., Schmitt, V., Sebastián-Enesco, C., Seed, A., Suda-King, C., Tauzin, T., Tempelmann, S., Tennie, C., Truppa, V., Uher, J., Vaish, A., van Leeuwen, E., Visalberghi, E., Völter, C., Vonau, V., Wascher, C., Wittig, R., Wolf, W., Tomasello, M., Liebal, K., Call, J. & Haun, D., 1 Jun 2026, In: Scientific Data. 13, 805.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Soldati, A., Fedurek, P., Eleuteri, V., Zuberbühler, K., Call, J., Muhumuza, G., Mbotella, M., Adue, S., Boscou, C., Asua, J., Lomoro, D., Muhanguzi, G. & Dezecache, G., 31 Jan 2026, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 293, 2063, 20250997.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Völter, C. J., Felsche, E., Call, J. & Rossano, F., Apr 2026, In: Animal Behaviour. 234, p. 1-13 13 p., 123512.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Radovanović, K., Lorskens, A., Schütte, S., Bräue, J., Call, J., B. M. Haun, D. & J. C. van Leeuwen, E., 16 Apr 2025, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 292, 20242873.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Alessandroni, N., Altschul, D., Baumgartner, H. A., Bazhydai, M., Brosnan, S. F., Byers-Heinlein, K., Call, J., Chittka, L., Elsherif, M., Espinosa, J., Freeman, M. S., Gjoneska, B., Güntürkün, O., Huber, L., Krasheninnikova, A., Mazza, V., Miller, R., Moreau, D., Nawroth, C. & Pronizius, E. & 8 others, Ruiz-Fernández, S., Schwing, R., Šlipogor, V., Visser, I., Vonk, J., Yeager, J., Zettersten, M. & Prétôt, L., 1 Feb 2025, In: Nature Human Behaviour. 9, p. 240–242

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

• Rapport Munro, E., Koopman, S. E., Anderson, S. P., Schweller, K., Röhr, H., Kleiman-Weiner, M., Lewis, R., Klein, B., Allritz, M., Robinson, L. M., Dolins, F. L. & Call, J., 1 Aug 2025, In: Journal of Comparative Psychology. 139, 3, p. 155-177 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Schleihauf, H., Sanford, E., Thompson, B., Zhang, S., Rukundo, J., Call, J., Herrmann, E. & Engelmann, J., 30 Oct 2025, In: Science. 390, 6772, p. 521-526

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review