Simon W. Townsend
Coventry, ENG, United Kingdom
Last Updated: 09/26/2026
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Found 49 publications
The evolution of infant-directed communication: Comparing vocal input across all great apes.
Journal: Science advances
Published: June 25, 2025
How did vocal communication come to dominate human language? A view from the womb.
Journal: PLoS biology
Published: April 15, 2025
Extensive compositionality in the vocal system of bonobos.
Journal: Science (New York, N.Y.)
Published: April 03, 2025
Chimpanzee mothers, but not fathers, influence offspring vocal-visual communicative behavior.
Journal: PLoS biology
Published: February 25, 2025
Adapting the facial action coding system for chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) to bonobos (Pan paniscus): the ChimpFACS extension for bonobos.
Journal: PeerJ
Published: January 06, 2025
Non-adjacent dependency processing (or lack thereof) in bonobos: an artificial grammar experiment.
Journal: Royal Society open science
Published: December 13, 2024
Conspecific alarm calls, but not food-associated calls, elicit affect-based and object-based mental representations in a bonobo (Pan paniscus).
Journal: Royal Society open science
Published: October 30, 2024
Seeds of language-like generativity in bird call combinations.
Journal: Proceedings. Biological sciences
Published: October 16, 2024
Call combination production is linked to the social environment in Western Australian magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen dorsalis).
Journal: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Published: May 20, 2024
Chimpanzee gestural exchanges share temporal structure with human language.
Journal: Current biology : CB
Published: March 28, 2024
An updated vocal repertoire of wild adult bonobos (Pan paniscus).
Journal: PloS one
Published: March 01, 2024
Last Updated: 09/26/2026