Elainie Alenkaer Madsen
PostDoc
Cognitive Science
Department of Philosophy
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Elainie Alenkaer Madsen
I am a comparative psychologist, working on cognition and communication in humans and other animals (primates, dogs and wolves). I completed my doctoral thesis at University of St Andrews in 2010, on attention following and nonverbal referential communication in bonobos, chimpanzees and orangutans, and joined the Centre for Cognitive Semiotics that year. Here I am in involved in studies of children and non-human primates' understanding of communicative signs, and a comparative project of low-level imitative abilities (contagious yawning) in children, chimpanzees, dogs, wolves and big cats. Previously, I have worked on dolphin meta-cognition (by means of running an aquatic adaptation of the Sally-Ann-theory of mind test), kinship recognition in primates, and kinship and altruism in humans.
Research
Articles (2)
- Zlatev, J., Madsen, E., Lenninger, S., Persson, T., Sayehli, S., van de Weijer, J. & Sonesson, G. (in press). Understanding communicative intentions and semiotic vehicles by children and chimpanzees. Cognitive Development.
- Madsen, E. & Persson, T. (2012). Contagious yawning in domestic dog puppies (Canis lupus familiaris): The effect of ontogeny and emotional closeness on low-level imitation in dogs. Animal Cognition. Springer.
Conference papers (4)
- Zlatev, J., Lenninger, S., Madsen, E., Persson, T., Sayehli, S. & Sonesson, G. (2012). Understanding Communicative Signs by Children and Chimpanzees.
- Madsen, E., Zlatev, J., Persson, T., Lenninger, S., Sayehli, S. & Sonesson, G. (2011). A Developmental Increase in Susceptibility to Contagious Yawning in Chimpanzees: An Expression of Empathy?.
- Zlatev, J., Lenninger, S., Sayehli, S., Madsen, E., Sonesson, G. & Persson, T. (2011). Understanding Communicative Signs by Children and Chimpanzees.
- Zlatev, J., Sonesson, G., Persson, T., Lenninger, S., Sayehli, S. & Madsen, E. (2011). Intersubjectivity and Sign Use in Children and Chimpanzees.
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