Currently, my main area of research is animal cognition, with a focus on predictive cognition, reasoning and imagination, behavioural synchrony, behavioural and emotional contagion, imitation, social learning, temporal aspects of social interaction, vocal communication. I have conducted studies with both human adults and infants, as well as with chimpanzees and orangutans

Articles (5)

• Persson, T., Sauciuc, G.-A. & Madsen, E. (2018). Spontaneous cross-species imitation in interaction between chimpanzees and zoo visitors. Primates, 59, 19-29. Springer.
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• Sauciuc, G.-A., Persson, T., Bååth, R., Bobrowicz, K. & Osvath, M. (2016). Affective forecasting in an orangutan : predicting the hedonic outcome of novel juice mixes. Animal Cognition, 19, 1081-1092. Springer.
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• Sauciuc, G.-A. (2013). The Role of Metaphor in the Structuring of Emotion Concepts. Cognitive Semiotics, Vol. V, 244-267. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
• Sauciuc, G.-A. (2006). Borrowings - A Source of Innovation in the Class of Interjections. Revue Roumaine de Linguistique-Romanian Review of Linguistics, LI, 267-300. Editura Academiei Romane.
• Sauciuc, G.-A. (2004). Interjections as viewed by Latin grammarians. Revue Roumaine de Linguistique-Romanian Review of Linguistics, XLIX, 87-111. Editura Academiei Romane.

Book chapters (2)

• Sauciuc, G.-A. (2007). "Dragoste" and "Iubire" : love in the layperson model of native speakers of Romanian. In Cunita, A., Lupu, C. & Tasmowski, L. (Eds.) (pp. 494-517). Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti.
• Sauciuc, G.-A. (2003). Interjectia vai in limba romana vorbita. In Dascalu Jinga, L. & Pop, L. (Eds.) (pp. 262-280). Oscar Print, Academia Romana.

Conference contributions (8)

• Sauciuc, G.-A., Persson, T. & Madsen, E. (2017). The social side of imitation in human evolution and development : Shared intentionality and imitation games in chimpanzees and 6-month old infants. In Arweström Jansson, A., Axelsson, A., Andreasson, R. & Billing, E. (Eds.) Skövde University Studies in Informatics (pp. 21-23), 2017. University of Skövde.
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• Osvath, M., Sauciuc, G.-A., Balkenius, C. & Persson, T. (2013). Gustatory imagination in an orangutan.
• Sauciuc, G.-A. (2012). CLUSTERING OF AFFECTIVE CATEGORIES IN SCANDINAVIAN AND ROMANCE LANGUAGES. In Couto Cantero, P., Veloso, G. E., Passeri, A. & Paz Gago, J. M. (Eds.) (pp. 829-836). Universidade da Corouna.
• Sauciuc, G.-A. (2012). What makes a best exemplar?. In Hart, C. (Ed.) (pp. 401-418), 1. UK Cognitive Linguistics Association.
• Sauciuc, G.-A. (2011). Categorization in The Affective Domain. In kokinov, B., Karmiloff-Smith, A. & Nersessian, N. (Eds.) (pp. 1-6). New Bulgarian University Press.
• Sauciuc, G.-A. (2010). Making sense of "anomalous" vocalizations.
• Sauciuc, G.-A. (2010). The Metonymic Access of Emotion Concepts.
• Sauciuc, G.-A. (2009). Laymen's "theories" of affect in Scandinavian and Romance languages.

Articles in specialist publications and popular press (2)

• Sauciuc, G.-A. & Persson, T. (2018). Chimpanzees like to copy human visitors to the zoo - Ig Nobel prize. The Conversation.
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• Sauciuc, G.-A., Persson, T. & Osvath, M. (2016). Ape abilities. Pan European networks. Government, 143-145.
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