Person
Researcher
- Cognitive Science
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail gabriela-alina.sauciuclucs.luse
Phone +46 46 222 00 00
Mobile +46 70 648 66 86
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
My academic qualifications include a doctoral degree in Philology - Romance Linguistics (University of Bucharest, 2006), and a doctoral degree in Cognitive Semiotics (Århus University, 2012).
My current work as a post-doctoral researcher at Lund University, the sub-department of Cognitive Science, focuses on the development and evolution of social cognitive capacities, as well as advanced cognition.
These topics are addressed in studies with infants and toddlers (data collection is conducted primarily in Stockholm county), as well as studies involving non-human great apes housed at Lund University Primate Research Station Furuvik.
In the past I was employed or collaborated with the University of Bucharest (1999-2008 as a teaching assistant and lecturer), Università degli Studi di Padova (2000-2001 as a visiting researcher), Århus University (2002-2003 as a visiting researcher; 2007-2011 as a PhD fellow), and the Interactive Institute in Stockholm (2012).
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- The development of social-cognitive abilities in a Sumatran orangutan infant (research leader)
- The evolution of musicality: synchronisation behaviours and rhythm perception in chimpanzees (research leader)
- Where does human cooperation come from? The evolutionary origins of the ability to infer shared goals and motivations (research leader)
- Remote eye-tracking with chimpanzees and orang-utans (research leader)
- Infrastructure consolidation for remote eye-tracking with great an lesser apes at Lund University Primate Research Station Furuvik (research leader)
- Music Perception: Investigating musical meter processing with pupillometry (research leader)
- Social bonding as a facilitator of intra- and cross-species imitation
- Can great apes imagine cocktails? (research leader)
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 (8)
- Sauciuc, G.-A., Luna Martinez, A., Wester, A., Hellgren, T. & Persson, T. (2021). Maternal behaviors that mediate skill development in Sumatran orangutans. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43, 1187-1193.
- Sauciuc, G.-A. & Persson, T. (2020). Chimpanzees predict the hedonic outcome of novel taste combinations : The evolutionary origins of affective forecasting. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Sauciuc, G.-A., Zlakowska, J., Persson, T., Lenninger, S. & Madsen, E. (2020). Imitation recognition and its prosocial effects in 6-month old infants. PLoS ONE, 15. Public Library of Science.
- Persson, T., Sauciuc, G.-A. & Madsen, E. (2018). Spontaneous cross-species imitation in interaction between chimpanzees and zoo visitors. Primates, 59, 19-29. Springer.
- 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.
- Sauciuc, G.-A. (2013). The Role of Metaphor in the Structuring of Emotion Concepts. Cognitive Semiotics, Vol. V, 244-267. De Gruyter.
- 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.) Studii de lingvistică și filologie romanică : hommages offerts à Sandra Reinheimer Rîpeanu (pp. 494-517). Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti.
- Sauciuc, G.-A. (2003). Interjectia vai in limba romana vorbita. In Dascalu Jinga, L. & Pop, L. (Eds.) Dialogul în româna vorbită : omagiu profesorului Sorin Stati la a 70-a aniversare (pp. 262-280). Oscar Print, Academia Romana.
Conference contributions (12)
- Sauciuc, G.-A., Zlakowska, J., Klang, K. J., Wester, A., Persson, T. & Madsen, E. A. (2021). Rhythmic behaviors in chimpanzees : Range, functional contexts, sex differences and emotional correlates.
- Sauciuc, G.-A., Klang, K. J., Zlakowska, J. & Persson, T. (2019). Social antecedents of rhythmic behaviours in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Folia Primatologica, 91, 290-291. Karger.
- Sauciuc, G.-A., Zlakowska, J., Klang, K. J. & Persson, T. (2019). Flexibility and context specificity of communicative rhythmic behaviours in chimpanzees.
- Sauciuc, G.-A., Zlakowska, J., Klang, K. J., Bååth, R. & Persson, T. (2019). Social antecedents and consequences of rhythmic behaviours in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
- 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, Proceedings of the 13th SweCog Conference (pp. 21-23), 2017. University of Skövde.
- 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.) Proceedings of the 10th world congress of semiotics (AISS-AIS), A Coruna, 2009 (pp. 829-836). Universidade da Corouna.
- Sauciuc, G.-A. (2012). What makes a best exemplar?. In Hart, C. (Ed.) Selected Papers from UK-CLA Meetings (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.) European Perspectives on Cognitive Science (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)
Researcher
- Cognitive Science
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail gabriela-alina.sauciuclucs.luse
Phone +46 46 222 00 00
Mobile +46 70 648 66 86
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30