Person

Gästforskare
- Kognitionsvetenskap
- Filosofiska institutionen
Kontaktinformation
E-post elainie.madsenlucs.luse
Besöksadress
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postadress
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internpost hämtställe 30
I am a comparative psychologist, studying cognition and communication in humans, other primates, dogs, wolves, lions, tigers, pumas and elephants.
Previously, I have worked on dolphin meta-cognition (theory of mind), human kinship and altruism. I completed my doctorate at University of St Andrews in 2011 on nonverbal referential communication in bonobos, chimps and orangutans.
I am currently involved in studies of low-level imitation (e.g. contagious yawning) in children, chimps, canids, elephants and big cats. I also work on a project about social bonding and imitation and its influence on social cognition in humans & chimps, as well as a project on the evolution of musicality, which examines synchronisation and rhythm perception in chimps.
I collaborate with a number of sites, e.g. Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Wolf Park, Exotic Feline Rescue Center, Adventures with Elephants, Knysna Elephant Park
For more, incl papers: Elainie.dk
Forskning
Min profil i Lunds universitets forskningsportal
- Music Perception: Investigating musical meter processing with pupillometry (forskningsledare)
- Centrum för Kognitiv Semiotik (RJ)
- Fylogenetisk rekonstruktion av den mänskliga föreställningsförmågan
- Intersubjektivitet och imitation som föregångare till teckenanvändning
- Kameleonteffekten som katalysator för imitation inom och mellan djurarter (forskningsledare)
- Musikalitetens evolution: synkronisering av beteenden och uppfattning av rytm hos schimpanser (forskningsledare)
Böcker (1 st)
Redaktörskap (1 st)
Artiklar (7 st)
- Sauciuc, G.-A., Persson, T. & Madsen, E. (2022). The Natural History of Musical Rhythm : Functional and Mechanistic Theories on the Evolution of Human Rhythm Cognition and the Relevance of Rhythmic Animal Behaviors. Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews, 17, 33-87. Comparative Cognition Society.
- 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 (PLoS).
- Persson, T., Sauciuc, G.-A. & Madsen, E. (2018). Spontaneous cross-species imitation in interaction between chimpanzees and zoo visitors. Primates, 59, 19-29. Springer.
- Madsen, E. & Persson, T. (2013). Contagious yawning in domestic dog puppies (Canis lupus familiaris): The effect of ontogeny and emotional closeness on low-level imitation in dogs. Animal Cognition, 16, 233-240. Springer.
- Madsen, E., Persson, T., Sayehli, S., Lenninger, S. & Sonesson, G. (2013). Chimpanzees show a developmental increase in susceptibility to contagious yawning: A test of the effect of ontogeny and emotional closeness on yawn contagion. PLoS ONE, 8. Public Library of Science (PLoS).
- Zlatev, J., Madsen, E., Lenninger, S., Persson, T., Sayehli, S., van de Weijer, J. & Sonesson, G. (2013). Understanding communicative intentions and semiotic vehicles by children and chimpanzees. Cognitive Development, 28, 312-329. Elsevier.
- Madsen, E., Tunney, R. J., Fieldman, G., Plotkin, H. C., Dunbar, R. I. M., Richardson, J.-M. & McFarland, D. (2007). Kinship and altruism: A cross-cultural experimental study. British Journal of Psychology, 98, 339-359. Wiley-Blackwell.
Konferensbidrag (6 st)
- 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., 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. I Arweström Jansson, A., Axelsson, A., Andreasson, R. & Billing, E. (Red.) Skövde University Studies in Informatics, Proceedings of the 13th SweCog Conference (pp. 21-23), 2017. University of Skövde.
- 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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Gästforskare
- Kognitionsvetenskap
- Filosofiska institutionen
Kontaktinformation
E-post elainie.madsenlucs.luse
Besöksadress
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postadress
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internpost hämtställe 30