MEGUERDITCHIAN Adrien

  Axes de recherche dans une approche comparative entre primates :

• Préférences manuelles (manipulation versus communication gestuelle) et latéralisation hémisphérique cérébrale (Imagerie cérébrale IRM, fNIRS)
• Communication gestuelle et vocale & Cognition sociale : propriétés intentionnelles, référentielles et compréhension de signaux
• Structure et coordination des unités comportementales (gestes, postures, regard et vocalisations) dans les interactions sociales

Je m’intéresse aux propriétés des modes de communication de nos cousins les primates, et des signaux gestuels en particulier, et leurs liens avec certaines propriétés du langage humain. Je m’interroge notamment sur les implications du geste dans l’évolution du langage, de sa spécialisation hémisphérique cérébrale et de la prédominance des droitiers.

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  Lines of research within a comparative approach between primates :

• Manual preferences (manipulation versus gestural communication) and cerebral hemispheric specialization (Brain Imaging MRI, fNIRS)
• Gestural & Vocal communication and Social Cognition: Intentional and referential properties, signaling understanding
• Structure and coordination of behavioral units (gestures, postures, gaze, vocalizations) within social interaction

I'm interested in properties of communicative systems, including gestural communication, in our primates cousins and their links with some properties of human language. I investigate the potential implications of gesture in evolution of language, of its hemispheric brain specialization and of right-handedness predominance.

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Sites d’étude / Field sites

• Station de Primatologie CNRS UAR846, France : Babouin olive (Papio anubis), Singe écureuil (Saimiri sciureus)
• Centre IRM (Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, Marseille)
• Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta, Etats-Unis : Chimpanzé en captivité (Pan troglodytes)
• Fongoli, Site d’étude de Pr. Jill Pruetz, Sénégal : Chimpanzé en milieu naturel (Pan troglodytes)
• Atlanta Zoo, Etats-Unis : Gorille (Gorilla gorilla)

NEWS 2024 !

DERNIERS ARTICLES EN FRANCAIS

• Becker, Y., & Meguerditchian, A. (2023). Et si la clé des origines du langage se trouvait dans le cerveau des singes ? The Conversation, 199824. [Accès en ligne]

• Meguerditchian, A. (2023). Aux frontières du langage dans la gestuelle des primates : De l’éthologie aux neurosciences comparatives. Revue Semestrielle de droit animalier, 2-2022, 269-284 [PDF]

LAST ARTICLES IN ENGLISH !

• Becker, Y., Phelipon, R., Marie, D., Bouziane, S., Marchetti, R., Sein, J., Velly, L., Renaud, L., Cermolacce, A., Anton, J.-L., Nazarian, B., Coulon, O., & Meguerditchian, A. (2024). Planum Temporale asymmetry in newborn monkeys predicts the future development of gestural communication's handedness. Nature Communications, 15, 4791 [PDF Online access]

• Hopkins, W. D., & Meguerditchian, A. (in press). Handedness and Brain Asymmetries in Nonhuman Primates. In P. Corballis & C. Papagno (Eds.), Cerebral Asymmetries. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

• Margiotoudi, K., Fagot, J., Meguerditchian, A., & Dautriche, I. (2024). Humans (Homo sapiens) but not baboons (Papio papio) demonstrate crossmodal pitch‐luminance correspondence. American Journal of Primatology, e23613. [doi] [Res.Gate] [PDF] 

• Amiez, C., Verstraete, C., Sallet, J., Hadj-Bouziane, F., Ben Hamed, S., Meguerditchian, A., Procyk, E., Wilson, C. R. E, Petrides, M., Sherwood, C. C., & Hopkins, W. D., (2023). The unique anatomy of the prefrontal operculum in the human brain and its relevance to the emergence of speech. Communications Biology, 6, 693. [PDF Online access]

• Amiez, C., Sallet, J., Giacometti, C., Verstraete, C., Gandaux, C., Morel-Latour, V., Meguerditchian, A., Hadj-Bouziane, F., Ben Hamed, S., Hopkins, W. D., Procyk, E., Wilson, C. R. E, & Petrides, M. (2023). A novel perspective on the evolution of the lateral frontal cortex in primates. Science Advances, 9, eadf9445. [PDF Online access]

• ​​​​​Mulholland, M. M., Meguerditchian, A., & Hopkins, W. D. (2023). Age- and sex-related differences in baboon (Papio anubis) gray matter covariation. Neurobiology of Aging, 125, 41-48. [doi] [Res.Gate] [PDF preprint]

• Hopkins, W. D., Coulon, O., Meguerditchian, A., Staes, N., Sherwood, C. C., Schapiro, S. J., Mangin, J.-F., & Bradley, B. (2023). Genetic determinants of individual variation in the superior temporal sulcus of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Cerebral Cortex, 33, 1925–1940. [doi] [Res.Gate] [PDF]

NOUVELLES VIDEOS

CONFERENCES (KEYNOTES) 2024

• Mercredi 10 juillet 2024 à Toulouse, Séminaire labo, au CerCo (Univ Paul Sabatier)
• 26 au 29 juin 2024 à Marseille, IWOLP International workshop on Language Production, au Pharo
• Jeudi 20 juin 2024 à Marseille, Journées "Bébé & Environnements", à l'Hôpital St-Marguerite
• Jeudi 6 juin 2024 à Paris, Workshop Développpement "Jacqueline Fagard's Day", à l'Université Paris Nanterre
• Jeudi 30 mai 2024 à Serignan, 33e Rencontres Nationales de Périnatalité et de Parentalité
• Mercredi 15 mai 2024 à Autrans, 13th International Seminar on Speech Production
• Vendredi 12 avril 2024 à Arras, Séminaire "Intelligence animale" à Université de l'Artois
• Jeudi 21 mars 2024 à Paris, 18e Rencontres de Neurologie Comportementale et des Consultations de Mémoire, à l’ICM
• Vendredi 19 janvier 2024 à Aix-en-Pr, Séminaire de l’Ecole Doctorale ED356
• Vendredi 11 janvier 2024 à Bordeaux, Workshop Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Bordeaux "Créativité, Imaginaire, Imagination"
• Lundi 8 janvier 2024 à Champery (Suisse), au 18th “Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting” ABIM

EVENEMENTS 2024

• Du 15 au 18 octobre à Toulouse, 36e colloque de la Société Francophone de Primatologie
• Mardi 7 avril à Marseille, Cérémonie du Prix des Thèses Univ Aix-Marseille à Yannick BECKER à 17h au Pharo.
• Samedi 16 mars à Rousset, journée "Portes Ouvertes" de la Station de Primatologie CNRS
• Jeudi 15 fev à Marseille, Séminaire Andrea RAVIGNANI (Roma Univ, Italie), 14h Campus Univ Saint-Charles, Espace Pouillon

DANS LA PRESSE...

• 2024 juin, Science & Avenir : "Les babouins communiquent majoritairement avec leur main droite et on sait pourquoi"
• 2024 juin, ScienceDaily, EurekAlerte!, Neuroscience News, etc. : "Baby baboon brain anatomy predicts which hand they will use to communicate"
• 2024 juin, CNRS presse : "L’anatomie du cerveau de bébés babouins permet de prédire avec quelle main ils vont communiquer"
• 2024 juin, Mediapart : "Pour le cerveau, l’habit fait le moine"
• 2024 mars, SciWorthy : "How did humans learn to speak?"
• 2024 fev., Le Figaro : "Grands singes : retour aux origines évolutives de l’humour"
• 2024 jan., La Razon : "Escribir a mano: lo que la pantalla le oculta al cerebro"

CURRENT TEAM MEMBERS

POST-DOC

Katherine BRYANT (ERC & ILCB postdoc in co-direction with Olivier COULON) She got the ILCB postdoc followship in our team to keep developing her research on comparative organization of language-homolog structural connectivity across primates! As an evolutionary neuroscientist, she's a brilliant worldwide expert of brain white matter organization and brain evolution in primates. After a PhD in Neuroscience at the Yerkes Primates Research Center (Emory University) in Atlanta, she worked at Oxford University and published the first comprehensive white matter atlas of the chimpanzee. She then joined our team after being hired with the ERC Gestimage to come work with us on language hemipsheric specialization of the brain and gesture production within a comparative approach.
 

PhD STUDENT        

Siham BOUZIANE (PhD in co-direction with Jenny COULL). We are so happy and proud that Siham got the PhD student's fellowship at the doctoral school ED 356 at Aix-Marseille Univ ! She will develop her original project on "ontogeny and phylogeny on rhythm temporal predictions in human babies and baboons". After a master degree in Neurosciences in Toulouse and an research intership in our team, she became central to the Gestimage Project as a research assistant and was an fantastic lab manager of the ERC project by coordinating all its related behavioral and MRI works in our developing baboons !

PUBLICATIONS EN FRANçAIS

THÈSE

Meguerditchian, A. (octobre, 2009). Latéralité et communication gestuelle chez le babouin et le chimpanzé : à la recherche des précurseurs du langage. Thèse de doctorat de l’Université de Provence (mention Psychologie) sous la direction de Jacques VAUCLAIR. Aix-en-Provence, France. [PDF]

ARTICLES/CHAPITRES DE VULGARISATION

[81]  Becker, Y., & Meguerditchian, A. (2023). Et si la clé des origines du langage se trouvait dans le cerveau des singes ? The Conversation, 199824. [Accès en ligne]

[80] Meguerditchian, A. (février 2022). La communication de nos cousins les primates, quelles similitudes avec le langage?  In J.-F. Marmion (Ed.), Psychologie des animaux (pp. 177-189). Auxerre: Editions Sciences Humaines.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

[79]  Meguerditchian, A. (juin 2019). Au commencement était... le Geste. La Recherche - Les Essentielles "Le Génie de l'animal" 30, 23-27. [PDF]                                                                                                                                                      

[78]  Meguerditchian, A. (nov. 2018). Communication, du primate à l'humain. Le Cercle Psy - Hors-Serie "La Psychologie des Animaux", 7, 54-57. [PDF]                                                                                                            

[77]  Meguerditchian, A. (juil. 2018). Les origines gestuelles du langage. La Recherche, 537, 74-78. [PDF]                                                                                                                                                      

[76]  Meguerditchian, A. (2014). Des singes ingénieux. In O. Néron de Surgy & S. Tirard (Eds.), Les sciences des sixties (pp. 37-39). Paris : Éditions Belin. [PDF]                              

[75]  Primat, N., & Meguerditchian, A. (2010). Le Chakra du babouin. In M. Borillo (Ed.), Dans l’atelier de l’art : Expériences Cognitives (pp. 221-242). Seyssel : Editions Champ Vallon.

[74]  Meguerditchian, A., & Vauclair, J. (2006). Aux origines du langage. Cerveau & Psycho, 17, 84-87. [PDF]                                                                                                                                                                                                               

DIRECTION NUMERO SPECIAL

[73]   Meguerditchian, A. (Ed.) (2013). Dossier: Communication des primates : à la recherche des origines du langage. Revue Primatologie, 5. [Accès libre]

ARTICLES/CHAPITRES DE SYNTHESE DANS DES REVUES/OUVRAGES A COMITE DE LECTURE

[72]  Meguerditchian, A. (2023). Aux frontières du langage dans la gestuelle des primates : De l’éthologie aux neurosciences comparatives. Revue Semestrielle de droit animalier, 2-2022, 269-284 [PDF]                                                                                                    

[71]  Mondada, L., & Meguerditchian, A. (2022). Ouvertures et salutations entre babouins : organisation de la séquence et orientation incarnée vers l’autre. Langage et Société, 176, 127-160. [doi] [Res.Gate] [PDF]                                                                       

[70]   Meguerditchian, A. (2019). L’origine gestuelle du langage : l’apport des recherches en primatologie. In C. Courtet, M. Besson, F. Lavocat, & A. Viala (Eds.), Le Jeu et la Règle: Rencontres Recherche et Création du Festival d'Avignon (pp. 13-25). Paris : CNRS éditions. [PDF]

[69]   Meguerditchian, A. (2014). Pour une large approche comparative entre primates dans les recherches sur les origines de l’homme : l’exemple de la latéralité manuelle. Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d’anthropologie de Paris, 26, 166-171. [PDF]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

[68]   Meguerditchian, A. (2013). Introduction - Dossier:  Communication des primates humains et non humains : à la recherche des origines du langage. Revue Primatologie, 5. [PDF]

[67]   Meguerditchian, A., Cochet, H., Wallez, C. & Vauclair, J. (2013). Communication, latéralité et cerveau chez les primates humains et non humains : vers une origine gestuelle ou multimodale du langage ? Revue Primatologie, 5. [PDF]

PUBLICATIONS in ENGLISH

ORIGINAL RESEACH

2024 / in press

• [66] Becker, Y., Phelipon, R., Marie, D., Bouziane, S., Marchetti, R., Sein, J., Velly, L., Renaud, L., Cermolacce, A., Anton, J.-L., Nazarian, B., Coulon, O., & Meguerditchian, A. (2024). Planum Temporale asymmetry in newborn monkeys predicts the future development of gestural communication's handedness. Nature Communications, 15, 4791 [PDF Online access]

• [65] Margiotoudi, K., Fagot, J., Meguerditchian, A., & Dautriche, I. (2024). Humans (Homo sapiens) but not baboons (Papio papio) demonstrate crossmodal pitch‐luminance correspondence. American Journal of Primatology, e23613. [doi] [Res.Gate] [PDF]

2023

• [64] Amiez, C., Verstraete, C., Sallet, J., Hadj-Bouziane, F., Ben Hamed, S., Meguerditchian, A., Procyk, E., Wilson, C. R. E, Petrides, M., Sherwood, C. C., & Hopkins, W. D., (2023). The unique anatomy of the prefrontal operculum in the human brain and its relevance to the emergence of speech. Communications Biology, 6, 693. [PDF Online access]

• [63] Amiez, C., Sallet, J., Giacometti, C., Verstraete, C., Gandaux, C., Morel-Latour, V., Meguerditchian, A., Hadj-Bouziane, F., Ben Hamed, S., Hopkins, W. D., Procyk, E., Wilson, C. R. E, & Petrides, M. (2023). A novel perspective on the evolution of the lateral frontal cortex in primates. Science Advances, 9, eadf9445. [PDF Online access]

• [62]  Hopkins, W. D., Coulon, O., Meguerditchian, A., Staes, N., Sherwood, C. C., Schapiro, S. J., Mangin, J.-F., & Bradley, B. (2023). Genetic determinants of individual variation in the superior temporal sulcus of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Cerebral Cortex, 33, 1925–1940. [doi] [Res.Gate] [PDF]

• ​​​​​[61]  Mulholland, M. M., Meguerditchian, A., & Hopkins, W. D. (2023). Age- and sex-related differences in baboon (Papio anubis) gray matter covariation. Neurobiology of Aging, 125, 41-48. [doi] [Res.Gate] [PDF preprint]

2022

• [60]  Debracque, C., Gruber, T., Lacoste, R., Meguerditchian, A., & Grandjean, D. (2022). Cerebral Activity in Female Baboons (Papio anubis) During the Perception of Conspecific and Heterospecific Agonistic Vocalizations: a Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Study. Affective Science, 3, 783–791. [doi] [Res.Gate] [PDF]

• [59]  Mondada, L., & Meguerditchian, A. (2022). Sequence organization and embodied mutual orientations: openings of social interactions between baboons. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377, 20210101. [doi] [PDF]

• [58]  Becker, Y., Sein, J., Velly, L., Renaud, L., Lacoste, & Meguerditchian, A. (2022). Planum Temporale grey matter volume asymmetries in new-born monkeys (Papio anubis). Brain Structure and Function. 227, 463–468  [doi]  [PDF preprint]

• [57]  Becker, Y., Claidière, N., Margiotoudi, K., Marie, D., Roth, M., Nazarian, B., Lacoste, R., Anton, J.-L., Coulon, O., & Meguerditchian, A. (2022). Broca's cerebral asymmetry reflects gestural communication's lateralisation in monkeys (Papio anubis), eLife, 11, e70521. [PDF]

• [56]  Boulinguez-Ambroise, G., Pouydebat, E., Disarbois, E., & Meguerditchian, A. (2022). Maternal cradling bias in baboons: The first environmental factor affecting early infant handedness development? Developmental Science, 25, e13179. [PDF preprint]

2021

• [55]  Westerhausen, R., & Meguerditchian, A. (2021). Corpus callosum morphology across the lifespan in baboons (Papio anubis): a cross-sectional study of relative mid-sagittal surface area and thickness. Neuroscience Research [PDF] [Free Access]

• [54]   Boulinguez-Ambroise, G., Herrel, A., Berillon, G., Cornette, R., Young, J. W., Meguerditchian, A., & Pouydebat, E. (2021). Increased performance in juvenile baboons is consistent with ontogenetic changes in morphology. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 175, 546-558. [DOI]

• [53]   Debracque, C., Gruber, T., Lacoste, R., Grandjean, D., & Meguerditchian, A. (2021). Validating the use of functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy in monkeys: The case of brain activation lateralization in Papio Anubis. Behavioural Brain research, 403, 113133. [PDF] [Free Acess]

• [52]   Becker, Y., Sein, J., Velly, L., Giacomino, L., Renaud, L., Lacoste, R., Anton, J.-L., Nazarian, B., Berne, C., & Meguerditchian, A. (2021). Early Left-Planum Temporale Asymmetry in Newborn Monkeys (Papio anubis): A Longitudinal Structural MRI Study at Two Stages of Development. NeuroImage, 227, 117575. [PDF] [Free Access]

• [51]   Meguerditchian, A., Marie, D., Margiotoudi, K., Roth, M., Nazarian, B., Anton, J.-L., & Claidière, N. (2021). Baboons (Papio anubis) living in larger social groups have bigger brains. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42(1), 30-34. [PDF]

2020

• [50]   Boulinguez-Ambroise, G., Pouydebat, E., Disarbois, E., & Meguerditchian, A. (2020). Human-like maternal left-cradling bias in monkeys is altered by social pressure. Scientific Reports, 10, 11036. [PDF][Free Access]

• [49]   Molesti, S., Meguerditchian, A., & Bourjade, M. (2020). Gestural communication in olive baboons (Papio anubis): repertoire and intentionality. Animal Cognition, 23, 19–40. [PDF]

• [48]   Pope, S. M., Fagot, J., Meguerditchian, A., Watzek, J., Lew-Levy, S., Autrey, M. M., & Hopkins, W. D. (2020). Optional-Switch Cognitive Flexibility in Primates: Chimpanzees’ (Pan troglodytes) Intermediate Susceptibility to Cognitive Set. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 134(1), 98-109. [PDF]

2019

• [47]   Amiez, C., Sallet, J., Hopkins, W. D., Meguerditchian, A., Hadj-Bouziane, F., BenHamed, S., Wilson, C. R. E., Procyk, E., & Petrides, M. (2019). Sulcal organization in the medial frontal cortex provides insights into primate brain evolution. Nature Communication, 10, 3437. [PDF]

• [46]   Margiotoudi, K., Marie, D., Claidière, N., Coulon, O., Roth, M., Nazarian, B., Lacoste, R., Hopkins, W. D., Molesti, S., Fresnais, P., Anton, J.-L. & Meguerditchian, A. (2019). Handedness in monkeys reflects hemispheric specialization within the central sulcus. An in vivo MRI study in right- versus left-handed baboons (Papio anubis). Cortex, 118, 203-211. [PDF]

• [45]   Bourjade, M., Gaunet, F., Maugard, A., & Meguerditchian, A. (2019). Manipulating social cues in baboon gesture learning: what does it tell us about the evolution of communication? Animal Cognition,  22(1), 113–125. [PDF]

• [44]   Pope, S. M., Fagot, J., Meguerditchian, A., Washburn, D. A., & Hopkins, W. D. (2019). Enhanced cognitive flexibility in the semi-nomadic Himba. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 50(1), 47-62. [PDF]

2018

• [43]   Marie, D., Roth, M., Lacoste, R., Nazarian, B., Bertello, A., Anton, J.-L., Hopkins, W. D., Margioutoudi, K., Love A. S., & Meguerditchian, A. (2018). Left Brain Asymmetry of the Planum Temporale in a non-Hominid primate: Redefining the origin of brain specialization for language. Cerebral Cortex, 28, 1808-1815. [PDF]

2017

• [42]   Hopkins, W. D., Coulon, O., Meguerditchian, A., Autrey, M., Davidek, K., Mahovetz, L., Pope, S. M., Latash, E. M., Mareno, M. C., & Schapiro, S. J. (2017). Genetic Factors and Oro-Facial Motor Learning Selectively Influence Variability in Central Sulcus Morphology in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Neuroscience, 37, 5475–5483. [PDF]

• [41]   Berthommier, F., Boë L.-J., Meguerditchian, A., Sawallis, T., & Captier, G. (2017). The Baboon Vocal Tract in Light of Exaptation: Larynx, Hyoid, and Tongue Anatomy. In L.-J. Boë, J. Fagot, P. Perrier, & J.-L. Schwartz (Eds., in press). Origins of Human Language: continuities and splits with nonhuman primates (pp.101-135). Oxford : Peter Lang. [PDF]

• [40]   Hopkins, W. D., Meguerditchian, A., Coulon, O., Misiura, M., Pope, S., Mareno, M. C., & Schapiro, S. J. (2017). Motor Skill for Tool-Use is Associated with Left Hemisphere Asymmetries in the Motor Hand Area of the Precentral Gyrus. Behavioural Brain Research, 318, 71-81. [PDF]

2016

• [39]   Molesti, S., Vauclair, J., & Meguerditchian, A. (2016). Hand preferences for unimanual and bimanual coordinated actions in olive baboons (Papio anubis) : consistency over time and across populations. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 130, 341-350. [PDF]

• [38]   Parron, C., & Meguerditchian, A. (2016). Gaze following in baboons (Papio anubis) : Juveniles adjust their gaze and body position to human’s head redirections. American Journal of Primatology, 78, 1265–1271. [PDF]

• [37]   Love, S., Marie, D., Roth, M., Lacoste, R., Nazarian, B., Bertello, A., Coulon, O., Anton, J.-L., & Meguerditchian, A. (2016). The average baboon brain : MRI templates and tissue probability maps from 89 individuals. NeuroImage, 132, 526-533. [Res.Gate]  [PDF]

2015

• [36]   Meguerditchian, A., Phillips, K., Chapelain, A., Stoinski, T., Bania, A., Lonsdorf, E. V., Schaeffer, J., Russell, J., & Hopkins, W. D. (2015). Handedness for Unimanual Grasping in 564 Great Apes : The Effect on Grip Morphology and a Comparison with Hand Use for a Bimanual Coordinated Task. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1794. [Free Access]  [PDF]

• [35]   Pope, S. M., Meguerditchian, A., Hopkins, W. D., & Fagot, J. (2015). Baboons (Papio papio), but not humans, break cognitive set in a visuomotor task. Animal Cognition, 18, 1339–1346. [PDF]

• [34]   Bourjade, M., Canteloup, C., Meguerditchian, A., Vauclair, J., & Gaunet, F. (2015). Training experience in gestures affects the display of social gaze in baboons’ communication with a human. Animal Cognition, 18, 239-250. [PDF]

• [33]   Hopkins, W. D., Schaeffer, J., Russell, J. L., Bogart, S. L., Meguerditchian, A., & Coulon, O. (2015). A Comparative Assessment of Handedness and its Potential Neuroanatomical Correlates in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and Bonobos (Pan paniscus). Behaviour, 152, 461 - 492. [PDF]

2014

• [32]   Hopkins, W. D., Meguerditchian, A., Coulon, O., Bogart, S., Mangin, J., Sherwood, C. C., Bennett, A. J., Pierre, P. J., Fears, S., Woods, R., Hof, P. R., & Vauclair, J. (2014). Evolution of the central sulcus shape and morphology in primates. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 84, 19-30. [PDF]

• [31]   Bourjade, M., Meguerditchian, A., Maille, A., Gaunet, F., & Vauclair, J. (2014). Olive baboons (Papio anubis) adjust their visual and auditory intentional gestures to the visual attention of others. Animal Behaviour, 87, 121-128. [PDF]

2013

• [30]   Potier, C., Meguerditchian, A., & Fagard, J. (2013). Handedness for bimanual coordinated actions in infants as a function of grip morphology. Laterality, 18, 576—593. [PDF]

2012

• [29]   Hopkins, W. D., Pika, S., Liebal, K., Bania, A., Meguerditchian, A., Gardner, M., & Schapiro, S. J. (2012). Handedness for manual gestures in great apes : A meta-analysis. In S. Pika, & K. Liebal (Eds.), Developments in Primate Gesture Research (pp. 93-112). Amsterdam : John Benjamins.

• [28]   Bogart, S. L., Pruetz, J. D., Ormiston, L. K., Russell, J. L., Meguerditchian, A., & Hopkins, W. D., (2012). Termite fishing laterality in the Fongoli savanna chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) : Further evidence of a left hand preference. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 149, 591–598. [PDF]

• [27]   Meguerditchian, A., Gardner, M. J., Schapiro, S. J., Hopkins, W. D. (2012). The sound of one hand clapping : handedness and perisylvian neural correlates of a communicative gesture in chimpanzees. Proceeding of the Royal Society Biology, 279, 1959-1966. [PDF]

                   ⇒ Mention "Exceptional" from "Faculty of 1000 Biology", the data base of post publication peer review of top articles

• [26]   Wallez, C., Schaeffer, J., Meguerditchian, A., Vauclair, J., Schapiro, S. J., & Hopkins, W. D. (2012). Contrast of hemispheric lateralization for oro-facial movements between learned attention-getting sounds and species-typical vocalizations in chimpanzees : extension in a second colony. Brain and Language, 123, 75–79. [PDF]

• [25]   Meguerditchian, A., Donnot, J., Molesti, S., Francioly, R., & Vauclair, J. (2012). Sex difference in squirrel monkeys handedness for unimanual and bimanual coordinated tasks. Animal Behaviour, 83, 635-643. [PDF]

2005-2011

• [24]   Meguerditchian, A., Molesti, S., & Vauclair, J. (2011). Right-handedness predominance in 162 baboons for gestural communication : Consistency across time and groups. Behavioral Neuroscience, 125, 653-660. [PDF]

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• [23]   Meguerditchian, A., Vauclair, J., & Hopkins, W. D. (2010). Captive chimpanzees use their right hand to communicate with each other : Implications for the origins of hemispheric specialization for language. Cortex, 46, 40-48. [PDF]

• [22]   Meguerditchian, A., Calcutt, S. E., Lonsdorf, E. V., Ross, S. R., & Hopkins, W. D. (2010). Captive gorillas are right-handed for bimanual feeding. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 141, 638-645. [PDF]

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• [21]   Meguerditchian, A., & Vauclair, J. (2009). Contrast of hand preferences between communicative gestures and non communicative actions in baboons : implications for the origins of hemispheric specialization for language. Brain and Language, 108, 167–174. [PDF]

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• [20]   Losin, E., Russell, J. L., Freeman, H., Meguerditchian, A., & Hopkins, W. D. (2008). Left hemisphere specialization for oro-facial movements of learned vocal signals by captive chimpanzees. PlosOne, 3(6), e2529. [PDF]

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• [19]   Hopkins, W. D., Taglialatela, J. P., Meguerditchian, A., Nir, T., Schenker, N. M., & Sherwood, C. C. (2008). Gray matter asymmetries in chimpanzees as revealed by voxel-based morphology. Neuroimage, 42, 491-497. [PDF]

• [18]   Meguerditchian, A., & Vauclair, J. (2006). Baboons communicate with their right hand. Behavioral Brain Research, 171, 170-174. [Res. Gate]  [PDF]

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• [17]   Vauclair, J., Meguerditchian, A., & Hopkins, W. D. (2005). Hand preferences for unimanual and coordinated bimanual tasks in baboons (Papio anubis). Cognitive Brain Research, 25, 210-216. [PDF]

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REVIEWS, THEORY PAPERS

2024 / in press

• [16] Hopkins, W. D., & Meguerditchian, A. (2024 in press). Handedness and Brain Asymmetries in Nonhuman Primates. In P. Corballis & C. Papagno (Eds.), Cerebral Asymmetries. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

2022

• [15]   Becker, Y., Loh, K. K., Coulon, O., & Meguerditchian, A. (2022). Arcuate Fasciculus’ middle and ventral temporal connections undercut by tract-tracing evidence. Brain, 145, e66–e68. [doi] [Res.Gate] [PDF]

• [14]   Becker, Y., Loh, K. K., Coulon, O., & Meguerditchian, A. (2022). The Arcuate Fasciculus and language origins: Disentangling existing conceptions that influence evolutionary accounts. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral reviews, 134, 104490 [PDF preprint]

• [13]   Becker, Y., & Meguerditchian, A. (2022). Structural brain asymmetries for language: a comparative approach across primates. Symmetry, 14(5), 876. [PDF Res.Gate]

• [12]   Meguerditchian, A. (2022). On the gestural origins of language : What baboons' gestures and brain have told us after 15 years of research. Ethology, Ecology & Evolution, 34(3), 288-302 [PDF preprint]

2021

• [11]   Song, X., Garcia, P., Kindred, N., Wang, Y., Merchant, H., Meguerditchian, A., Yang, Y., Stein, E. A., Charles, B. W., Ben Hamed, S., Jedema, H. P., & Poirier, C. (2021). Strengths and challenges of longitudinal primate neuroimaging. NeuroImage, 236, 118009. [PDF] [Free Access]

• [10]   Poirier, C., Ben Hamed, S., Garcia-Saldivar, P., Kwok, S. C., Meguerditchian, A., Merchant, H., Rogers, J., Sara Wells, S., & Fox, A. S. (2021). Beyond MRI: on the scientific value of combining non-human primate neuroimaging with metadata. NeuroImage, 228, 117679. [PDF] [Free Access]

2020

• [9]   Milham, M., Petkov, C. I., Margulies, D. S., (...), Meguerditchian, A., (…), & Zarco, W. (2020). Accelerating the Evolution of Nonhuman Primate Neuroimaging. Neuron, 105(4), 600-603. [PDF]

2019

• [8]   Fagot, J., Boë, L.-J., Berthomier, F., Claidière, N, Malassis, R., Meguerditchian, A., Rey, A,  & Montant, M. (2019). The baboon: a model for the study of language evolution. Journal of Human Evolution, 126, 39-50. [PDF]

2007-2014

• [7]   Meguerditchian, A., & Vauclair, J. (2014). Communicative signaling, lateralization and brain substrate in nonhuman primates : Toward a gestural or a multimodal origin of language ? Humana Mente - Journal of Philosophical Studies, 27, 135-160. [PDF]

• [6]   Meguerditchian, A., Taglialatela, J. P., Leavens, D. A., & Hopkins, W. D. (2014). Commentary on Ackermann et al. : Why vocal production of atypical sounds in apes and its cerebral correlates have a lot to say about the origin of language? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37, 565-566. [PDF]

• [5]   Meguerditchian, A., Vauclair, J., & Hopkins, W. D. (2013). On the origins of human handedness and language : A comparative review of hand preferences for bimanual coordinated actions and gestural communication in nonhuman primates. Developmental Psychobiology, 55, 637–650. [PDF]

• [4]   Meguerditchian, A., Cochet, H., & Vauclair, J. (2011). From gesture to language : ontogenetic and phylogenetic perspectives on gestural communication and its cerebral lateralization. In A. Vilain, J.L. Schwartz, C. Abry, & J. Vauclair (Eds.), Primate Communication and Human Language : Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans (pp. 89-118) Amsterdam : John Benjamins. [PDF]

• [3]   Meguerditchian, A., & Vauclair, J. (2008). Vocal and gestural communication in non human primates and the question of the origin of language. In L.S. Röska-Hardy & E.M. Neumann-Held (Eds.), Learning from animals ? Examining the nature of human uniqueness (pp. 61-85). London : Psychology Press. [PDF]

• [2]   Vauclair, J., & Meguerditchian, A. (2008). The gestural origin of language and its lateralization : theory and data from studies in nonhuman primates. In S. Kern, F. Gayraud, & E. Marsico (Eds.), Emergence of linguistic abilities : From gestures to grammar (pp. 43-59). Cambridge : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [PDF]

• [1]   Vauclair, J., & Meguerditchian, A. (2007). Perceptual and motor lateralization in two species of baboons. In W.D. Hopkins (Ed.), Evolution of hemispheric specialization in primates, Special topics in primatology (pp. 177-198). London : Elsevier/Academic Press. [PDF]

CONFERENCE VIDEO EN LIGNE

Jeux de mains, langues de babouins - Adrien Meguerditchian from Treize Minutes Marseille on Vimeo.

ITV Adrien Meguerditchian from Lisa Eddaïkra on Vimeo.