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The Dissenter · 2025-07-11 · 60 min · 8,978 words

#1122 Daniela Rodrigues: Communication in Apes and Humans, and the Cognitive Foundations of Language

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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Daniela Rodrigues. She's an invited assistant professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, where she teaches master students about the cognitive foundations of language. She studies gestural communication in human and non human primates, and today We're going to talk about exactly that communication in non human prime and non human apes. Gestures, child directed communication, language. and some other related topics. So, Daniela, welcome to the show. It's always it's a pleasure to have you.

Thank you, Ricardo. Thank you for the invitation and it's a real pleasure to be here. Yeah. Yeah. So uh let me start by asking you which kind of non-human hapes have you studied the most, just to Would uh have a little bit of background here.

So actually I I was lucky enough to to study lots of different primates. It was mostly behavior uh studies, uh, but I studied some lamours, um also some crabby eating macaques. Mandrils, uh, and then also chimpanzees. Um

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