Jared P. Taglialatela, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate

Yerkes National Primate Research Center

 

::email  jtaglia@emory.edu

::phone  404.727.7726

::website  http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~jtaglia

 

  

::Click here for information about my Ape Communication Workshop at the 2008 Evolution of Language Conference in Barcelona (March 11, 2008)

 

::Research

My primary research interest is in the evolutionary origins of human spoken language as well as the processes that selected for adaptive prerequisite behaviors and structures, and how these mechanisms operate on both an evolutionary and individual time scale. My research focuses on animal communication, specifically primate vocal and gestural behavior, the communicative function of these signals, and how individuals produce and perceive these utterances. Currently, my research is supported by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

 

 

::Selected Recent Publications

 

Taglialatela, J. P., S. Savage-Rumbaugh, & L. A.Baker (2003). Vocal production by a language-competent bonobo, Pan paniscus. International Journal of Primatology 24(1):1-17.

 

Taglialatela, J. P., C.Cantalupo, & W. D. Hopkins (2006). Gesture handedness predicts asymmetry in the chimpanzee inferior frontal gyrus. NeuroReport 17(9): 923-927.

 

Hopkins, W.D., J.P. Taglialatela, & D. A. Leavens (2007). Chimpanzees differentially produce novel vocalizations to capture the attention of a human. Animal Behaviour 73: 281-286.

 

Taglialatela, J. P., M. Dadda, & W. D. Hopkins (2007). Sex differences in asymmetry of the planum parietale in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Behavioral Brain Research 184: 185-191.

 

Hopkins,W. D., J.P. Taglialatela, L. Dunham, & P. Pierre (2007). Behavioral and neuroanatomical correlates of white matter asymmetries in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). European Journal of Neuroscience 25: 2565-2570.

 

Taglialatela, J. P., J. L. Russell, J. A. Schaeffer, & W. D. Hopkins (2008). Communicative signaling activates 'Broca's' homolog in chimpanzees. Current Biology 18: 343-348.