Jared P. Taglialatela, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biology

Kennesaw State University

and

Research Associate in the Hopkins Laboratory

Yerkes National Primate Research Center

::email jtaglia@emory.edu

::phone 404.727.7726

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

::RESEARCH

My primary research interest is in the evolutionary origins of human language.  I am interested in the processes that selected for adaptive prerequisite behaviors and structures, as well as 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 JP, Russell JL, Schaeffer JA, Hopkins WD (2009).  Visualizing vocal perception in the chimpanzee brain. Cerebral Cortex 19: 1151-1157.

Taglialatela JP, Russell JL, Schaeffer JA, Hopkins WD (2008). Communicative signaling activates 'Broca's' homolog in chimpanzees. Current Biology 18: 343-348.

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

Hopkins WD, Taglialatela JP, Leavens DA (2007). Chimpanzees differentially produce novel vocalizations to capture the attention of  human. Animal Behaviour 73: 281-286.

Taglialatela JP, Cantalupo C, Hopkins WD (2006). Gesture handedness predicts asymmetry in the chimpanzee inferior frontal gyrus. NeuroReport 17(9): 923-927.

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