THIBAUD GRUBER, PHD
Publications
All publications are either accessible as open-access on journal website or on my University of Geneva repository. I am happy to send any publication on request (thibaud.gruber [at] unige.ch)
* : corresponding author
§ : joint senior authors
‡ : joint first authors
PREPRINTS
Ceravolo, L., Debracque, C., Gruber, T.§ & Grandjean, D.§ (bioRxiv 2020) Human temporal voices areas are sensitive to chimpanzee vocalizations. doi: 10.1101/2020.10.29.360362
Berger, I., Hobaiter, C., Bell, M., de Moor, D. & Gruber, T. (bioRxiv, 2019) Ecological and dietary correlates of tool use behaviour in wild chimpanzees. doi: 10.1101/670539
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
41. Gruber, T.*, Bahzydai, M. Sievers, C., Clément, F. & Dukes, D. (2021) The ABC of social learning: Affect, Behaviour and Cognition. Psychological Review, doi: 10.1037/rev0000311
40. Bates, A. E., Primack, R. B., PAN-Environment Work Group, and Duarte, C. M. (2021) The global COVID-19 lockdown reveals humans as threats and custodians of biodiversity. Conservation Biology. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109175
39. Frick, A., Schleihauf, H., Satchell, L.P., & Gruber, T. (2021) Carry-over effects of tool functionality and previous unsuccessfulness increase overimitation in children. Royal Society Open Science, doi: 10.1098/rsos.201373
38. Debracque, C., Gruber, T.*, 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, doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113133
37. Gruber, T.* (2020) A cognitive approach to cumulative technological culture is useful and necessary but only if it also applies to other species. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46. doi:10.1017/S0140525X2000014X
36. Pesbworth, P., Gruber, T., Miller, J. D., Zuberbühler, K., Young, S. L. (2020) Selecting between iron-rich and clay-rich soils: a geophagy field experiment with black-and-white colobus monkeys in the Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda. Primates, doi: 10.1007/s10329-020-00845-y
35. Gruber, T.*‡, Debracque, C.‡, Ceravolo, L., Igloi, K., Marin Bosch, B., Frühholz, S.§ & Grandjean, D.§ (2020) Human discrimination and categorization of emotions in voices: a functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) study. Frontiers in Neurosciences, . doi: 10.3389/fnins.2020.0057
34. Sievers, C. & Gruber, T. (2020) Can nonhuman primate signals be arbitrarily meaningful like human words: An affective approach. Animal Behavior and Cognition, Special Issue Seyfarth et al. 1980, doi: 10.26451/abc.07.02.08.2020
33. Gruber, T.* (2019) Afterword - Chimpanzee stick use culture in Western Uganda: not so limited after all, and what this means. Revue de Primatologie, 10. doi: 10.4000/primatologie.6237
32. Gruber, T.*, Frick, A., Hirata, S., Ikuma, A. & Biro, D. (2019) Spontaneous categorization of tools based on observation in chimpanzees and children. Scientific Reports, 9, 18256, doi:10.1038/s41598-019-54345-1
31. Gallot, Q. & Gruber, T.* (2019) Spontaneous use and modification of body parts for tool use in a raven. Ethology, doi: 10.1111/eth.12928
30. Gruber, T.*, Luncz, L., Mörchen, J., Schuppli, C., Kendal, R.§ & Hockings, K.§ (2019) Cultural change in animals: A flexible behavioural adaptation to human disturbance. Palgrave Communications, 5:64. doi: 10.1057/s41599-019-0271-4
29. Fröhlich, M., Sievers, C., Gruber, T.§, & van Schaik, C. P.§ (2019) Multimodal communication and language origins: integrating gestures and vocalizations. Biological Reviews, doi: 10.1111/brv.12535
28. Grund, C., Neumann, C. Zuberbühler, K. & Gruber, T.* (2019) Necessity creates opportunities for tool use in wild chimpanzees. Behavioral Ecology, 30(4), 1136-1144, doi: 10.1093/beheco/arz062
27. Gruber, T.*, Deschenaux, A., Frick, A., & Clément, F. (2019) Group membership influences more social identification than social learning or overimitation in children. Child Development. 90(3), 728-745. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12931
26. Lamon, N., Neumann, C., Zuberbühler, K.§ & Gruber, T.*§ (2018) Wild chimpanzees select tool material based on efficiency and knowledge. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1715
25. Crockford, C. ‡, Gruber, T.*‡ & Zuberbühler, K. (2018) Chimpanzee hoo variants differ according to context. Royal Society Open Science, 5: 172066, doi: 10.1098/rsos.172066
24. Frick, A., Clément, F. § & Gruber, T. § (2017) Evidence for a sex effect during overimitation: Boys copy irrelevant modelled actions more than girls across cultures. Royal Society Open Science, 4, 170367, doi: 10.1098/rsos.170367
23. Lamon, N., Neumann, C., Gruber, T.§ & Zuberbühler, K.§ (2017) Kin-based cultural transmission of tool use in wild chimpanzees. Science Advances, 3, e1602750. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1602750
22. Gruber, T.* & Grandjean, D. (2017) A comparative neurological approach to the decoding of vocal emotional expressions in primate vocalisations. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 73, 182-190. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.12.004
21. Townsend, S., Koski, S., … Gruber, T., …, & Manser, M. (2017) Exorcising Grice’s ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals. Biological Reviews, 92:1427-33. doi: 10.1111/brv.12289.
20. Gruber, T.* & Clay, Z. (2016) A comparison between bonobos and chimpanzees: A review and update. Evolutionary Anthropology, 25, 239-252. doi: 10.1002/evan.21501
19. Gruber, T.*, Zuberbühler, K. & Neumann, C. (2016) Travel fosters tool use in wild chimpanzees. eLife, 5:e16371. doi: 10.7554/ eLife.16371.
18. Gruber, T.* (2016) Great apes do not learn novel tool use easily: Conservatism, functional fixedness or cultural influence? International Journal of Primatology, 37 (2), 296-316. doi: 10.1007/s10764-016-9902-4
17. Sievers, C. & Gruber, T. (2016) Reference in humans and non-human primate communication: What does it take to refer? Animal Cognition, 19(4), 759-768. doi: 10.1007/s10071-016-0974-5
16. Gruber, T.*, Zuberbühler, K., Clément, F. & van Schaik, C.P. (2015) Apes have culture but may not know that they do. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:91. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00091
15. Gruber, T.*, Poisot, T., Zuberbühler, K., Hoppitt, W. & Hobaiter, C. (2015) The spread of a novel behaviour in wild chimpanzees: New insights into the ape cultural mind. Communicative & Integrative Biology, 8(2), e1017164. doi: 10.1080/19420889
14. Hobaiter, C., Poisot, T., Zuberbühler, K., Hoppitt, W. & Gruber, T.* (2014) Social network analysis shows direct evidence for social transmission of tool use in wild chimpanzees. PLOS Biology, 12(9): e1001960. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001960
13. Gruber, T.* (2014) Wild born orangutans (Pongo abelii) engage in triadic interactions during play. International Journal of Primatology, 35(2), 411-424. doi: 10.1007/s10764-013-9745-1
12. Gruber, T.* (2013) Historical hypotheses of chimpanzee tool use behaviour in relation to natural and human-induced changes in an East African rain forest. Revue de Primatologie, 5, document 66. doi: 10.4000/primatologie.1690
11. Gruber, T.* & Zuberbühler, K. (2013) Vocal recruitment for joint travel in wild chimpanzees. PLOS ONE, 8(9): e76073. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076073
10. Gruber, T.* (2013) Uncovering the cultural knowledge of sanctuary apes. Communicative & Integrative Biology, 6(3), e23833. doi. 10.4161/cib.23833
9. Gruber, T.*, Singleton, I. & van Schaik, C.P. (2012) Sumatran orangutans differ in their cultural knowledge but not in their cognitive abilities. Current Biology, 22(23), 2231-2235. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.041
8. Gruber, T.*, Potts, K.B., Krupenye, C., Byrne, M.-R., Mackworth-Young, C. McGrew, W.C., Reynolds, V. & Zuberbühler, K. (2012) The influence of ecology on animal cultural behaviour: A case study of five Ugandan chimpanzee communities. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 126(4):446-57. doi: 10.1037/a0028702
7. Gruber, T.* & Zuberbühler, K. (2012) Evolutionary origins of the human cultural mind. The Psychologist, 25(5):364-68
6. Gruber, T.*, Muller, M.N., Reynolds, V., Wrangham, R.W. & Zuberbühler, K. (2011) Community-specific evaluation of tool affordances in wild chimpanzees. Scientific Reports, 1, doi: 10.1038/srep00128
5. Clay, Z., Pika, S., Gruber, T. & Zuberbühler, K. (2011) Female bonobos use copulation calls as social signals. Biology Letters, 7(4):513-6. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.1227
4. Gruber, T.* & Nagle, L. (2010) Territorial reactions of male Yellowhammers (Emberiza citrinella) toward a specific song structure. Journal of Ornithology, 151, 645-654. doi: 10.1007/s10336-010-0502-3
3. Gruber, T., Clay, Z. & Zuberbühler, K. (2010) A comparison of bonobo and chimpanzee tool use: evidence for a female bias in the Pan lineage. Animal Behaviour, 80(6), 1023-1033. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.09.005
2. Gruber, T., Reynolds, V. & Zuberbühler, K. (2010) The knowns and unknowns of chimpanzee culture. Communicative & Integrative Biology, 3(3): 221–223. doi: 10.4161/cib.3.3.10658
1. Gruber, T., Muller, M.N., Strimling, P., Wrangham, R.W. & Zuberbühler, K. (2009) Wild chimpanzees rely on cultural knowledge to solve an experimental honey acquisition task. Current biology, 19:1806-10. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.08.060
BOOK CHAPTERS
4. Heesen, R., Sievers, C., Gruber, T. & Clay, Z. (forthcoming) Primate communication: Affective, intentional, or both? In Primate Cognitive Studies. Editors: T. Schwarz & M. Beran. Cambridge University Press. p XX-XX
3. Clay, Z., Moscovice, L., & Gruber, T. (forthcoming) Bonobo sexual psychology. In Cambridge Handbook of XXX. Editor: T. Shackelford. Cambridge University Press. p XX-XX
2. Gruber, T. & Sievers, C. (2019) Affective social learning and the emotional side of cultural learning in primates. In Foundations of Affective Social Learning. Edited by D. Dukes & F. Clément. Oxford University Press, p 41-66 . OA [Academia]
1. Sievers, C., Wild, M. & Gruber, T. (2017) Flexibility, inference and intentionality in animal communication. In Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds. Edited by K. Andrews & Jacob Beck. Routledge, p 333-342. OA [Academia]
* : corresponding author
§ : joint senior authors
‡ : joint first authors
PREPRINTS
Ceravolo, L., Debracque, C., Gruber, T.§ & Grandjean, D.§ (bioRxiv 2020) Human temporal voices areas are sensitive to chimpanzee vocalizations. doi: 10.1101/2020.10.29.360362
Berger, I., Hobaiter, C., Bell, M., de Moor, D. & Gruber, T. (bioRxiv, 2019) Ecological and dietary correlates of tool use behaviour in wild chimpanzees. doi: 10.1101/670539
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
41. Gruber, T.*, Bahzydai, M. Sievers, C., Clément, F. & Dukes, D. (2021) The ABC of social learning: Affect, Behaviour and Cognition. Psychological Review, doi: 10.1037/rev0000311
40. Bates, A. E., Primack, R. B., PAN-Environment Work Group, and Duarte, C. M. (2021) The global COVID-19 lockdown reveals humans as threats and custodians of biodiversity. Conservation Biology. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109175
39. Frick, A., Schleihauf, H., Satchell, L.P., & Gruber, T. (2021) Carry-over effects of tool functionality and previous unsuccessfulness increase overimitation in children. Royal Society Open Science, doi: 10.1098/rsos.201373
38. Debracque, C., Gruber, T.*, 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, doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113133
37. Gruber, T.* (2020) A cognitive approach to cumulative technological culture is useful and necessary but only if it also applies to other species. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46. doi:10.1017/S0140525X2000014X
36. Pesbworth, P., Gruber, T., Miller, J. D., Zuberbühler, K., Young, S. L. (2020) Selecting between iron-rich and clay-rich soils: a geophagy field experiment with black-and-white colobus monkeys in the Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda. Primates, doi: 10.1007/s10329-020-00845-y
35. Gruber, T.*‡, Debracque, C.‡, Ceravolo, L., Igloi, K., Marin Bosch, B., Frühholz, S.§ & Grandjean, D.§ (2020) Human discrimination and categorization of emotions in voices: a functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) study. Frontiers in Neurosciences, . doi: 10.3389/fnins.2020.0057
34. Sievers, C. & Gruber, T. (2020) Can nonhuman primate signals be arbitrarily meaningful like human words: An affective approach. Animal Behavior and Cognition, Special Issue Seyfarth et al. 1980, doi: 10.26451/abc.07.02.08.2020
33. Gruber, T.* (2019) Afterword - Chimpanzee stick use culture in Western Uganda: not so limited after all, and what this means. Revue de Primatologie, 10. doi: 10.4000/primatologie.6237
32. Gruber, T.*, Frick, A., Hirata, S., Ikuma, A. & Biro, D. (2019) Spontaneous categorization of tools based on observation in chimpanzees and children. Scientific Reports, 9, 18256, doi:10.1038/s41598-019-54345-1
31. Gallot, Q. & Gruber, T.* (2019) Spontaneous use and modification of body parts for tool use in a raven. Ethology, doi: 10.1111/eth.12928
30. Gruber, T.*, Luncz, L., Mörchen, J., Schuppli, C., Kendal, R.§ & Hockings, K.§ (2019) Cultural change in animals: A flexible behavioural adaptation to human disturbance. Palgrave Communications, 5:64. doi: 10.1057/s41599-019-0271-4
29. Fröhlich, M., Sievers, C., Gruber, T.§, & van Schaik, C. P.§ (2019) Multimodal communication and language origins: integrating gestures and vocalizations. Biological Reviews, doi: 10.1111/brv.12535
28. Grund, C., Neumann, C. Zuberbühler, K. & Gruber, T.* (2019) Necessity creates opportunities for tool use in wild chimpanzees. Behavioral Ecology, 30(4), 1136-1144, doi: 10.1093/beheco/arz062
27. Gruber, T.*, Deschenaux, A., Frick, A., & Clément, F. (2019) Group membership influences more social identification than social learning or overimitation in children. Child Development. 90(3), 728-745. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12931
26. Lamon, N., Neumann, C., Zuberbühler, K.§ & Gruber, T.*§ (2018) Wild chimpanzees select tool material based on efficiency and knowledge. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1715
25. Crockford, C. ‡, Gruber, T.*‡ & Zuberbühler, K. (2018) Chimpanzee hoo variants differ according to context. Royal Society Open Science, 5: 172066, doi: 10.1098/rsos.172066
24. Frick, A., Clément, F. § & Gruber, T. § (2017) Evidence for a sex effect during overimitation: Boys copy irrelevant modelled actions more than girls across cultures. Royal Society Open Science, 4, 170367, doi: 10.1098/rsos.170367
23. Lamon, N., Neumann, C., Gruber, T.§ & Zuberbühler, K.§ (2017) Kin-based cultural transmission of tool use in wild chimpanzees. Science Advances, 3, e1602750. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1602750
22. Gruber, T.* & Grandjean, D. (2017) A comparative neurological approach to the decoding of vocal emotional expressions in primate vocalisations. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 73, 182-190. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.12.004
21. Townsend, S., Koski, S., … Gruber, T., …, & Manser, M. (2017) Exorcising Grice’s ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals. Biological Reviews, 92:1427-33. doi: 10.1111/brv.12289.
20. Gruber, T.* & Clay, Z. (2016) A comparison between bonobos and chimpanzees: A review and update. Evolutionary Anthropology, 25, 239-252. doi: 10.1002/evan.21501
19. Gruber, T.*, Zuberbühler, K. & Neumann, C. (2016) Travel fosters tool use in wild chimpanzees. eLife, 5:e16371. doi: 10.7554/ eLife.16371.
18. Gruber, T.* (2016) Great apes do not learn novel tool use easily: Conservatism, functional fixedness or cultural influence? International Journal of Primatology, 37 (2), 296-316. doi: 10.1007/s10764-016-9902-4
17. Sievers, C. & Gruber, T. (2016) Reference in humans and non-human primate communication: What does it take to refer? Animal Cognition, 19(4), 759-768. doi: 10.1007/s10071-016-0974-5
16. Gruber, T.*, Zuberbühler, K., Clément, F. & van Schaik, C.P. (2015) Apes have culture but may not know that they do. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:91. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00091
15. Gruber, T.*, Poisot, T., Zuberbühler, K., Hoppitt, W. & Hobaiter, C. (2015) The spread of a novel behaviour in wild chimpanzees: New insights into the ape cultural mind. Communicative & Integrative Biology, 8(2), e1017164. doi: 10.1080/19420889
14. Hobaiter, C., Poisot, T., Zuberbühler, K., Hoppitt, W. & Gruber, T.* (2014) Social network analysis shows direct evidence for social transmission of tool use in wild chimpanzees. PLOS Biology, 12(9): e1001960. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001960
13. Gruber, T.* (2014) Wild born orangutans (Pongo abelii) engage in triadic interactions during play. International Journal of Primatology, 35(2), 411-424. doi: 10.1007/s10764-013-9745-1
12. Gruber, T.* (2013) Historical hypotheses of chimpanzee tool use behaviour in relation to natural and human-induced changes in an East African rain forest. Revue de Primatologie, 5, document 66. doi: 10.4000/primatologie.1690
11. Gruber, T.* & Zuberbühler, K. (2013) Vocal recruitment for joint travel in wild chimpanzees. PLOS ONE, 8(9): e76073. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076073
10. Gruber, T.* (2013) Uncovering the cultural knowledge of sanctuary apes. Communicative & Integrative Biology, 6(3), e23833. doi. 10.4161/cib.23833
9. Gruber, T.*, Singleton, I. & van Schaik, C.P. (2012) Sumatran orangutans differ in their cultural knowledge but not in their cognitive abilities. Current Biology, 22(23), 2231-2235. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.041
8. Gruber, T.*, Potts, K.B., Krupenye, C., Byrne, M.-R., Mackworth-Young, C. McGrew, W.C., Reynolds, V. & Zuberbühler, K. (2012) The influence of ecology on animal cultural behaviour: A case study of five Ugandan chimpanzee communities. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 126(4):446-57. doi: 10.1037/a0028702
7. Gruber, T.* & Zuberbühler, K. (2012) Evolutionary origins of the human cultural mind. The Psychologist, 25(5):364-68
6. Gruber, T.*, Muller, M.N., Reynolds, V., Wrangham, R.W. & Zuberbühler, K. (2011) Community-specific evaluation of tool affordances in wild chimpanzees. Scientific Reports, 1, doi: 10.1038/srep00128
5. Clay, Z., Pika, S., Gruber, T. & Zuberbühler, K. (2011) Female bonobos use copulation calls as social signals. Biology Letters, 7(4):513-6. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.1227
4. Gruber, T.* & Nagle, L. (2010) Territorial reactions of male Yellowhammers (Emberiza citrinella) toward a specific song structure. Journal of Ornithology, 151, 645-654. doi: 10.1007/s10336-010-0502-3
3. Gruber, T., Clay, Z. & Zuberbühler, K. (2010) A comparison of bonobo and chimpanzee tool use: evidence for a female bias in the Pan lineage. Animal Behaviour, 80(6), 1023-1033. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.09.005
2. Gruber, T., Reynolds, V. & Zuberbühler, K. (2010) The knowns and unknowns of chimpanzee culture. Communicative & Integrative Biology, 3(3): 221–223. doi: 10.4161/cib.3.3.10658
1. Gruber, T., Muller, M.N., Strimling, P., Wrangham, R.W. & Zuberbühler, K. (2009) Wild chimpanzees rely on cultural knowledge to solve an experimental honey acquisition task. Current biology, 19:1806-10. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.08.060
BOOK CHAPTERS
4. Heesen, R., Sievers, C., Gruber, T. & Clay, Z. (forthcoming) Primate communication: Affective, intentional, or both? In Primate Cognitive Studies. Editors: T. Schwarz & M. Beran. Cambridge University Press. p XX-XX
3. Clay, Z., Moscovice, L., & Gruber, T. (forthcoming) Bonobo sexual psychology. In Cambridge Handbook of XXX. Editor: T. Shackelford. Cambridge University Press. p XX-XX
2. Gruber, T. & Sievers, C. (2019) Affective social learning and the emotional side of cultural learning in primates. In Foundations of Affective Social Learning. Edited by D. Dukes & F. Clément. Oxford University Press, p 41-66 . OA [Academia]
1. Sievers, C., Wild, M. & Gruber, T. (2017) Flexibility, inference and intentionality in animal communication. In Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds. Edited by K. Andrews & Jacob Beck. Routledge, p 333-342. OA [Academia]
