Papers & datasets from the lab.

2026

Invisible walls: how pedestrians navigate interactional territories in public spaces

Terwilliger, J., Di Silvestri, J., Murase, S., White, A. E. C., & Rossano, F. — Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vol. 48

Possible identities versus possible absence in three-year-olds' modal reasoning

Meade, M. G., Braswell, N., Santos, L., Cesana-Arlotti, N., & Rossano, F. — Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vol. 48

Coordinative Difficulty Drives Role-Taking in Group Tasks

Potter, M. E., Kao, E., Emralino, L., Terwilliger, J., & Rossano, F. — Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vol. 48

Alphachimp: Tracking and behavior recognition of chimpanzees

Ma, X., Lin, Y., Xu, Y., Kaufhold, S. P., Terwilliger, J., Meza, A., Zhu, Y., Rossano, F., & Wang, Y. — International Journal of Computer Vision, 134(6)

EVApeCognition Dataset

Sánchez-Amaro, A., Ebel van Wijk, S., Molenaar, C., Abuova, A., Mujica-Manrique, L., Leisterer-Peoples, S. M., … & Haun, D. — Dataset

2025

Narratives about epistemic trespassing

Bristol, R., Alhaqab, S., & Rossano, F. — Text & Talk, 45(4)

The origin of great ape gestural forms

Graham, K. E., Rossano, F., & Moore, R. T. — Biological Reviews, 100(1)

Initiation Asymmetry in the Ontogenesis of Social Routines: In Conversation, Caregivers Scaffold 1-Year Olds to Respond, but 2-year Olds Initiate

Terwilliger, J., & Rossano, F. — Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47(0)

2024

AlphaChimp: Tracking and Behavior Recognition of Chimpanzees

Ma, X., Lin, Y., Xu, Y., Kaufhold, S. P., Terwilliger, J., Meza, A., Zhu, Y., Rossano, F., & Wang, Y. — arXiv

How do soundboard-trained dogs respond to human button presses? An investigation into word comprehension

Bastos, A. P., Evenson, A., Wood, P. M., Houghton, Z. N., Naranjo, L., Smith, G. E., Cairo-Evans, A., Korpos, L., Terwilliger, J., & Raghunath, S. — PloS One, 19(8)

Spontaneous playful teasing in four great ape species

Laumer, I. B., Winkler, S. L., Rossano, F., & Cartmill, E. A. — Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291(2016)

As Long as It Catches Mice…

Tu, P., Stacy, S., & Rossano, F. — The Practical Philosophy of AI-Assistants (pp. 133–143)

2023

Chimpact: A longitudinal dataset for understanding chimpanzee behaviors

Ma, X., Kaufhold, S., Su, J., Zhu, W., Terwilliger, J., Meza, A., Zhu, Y., Rossano, F., & Wang, Y. — Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 36

Soundboard-using pets?: Introducing a new global citizen science approach to interspecies communication

Bastos, A. P. M., & Rossano, F. — Interaction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 24(2)

Chimpanzees and bonobos reinstate an interrupted triadic game

Heesen, R., Bangerter, A., Zuberbühler, K., Iglesias, K., Rossano, F., Guéry, J.-P., & Genty, E. — bioRxiv

How to study interactional history in non-human animals? Challenges and opportunities

Rossano, F. — Ethnomethodological conversation analysis in motion: Emerging methods and new technologies (pp. 21–41), Routledge

Reciprocity in dyads and triads: Female rats alter their prosocial behavior according to the social context

Winokur, E. J., Song, C., Leija, E. S., Chen, J., Kross, S., Shamam, D., Aguilar-Rivera, M., Quinn, L., Rossano, F., & Chiba, A. A. — Animal Behavior and Cognition, 10(3)

Beyond Single-Mindedness: A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences

Dingemanse, M., Liesenfeld, A., Rasenberg, M., Albert, S., Ameka, F. K., Birhane, A., Bolis, D., Cassell, J., Clift, R., Cuffari, E., De Jaegher, H., Novaes, C. D., Enfield, N. J., Fusaroli, R., Gregoromichelaki, E., Hutchins, E., Konvalinka, I., Milton, D., Rączaszek‐Leonardi, J., … Wiltschko, M. — Cognitive Science, 47(1)

Understanding Embodied Reference with Touch-Line Transformer

Li, Y., Chen, X., Zhao, H., Gong, J., Zhou, G., Rossano, F., & Zhu, Y. — ICLR

2022

Remediation of infelicitous epistemic stance

Bristol, R., & Rossano, F. — Journal of Pragmatics, 199

Every product needs a process: Unpacking joint commitment as a process across species

Bangerter, A., Genty, E., Heesen, R., Rossano, F., & Zuberbühler, K. — Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1859)

How 2- and 4-year-old children coordinate social interactions with peers

Rossano, F., Terwilliger, J., Bangerter, A., Genty, E., Heesen, R., & Zuberbühler, K. — Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1859)

Sharing Rewards Undermines Coordinated Hunting

Zhao, M., Tang, N., Dahmani, A. L., Zhu, Y., Rossano, F., & Gao, T. — Journal of Computational Biology, 29(9)

In situ bidirectional human-robot value alignment

Yuan, L., Gao, X., Zheng, Z., Edmonds, M., Wu, Y. N., Rossano, F., Lu, H., Zhu, Y., & Zhu, S.-C. — Science Robotics, 7(68)

What is the point? A theory of mind model of relevance

Jiang, K., Stacy, S., Dahmani, A. L., Jiang, B., Rossano, F., Zhu, Y., & Gao, T. — Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 44(44)

2021

Evidence of joint commitment in great apes' natural joint actions

Heesen, R., Zuberbühler, K., Bangerter, A., Iglesias, K., Rossano, F., Pajot, A., Guéry, J.-P., & Genty, E. — Royal Society Open Science, 8(12)

Chimpanzees and bonobos use social leverage in an ultimatum game

Sánchez-Amaro, A., & Rossano, F. — Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1962)

Assessing joint commitment as a process in great apes

Heesen, R., Bangerter, A., Zuberbühler, K., Iglesias, K., Neumann, C., Pajot, A., Perrenoud, L., Guéry, J.-P., Rossano, F., & Genty, E. — IScience, 24(8)

How environmental unpredictability and harshness affect chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in risk-choice and temporal discounting tasks

Sánchez-Amaro, A., Tan, J., Kaufhold, S. P., Fernández-Navarro, S., & Rossano, F. — Journal of Comparative Psychology, 135(2)

Gibbon strategies in a food competition task

Sánchez-Amaro, A., Ball, R., & Rossano, F. — Scientific Reports, 11(1)

Animal communication overview

Rossano, F., & Kaufhold, S. P. — The Cambridge handbook of animal cognition (pp. 5–35), Cambridge University Press

Sharing is not needed: Modeling animal coordinated hunting with reinforcement learning

Zhao, M., Tang, N., Dahmani, A. L., Perry, R. R., Zhu, Y., Rossano, F., & Gao, T. — Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43(43)

2020

How apes get into and out of joint actions: Shared intentionality as an interactional achievement

Genty, E., Heesen, R., Guéry, J.-P., Rossano, F., Zuberbühler, K., & Bangerter, A. — Interaction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 21(3)

Bonobos engage in joint commitment

Heesen, R., Bangerter, A., Zuberbühler, K., Rossano, F., Iglesias, K., Guéry, J.-P., & Genty, E. — Science Advances, 6(51)

Gibbons exploit information about what a competitor can see

Sánchez-Amaro, A., Tan, J., Kaufhold, S. P., & Rossano, F. — Animal Cognition, 23(2)

Epistemic trespassing and disagreement

Bristol, R., & Rossano, F. — Journal of Memory and Language, 110

Children, but not great apes, respect ownership

Kanngiesser, P., Rossano, F., Frickel, R., Tomm, A., & Tomasello, M. — Developmental Science, 23(1)

2019

Children's respect for ownership across diverse societies

Kanngiesser, P., Rossano, F., Zeidler, H., Haun, D., & Tomasello, M. — Developmental Psychology, 55(11)

A Wearable Device Network to Track Animal Behavior and Relationships in the Wild

Camal, L., Kirtane, A., Blanco, T., Casas, R., Rossano, F., & Aksanli, B. — 2019 IEEE 10th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON)

Polar answers

Enfield, N. J., Stivers, T., Brown, P., Englert, C., Harjunpää, K., Hayashi, M., Heinemann, T., Hoymann, G., Keisanen, T., & Rauniomaa, M. — Journal of Linguistics, 55(2)

The word order of languages predicts native speakers' working memory

Amici, F., Sánchez-Amaro, A., Sebastián-Enesco, C., Cacchione, T., Allritz, M., Salazar-Bonet, J., & Rossano, F. — Scientific Reports, 9(1)

The structure and timing of human versus primate social interaction

Rossano, F. — Human Language: from Genes and Brains to Behavior, MIT Press

2018

Score-Group Framing Negatively Impacts Peer Evaluations

Durkin, C., Rossano, F., & Klemmer, S. — Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2(CSCW)

The preference for scarcity: A developmental and comparative perspective

John, M., Melis, A. P., Read, D., Rossano, F., & Tomasello, M. — Psychology & Marketing, 35(8)

Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapeutic Change

Voutilainen, L., Rossano, F., & Peräkylä, A. — Longitudinal Studies on the Organization of Social Interaction (pp. 225–254), Palgrave Macmillan UK

Social manipulation, turn-taking and cooperation in apes: Implications for the evolution of language-based interaction in humans

Rossano, F. — Interaction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 19(1–2)

The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got Language

Arbib, M. A., Aboitiz, F., Burkart, J. M., Corballis, M., Coudé, G., Hecht, E., Liebal, K., Myowa-Yamakoshi, M., Pustejovsky, J., Putt, S., Rossano, F., Russon, A. E., Schoenemann, P. T., Seifert, U., Semendeferi, K., Sinha, C., Stout, D., Volterra, V., Wacewicz, S., & Wilson, B. — Interaction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 19(1–2)

2017

2016

Young Children's Understanding of Social Norms and Social Institutions

Kanngiesser, P., Schmidt, M. F. H., & Rossano, F. — Women and Children as Victims and Offenders: Background, Prevention, Reintegration (pp. 195–210), Springer International Publishing

2015

2014

"Requests" and "offers" in orangutans and human infants

Rossano, F., & Liebal, K. — Studies in Language and Social Interaction (Vol. 26, pp. 335–364), John Benjamins Publishing Company

Domestic dogs and puppies can use human voice direction referentially

Rossano, F., Nitzschner, M., & Tomasello, M. — Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1785)

2013

Supra-session courses of action in psychotherapy

Bercelli, F., Rossano, F., & Viaro, M. — Journal of Pragmatics, 57

The ontogenetic ritualization of bonobo gestures

Halina, M., Rossano, F., & Tomasello, M. — Animal Cognition, 16(4)

Sequence organization and timing of bonobo mother-infant interactions

Rossano, F. — Interaction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 14(2)

2012

Gaze in Conversation

Rossano, F. — The Handbook of Conversation Analysis (1st ed., pp. 308–329), Wiley

One-Year-Old Infants Follow Others' Voice Direction

Rossano, F., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. — Psychological Science, 23(11)

The design and recognition of first actions in great apes

Rossano, F. — Conference Language, Culture, and Mind V

Mobilizing response in interaction: A compositional view of questions

Stivers, T., & Rossano, F. — Questions: Formal, functional and interactional perspectives (pp. 58–80), Cambridge University Press

Gaze behavior in face-to-face interaction

Rossano, F. — PhD Dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen

2011

2010

Questioning and responding in Italian

Rossano, F. — Journal of Pragmatics, 42(10)

A Scalar View of Response Relevance

Stivers, T., & Rossano, F. — Research on Language and Social Interaction, 43(1)

Mobilizing Response

Stivers, T., & Rossano, F. — Research on Language and Social Interaction, 43(1)

2009

Gaze, questioning and culture

Rossano, F., Brown, P., & Levinson, S. C. — Cambridge University Press

Universals and cultural variation in turn-taking in conversation

Stivers, T., Enfield, N. J., Brown, P., Englert, C., Hayashi, M., Heinemann, T., Hoymann, G., Rossano, F., de Ruiter, J. P., Yoon, K.-E., & Levinson, S. C. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(26)

2008

Different place, different action: Clients' personal narratives in psychotherapy

Bercelli, F., Rossano, F., & Viaro, M. — Text & Talk, 28(3)

Clients' responses to therapists' reinterpretations

Bercelli, F., Rossano, F., & Viaro, M. — Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy (pp. 43–61), Cambridge University Press

2007

Projecting types of actions and displaying recognition of them through visible behavior

Rossano, F. — 93rd Annual Convention of the National Communication Association

2006

Gaze behavior in multi-unit turns

Rossano, F. — 92nd Annual Convention National Communication Association

Clients' responses to therapists' formulations in cognitive and systemic therapies

Bercelli, F., Rossano, F., & Viaro, M. — ICCA 06, International Conference on Conversation Analysis

When the eyes meet: Using gaze to mobilize response

Rossano, F. — International Conference on Conversation Analysis

2005

When it's over is it really over? On the effects of sustained gaze vs. gaze withdrawal at sequence possible completion

Rossano, F. — International Pragmatic Association, Riva Del Garda

Storytellings as patients' responses to therapists' elaborations

Bercelli, F., Rossano, F., & Viaro, M. — 9th International Pragmatic Conference, Riva Del Garda, Italy