Comparative Minds Research Group

🌟 Our research group member Dr. Miquel Llorente will be a plenary speaker at SAVECC 2025 (20–22 Nov)! In a recent interview, he reflects on his career in behavioral science and how primate research informs human behavior.
🎥 Watch the interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPt8...

Reforzar la expresión oral desde infantil mejora la lectoescritura y el rendimiento académico Equipos de investigación de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra y de la Universitat de Girona apuntan a la necesidad de repensar la enseñanza de la lengua para dar protagonismo al lenguaje oral desde las prim...

🗞️ Read the full interview here (Spanish version):
www.elperiodico.com/es/sociedad/...

El reforç de l’oralitat des d’infantil millora la lectoescriptura i l’èxit escolar Dos estudis realitzats per la Universitat Pompeu Fabra i la Universitat de Girona apunten a la necessitat de repensar l’ensenyament de la llengua per donar protagonisme al llenguatge oral des de les p...

🗞️ Read the full interview here (Catalan version): www.elperiodico.cat/ca/societat/...

➕ More information:
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🗣️👋 Our member @ingridvilag.bsky.social joined Prof. Pilar Prieto (ICREA–UPF) and @juliafloritpons.bsky.social (UPF) in El Periódico to discuss how speech, gesture, and bodily expression are key to early language learning and inclusion, underscoring the central role of orality in education. ✨🧒

🔗 Read the article (in Spanish) in elDiario.es
📖 Schleihauf et al. (2025), Science
👉 doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Can chimpanzees really change their minds? 🐒 A new Science study shows they can rationally revise their beliefs when faced with new evidence. Dr. Miquel Llorente shared insights in elDiario.es, highlighting the study’s rigor and its implications for understanding metacognition.

The PhD student will join an ongoing research project on multimodal communication in early childhood, with a specific focus on the role of gestures in peer interactions and the impact of culture in their development.
🌟🎓💡 Come join us in Girona! 🌊🚀

🎓💡 Do you want to pursue a PhD with us? We aim to sponsor a candidate for an Inphinit Predoctoral Retaining Fellowship, a competitive call for predoctoral fellowships awarded by La Caixa. 📅 Deadline for application: 14/11/2025.

More information here: www.udg.edu/ca/grupsrece...

Our co-PI Dr. Miquel Llorente shares a heartfelt reflection on Jane Goodall in elDiario.es ✨

Goodall transformed how we understand chimpanzees —and ourselves— while inspiring generations to take action for a more sustainable and compassionate world. 🌍

📰 www.eldiario.es/sociedad/reg...

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New book alert! 📚 Prof. Héctor Marín Manrique explores the evolutionary roots of conformity in "El cerebro… ¿tu peor enemigo?" (Editorial Adarve, 2025). Discover how the human brain can sometimes act against our own best interests.

#Neuroscience #Psychology #Behavior #HumanMind

ISGS-Catalonia Online Lecture Series Registration for Online Talks and Mailing List

Register to the talk and/or to stay alert on future events by clicking here: forms.gle/LtA8oEuBH9Uu...

Poster announcing an online talk by Prof. Sotaro Kita of the University of Warwick taking place on Friday 26th September at 12:30pm (GMT+2). The title of the talk is Gesture, Language, and Thought. It is part of the online lecture series organised by ISGS Catalonia a hub of the International Society for Gesture Studies. The talk is hosted by the Prosody and Gesture Study Group at University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona and is also broadcasted online. Registration is possible by clicking on a link in the post.

We are pleased to announce the establishment of ISGS-Catalonia, a hub of the International Society of Gesture studies (ISGS) based in Catalonia. Our inaugural event will feature alecture by Prof. Sotaro Kita on September 26, 2025 at 12:30 pm (GMT+2).

🎤 Inaugural lecture:
Gesture, Language and Thought – Prof. Sotaro Kita @sotarokita.bsky.social, University of Warwick

📅 September 26, 2025 | 12:30 pm (GMT+2)
📍 Universitat Pompeu Fabra & online (hybrid)

Sign up for the talk & future events 🖐️: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Excited to share that ISGS-Catalonia is now officially established! 🎉😁 This new hub of the International Society of Gesture Studies (ISGS), coordinated by a steering group from 5 Catalan universities, aims to promote gesture research locally and internationally. 🌍
(website coming soon!)

🚨 New paper in Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans! Dr. Llorente and Dr. Castelain, in collaboration with Dr. Guitton, propose viewing robots as “technological primates”, suggesting that primatology offers a unifying framework to study robot psychology and social interactions. 🐒🤖

✨Exciting news!✨ We’ve been awarded a Generación de Conocimiento 2024 grant from @cienciagob.bsky.social 🎉

Our project “Gestures in ACTion (G-ACT)” will be led by Dr. Thomas Castelain (IP) with Dr. Miquel Llorente & Dr. Ingrid Vilà-Giménez @ingridvilag.bsky.social

We can’t wait to get started! 🚀

MSCA-PF-2025: Comparative Minds Research Group_Universitat de Girona

📍 Host Institution: Universitat de Girona (UdG), Spain

🌐 Research Group: Comparative Minds – More info on EURAXESS euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...

🗓️ Internal deadline to express interest: 1 Jul 2025 - 16:00h

🔍 Research areas: Comparative cognition, interdisciplinary studies of non-human minds, cognitive evolution, cognitive neuroscience, animal behavior, social cognition, oral multimodal communication, language development, human thinking.

Our group is dedicated to exploring cognition, behavior, multimodal communication, and the evolutionary roots of the mind through a comparative and interdisciplinary approach.

🚨 Calling postdocs!

📣 The Comparative Minds Research Group is looking for researchers interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) 2025.

📩 Get in touch if you're interested!
comparativeminds@udg.edu
www.udg.edu/ca/grupsrece...

Meet our interdisciplinary team! 👋🏼

🔍 Our main lines of research:
- Comparative Psychology and Animal Behavior 🦧
- Socio-cognitive Development and Communication 💬👩🏽‍🤝‍👨🏾
- Multimodal Language Development and Learning 🗣️🤚🏻
- Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠

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