Neuroethology of Communication Lab
We are a comparative cognitive neuroscience and behavioural research lab at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Research goals
Our research group strives to better understand how biology and culture shaped the evolution of communication and language. In particular, we aim at distinguishing common mammalian traits and human-specific traits in the processing of social-communicative, vocal and linguistic signals.
Ethology
We have been conducting comparative behavioral studies since 1994 in the framework of the Family Dog Project. We investigate the behavior and social communicative skills of companion animals.
Cognitive neuroscience
Out team is among the very few worldwide capable of conducting fMRI and EEG studies on awake, unrestrained, cooperating animals
Bioacoustics
We study the acoustic structure of companion animal and their communicative role between conspecific and heterospecific interaction.
Psycholingustics
We use psycholinguistic tools developed to study language acquisition in infants to identify speech processing mechanisms that are shared across mammalian species.
The team
We are an international, diverse, open and inclusive group.
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