Dr. Federica Amici

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsEvolution, Anthropology,Developmental and Educational Psychology
KeywordsComparative cognition, Primate behaviour, Inhibition, Reciprocation

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityLeipzig
InstitutionUniversität Leipzig
InstituteInstitut für Biologie

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Josep CallDepartment of Comparative and Developmental Psychology, Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2011

Program(s)

2010Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2014Federica Amici: How New World Monkeys See the Social World . Monkeys: Brain Ontogeny, Social and Hormonal Mechanisms and Zoonotic Diseases. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2014.
2014Federica Amici, Juliane Braeuer: Monkey Physical Cognition: a Comparative Review. Monkeys: Brain Ontogeny, Social and Hormonal Mechanisms and Zoonotic Diseases.. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2014.
2014Federica Amici, Filippo Aureli, Josep Call: Response facilitation in the four great apes: is there a role for empathy?. In: Primates, 2014, 113-118
2012Federica Amici, Bradley Barney, Valen E. Johnson, Josep Call, Filippo Aureli: A Modular Mind? A Test Using Individual Data from Seven Primate Species. In: PLOS One, 2012, e51918
2012Federica Amici, Josep Call, Filippo Aureli: Aversion to violation of expectations of food distribution: the role of social tolerance and relative dominance in seven primate species. In: Behaviour, 2012, 345-368
2012Anna Albiach-Serrano, Juliane Braeuer, Trix Cacchione, Nele Zickert, Federica Amici: The effect of domestication and ontogeny in swine cognition (Sus scrofa scrofa and S. s. domestica). In: Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 2012, 25-35