Julia Fischer

Professor, German Primate Center

1996 Dr. rer. nat. (Biology), Free University Berlin
1996-1997 Postdoctoral Fellow at NIH (Laboratory of John Newman) and Harvard University (Laboratory of Marc D. Hauser)
1998-2000 Postdoctoral Fellow (Laboratory Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney, University of Pennsylvania), 18-months field research in Botswana
2001-2004 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
2004 Habilitation Leipzig University
2004- Joint appointment as head of research group “Cognitive Ethology” at the German Primate Center and Professor for Ethology and Ecology, University of Göttingen.

Major Research Interests:

Julia Fischer

Cognitive and communicative behaviour of primates and other social mammals with special regard to the ontogenetic and phylogenetic development; Socio-ecology of communication; Mechanisms of sound production and perception; Evolution of speech.

Address:
German Primate Center
Kellnerweg 4

37077 Göttingen
Germany

phone: +49-551-38 51 375
fax: +49-551-38 51 288
e-mail:

Further Information:
http://www.cog-ethol.de/

Selected Recent Publications:

Fischer, J., Cheney , D. L. & Seyfarth, R. M. (2000). Development of infant baboons' responses to graded bark variants. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 267, 2317-2321.

Kaminski, J., Call, J. & Fischer, J.: (2004) Word Learning in a domestic dog: Evidence for 'fast mapping'”. Science 304: 1682-1683.

Fischer, J. (2004). Emergence of individual recognition in young macaques. Animal Behaviour 67, 655-661.

Teufel, C., Hammerschmidt, K. & Fischer, J. (2007). Lack of orienting asymmetries in Barbary macaques: implications for studies of hemispheric specialisations in auditory processing. Animal Behaviour 73(2), 249-255.

Fischer, J. in press. Transmission of acquired information in nonhuman primates. In: Encyclopedia of Learning and Memory (Ed. Sweatt, D., Menzel, R. , Eichenbaum, H. Roediger, H.). Elsevier, Oxford.