Christoph Völter

Huber, L; Putnik, M; Szewczak, V; Van der Wolf, P; Lonardo, L; Völter, C (2024): Testing the concept of seeing in dogs. -31st Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition (CO3); APR 10-14, 2024; New Mexiko, United States.

Völter, C; Gerwisch, K; Berg, P; Viranyi, Z; Huber, L (2024): Using mobile eye tracking to study dogs’ understanding of human referential communication. -31st Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition (CO3); APR 10-14, 2024; New Mexiko, United States.

Engelmann, J. M., Haux, L. M., Völter, C. J., Schleihauf, H., Call, J., Rakoczy, H., & Herrmann, E. (2023). Do chimpanzees reason logically? Child Development,94(5), 1102-1116.
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Lonardo, L; Völter, CJ; Lamm, C; Huber, L (2023): Dogs Rely On Visual Cues Rather Than On Effector-Specific Movement Representations to Predict Human Action Targets. Open Mind (Camb). 2023; 7:588-607
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Völter, CJ; Lonardo, L; Steinmann, MGGM; Ramos, CF; Gerwisch, K; Schranz, MT; Dobernig, I; Huber, L (2023): Unwilling or unable? Using three-dimensional tracking to evaluate dogs' reactions to differing human intentions. Proc Biol Sci. 2023; 290(1991):20221621
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Völter, CJ; Starić, D; Huber, L (2023): Using machine learning to track dogs’ exploratory behaviour in the presence and absence of their caregiver. Anim Behav. 2023; 197:97-111
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Völter, CJ; Tomašić, A; Nipperdey, L; Huber, L (2023): Dogs' expectations about occlusion events: from expectancy violation to exploration. Proc Biol Sci. 2023; 290(2003):20230696
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Felsche, E., Stevens, P., Völter, C. J., Buchsbaum, D., & Seed, A. M. (2023). Evidence for abstract representations in children but not capuchin monkeys. Cognitive Psychology,140: 101530.
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Engelmann, J. M., Völter, C. J., Goddu, M. K., Call, J., Rakoczy, H., & Herrmann, E. (2023). Chimpanzees prepare for alternative possible outcomes. Biology Letters,19(6): 20230179.
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Huber, L., Lonardo, L., & Völter, C. J. (2023). Eye Tracking in Dogs: Achievements and Challenges. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews,18, 33-58.
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Reindl, E., Völter, C. J., Civelek, Z., Duncan, L., Lugosi, Z., Felsche, E., Herrmann, E., Call, J., & Seed, A. M. (2023). The shifting shelf task: A new, non-verbal measure for attentional set shifting. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences,290(1991).
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Völter, C. J., Tinklenberg, B., Call, J., & Seed, A. M. (2022). Inhibitory control and cue relevance modulate chimpanzees’ (Pan troglodytes) performance in a spatial foraging task. Journal of Comparative Psychology,136(2), 105-120.
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Marno, H., Völter, C. J., Tinklenberg, B., Sperber, D., & Call, J. (2022). Learning from communication versus observation in great apes. Scientific Reports,12: 2917.
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Karl, S; Anderle, K; Völter, CJ; Virányi, Z (2022): Pet dogs' Behavioural Reaction to Their Caregiver's Interactions with a Third Party: Join in or Interrupt? Animals (Basel). 2022; 12(12):1574
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Reindl, E; Völter, CJ; Campbell-May, J; Call, J; Seed, AM (2022): Exploring the development of attentional set shifting in young children with a novel Intradimensional/Extradimensional shift task. J Exp Child Psychol. 2022; 221:105428
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Völter, CJ; Huber, L (2022): Pupil size changes reveal dogs’ sensitivity to motion cues. iScience. 2022; 25(9):104801
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Völter, CJ; Reindl, E; Felsche, E; Civelek, Z; Whalen, A; Lugosi, Z; Duncan, L; Herrmann, E; Call, J; Seed, AM (2022): The structure of executive functions in preschool children and chimpanzees. Sci Rep. 2022; 12(1):6456
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Huber, L; Lonardo, L; Völter, C; Lamm, C (2022): Dogs understand the false beliefs of humans, but not like humans. -29th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition (CO3); APR 6-9, 2022; Online, United States.
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Völter, C; Huber, L (2022): Eye-tracking with dogs: Achievements and challenges. -Vision Research Conference (VRC) 2022; JUN 6-9, 2022; Toronto, Canada.
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Engelmann, J. M., Völter, C. J., O’Madagain, C., Proft, M., Haun, D. B. M., Rakoczy, H., & Herrmann, E. (2021). Chimpanzees consider alternative possibilities. Current Biology,31(20), R1377-R1378.
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Ebel, S. J., Völter, C. J., & Call, J. (2021). Prior experience mediates the usage of food items as tools in great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, and Pongo abelii). Journal of Comparative Psychology,135(1), 64-73.
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Civelek, Z; Völter, CJ; Seed, AM (2021): What happened? Do preschool children and capuchin monkeys spontaneously use visual traces to locate a reward? Proc Biol Sci. 2021; 288(1956):20211101
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Colbourne, JAD; Auersperg, AMI; Lambert, ML; Huber, L; Völter, CJ (2021): Extending the Reach of Tooling Theory: A Neurocognitive and Phylogenetic Perspective. Top Cogn Sci. 2021; 13(4):548-572
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Jordan, EJ; Völter, CJ; Seed, AM (2021): Do capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella) use exploration to form intuitions about physical properties? Cogn Neuropsychol. 2021 38 (7-8) 531-543.
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Lonardo, L; Völter, CJ; Lamm, C; Huber, L (2021): Dogs follow human misleading suggestions more often when the informant has a false belief. Proc Biol Sci. 2021; 288(1955):20210906
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Reindl, E; Parkash, D; Völter, CJ; Seed, AM (2021): Thinking inside the box: Mental manipulation of working memory contents in 3- to 7-year-old children. Cogn Dev. 2021; 59:None
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Völter, CJ; Huber, L (2021): Dogs' looking times and pupil dilation response reveal expectations about contact causality. Biol Lett. 2021; 17(12):20210465
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Colbourne, JAD; Auersperg, AMI; Lambert, ML; Huber, L; Völter, CJ (2021): Extending the Reach of Tooling Theory -28th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition (CO3), 7.–10.4.2021; APR 7-10, 2021; Online, United States.

Huber, L; Karl, S; Völter, C; Boch, M; Sladky, R;Wagner, IC; Lamm, C (2021): How pet dogs perceive human emotions: multi-method evidence from fMRI, eye-tracking and behavioral research. -28th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition (CO3); APR 7-10,2021; Online, United States.

Völter, C; Huber, L (2021): Expectancy violations about physical properties of animated objects in dogs. -43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society; JUL 26-29, 2021; Vienna, Austria.

Völter, CJ; Huber, L (2021): Using pupillometry to study expectancy violations about physical properties of animated objects in dogs. -Canine Science Forum; July 6-9, 2021; Lisbon, Portugal.

Bohn, M., Call, J., & Völter, C. J. (2020). Evolutionary precursors of negation in non-human reasoning. In V. Déprez, & M. Espinal ( Eds. ), The Oxford Handbook of Negation (pp. 577-588). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Karl, S; Boch, M; Zamansky, A; van der Linden, D; Wagner, IC; Völter, CJ; Lamm, C; Huber, L (2020): Exploring the dog-human relationship by combining fMRI, eye-tracking and behavioural measures. Sci Rep. 2020; 10(1):22273
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Völter, CJ; Karl, S; Huber, L (2020): Dogs accurately track a moving object on a screen and anticipate its destination. Sci Rep. 2020; 10(1):19832 Völter, CJ; Lambert, ML; Huber, L (2020): Do nonhumans seek explanations? Anim Behav Cogn. 2020; 7(3):445-451
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ManyPrimates, Altschul, D. M., Beran, M. J., Bohn, M., Call, J., DeTroy, S., Duguid, S. J., Egelkamp, C. L., Fichtel, C., Fischer, J., Flessert, M., Hanus, D., Haun, D. B. M., Haux, L. M., Hernandez-Aguilar, R. A., Herrmann, E., Hopper, L. M., Joly, M., Kano, F., Keupp, S., Melis, A. P., Motes Rodrigo, A., Ross, S. R., Sánchez Amaro, A., Sato, Y., Schmitt, V., Schweinfurth, M. K., Seed, A. M., Taylor, D., Völter, C. J., Warren, E., & Watzek, J. (2019). Establishing an infrastructure for collaboration in primate cognition research. PLoS One,14(10): e0223675.
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Völter, C. J., Mundry, R., Call, J., & Seed, A. M. (2019). Chimpanzees flexibly update working memory contents and show susceptibility to distraction in the self-ordered search task. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences,286(1907): 20190715.
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Bueno-Guerra, N., Völter, C. J., de las Heras, Á., Colell, M., & Call, J. (2019). Bargaining in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): The effect of cost, amount of gift, reciprocity, and communication. Journal of Comparative Psychology,133(4), 542-550.
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ManyPrimates, Altschul, D. M., Beran, M. J., Bohn, M., Caspar, K. R., Fichtel, C., Försterling, M., Grebe, N. M., Hernandez-Aguilar, R. A., Kwok, S. C., LLorente, M., Motes Rodrigo, A., Proctor, D., Sánchez Amaro, A., Simpson, E. A., Szabelska, A., Taylor, D., van der Mescht, J., Völter, C. J., & Watzek, J. (2019). Collaborative open science as a way to reproducibility and new insights in primate cognition research. Japanese Psychological Review,62(103), 205-220.
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Tennie, C., Völter, C. J., Vonau, V., Hanus, D., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2019). Chimpanzees use observed temporal directionality to learn novel causal relations. Primates,60, 517-524.
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Civelek, Z; Völter, C; Seed, A (2019): Do preschoolers and capuchin monkeys infer causes or learn associations? 53--ASAB Konstanz Summer Conference; AUG 26-28, 2019; Konstanz, Germany.

Felsche, E; Stevens, P; Völter, CJ; Buchsbaum, D; Seed, A (2019): Exploring the use of overhypotheses by children and capuchin monkeys. 1731-1737.-The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society; July 24-27, 2019; Montreal, Canada.

Völter, C. J., & Call, J. (2018). Intuitive optics: What great apes infer from mirrors and shadows. Animal Cognition,21(4), 493-512.
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Völter, CJ; Tinklenberg, B; Call, J; Seed, AM (2018): Comparative psychometrics: establishing what differs is central to understanding what evolves. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2018; 373(1756)
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Schmelz, M., Duguid, S., Bohn, M., & Völter, C. J. (2017). Cooperative problem solving in giant otters (Pteronura brasiliensis) and Asian small-clawed otters (Aonyx cinerea). Animal Cognition,20(6), 1107-1114.
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Völter, C. J., Rossano, F., & Call, J. (2017). Social manipulation in nonhuman primates: Cognitive and motivational determinants. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews,82, 76-94.
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Bohn, M., Allritz, M., Call, J., & Völter, C. J. (2017). Information seeking about tool properties in great apes. Scientific Reports,7: 10923.
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Völter, C. J., & Call, J. (2017). Causal and inferential reasoning in animals. In G. M. Burghardt, I. M. Pepperberg, C. T. Snowdon, & T. Zentall ( Eds. ), APA handbook of comparative psychology Vol 2: Perception, learning, and cognition (pp. 643-671). US: American Psychological Association.
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Völter, C. J., & Call, J. (2017). Cognition. In A. Fuentes ( Ed. ), International Encyclopedia of Primatology (pp. 196-203). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
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Völter, C. J., Sentís, I., & Call, J. (2016). Great apes and children infer causal relations from patterns of variation and covariation. Cognition,155, 30-43.
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Völter, C. J., Rossano, F., & Call, J. (2015). From exploitation to cooperation: Social tool use in orang-utan mother–offspring dyads. Animal Behaviour,100, 126-134.
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Völter, C. J., & Call, J. (2014). The cognitive underpinnings of flexible tool use in great apes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition,40(3), 287-302.
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Völter, C. J., & Call, J. (2014). Great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo abelii) follow visual trails to locate hidden food. Journal of Comparative Psychology,128(2), 199-208.
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Völter, C. J., & Call, J. (2014). Younger apes and human children plan their moves in a maze task. Cognition,130(2), 186-203.
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Völter, C. (2014). Problem solving in great apes: On the effect of visual feedback, causal inferences, and planning. PhD Thesis, Bielefeld Univ., Bielefeld.
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Manrique, H. M., Völter, C. J., & Call, J. (2013). Repeated innovation in great apes. Animal Behaviour,85(1), 195-202.
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Völter, C., & Call, J. (2012). Problem solving in great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, and Pongo abelii): the effect of visual feedback. Animal Cognition,15(5), 923-936.
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