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Erica A. Cartmill

Psychology · Indiana University

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Mid career · publishing since 2003Rising activity
Primate Behavior and EcologyAnimal Vocal Communication and BehaviorHearing Impairment and CommunicationChild and Animal Learning DevelopmentLanguage, Metaphor, and Cognition

Publications

63

Citations

2,045

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

24

Publishing since 2003

Research summary
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Erica A. Cartmill studies how communication and social behavior evolve, comparing gestures, vocalizations, and playful interactions in great apes and other primates with human language and gesture. Her work explores questions such as how apes tease and play, how emotions like joy influence learning, and how gestures contribute to the evolution of language and human communication.

Primate communication and gestureEvolution of languagePlay, teasing, and emotion in animalsHuman gesture and cognitionComparative animal cognition

Publication activity has been fairly steady over the last decade, averaging around three papers per year with a small dip in 2021 and a slight uptick in the most recent years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

Funding
Public award records

Current awards run through October 2026 — about under a year of funding on record from today. Awards are often renewed, so this is what is currently public, not a forecast.

  • ActiveNSF 2506321through Oct 2026 · $250k awarded

    AccelNet-Design: Accelerating Research Collaboration on Artificial and Natural Intelligences (ARCANI)

1 earlier award
  • NSF 2302028Jul 2023 – Mar 2025 · $250k awarded

    AccelNet-Design: Accelerating Research Collaboration on Artificial and Natural Intelligences (ARCANI)

Matched to public NIH RePORTER and NSF records by name and institution. Awards from other agencies are not shown, and a match is not always found — this list may be incomplete.

In context
Among 494 mid career Psychology PIs within our index
Citations: 2,045cohort median 560
h-index: 17cohort median 11
Publications / year (recent): 4.2cohort median 3

Typically publishes in teams of ~4 · 45% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 23 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 4.2/year recently
2017: 4 publications172018: 2 publications182019: 5 publications192020: 3 publications20212022: 2 publications222023: 3 publications232024: 3 publications242025: 3 publications252026: 10 publications1026
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Figshare×5
  • Animal Cognition×4
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)×4
  • Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang12)×2
  • Cognition×1
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Last updated Sep 1, 2026.

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