Erica A. Cartmill

Psychology · Indiana University

Primate Behavior and Ecology Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior Hearing Impairment and Communication Child and Animal Learning Development Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Publications

Citations

2,020

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 2003

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.0/year recently

Recent publications

Does playful teasing help great apes learn about social relationships?
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2026
Play vocalizations induce affective bias in reward learning and memory in orangutans
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2026
Gestural Iconicity and Alignment as Steps in the Evolution of Language
Topics in Cognitive Science · 2025
Bonobos tend to behave optimistically after hearing laughter
Scientific Reports · 2025
Re-imagining great ape gesture (coding)
Oxford University Press eBooks · 2025
Spontaneous playful teasing in four great ape species
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2024
Embodying Similarity and Difference: The Effect of Listing and Contrasting Gestures During U.S. Political Speech
Cognitive Science · 2024
Data_Laumer et al. from Spontaneous playful teasing in four great ape species
Figshare · 2024
Joyful by nature: approaches to investigate the evolution and function of joy in non‐human animals
Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2023
Overcoming bias in the comparison of human language and animal communication
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2023
Using the Senses in Animal Communication
2023
Gesture
Annual Review of Anthropology · 2022
A robust tool kit: First report of tool use in captive crested capuchin monkeys (<i>Sapajus robustus</i>)
American Journal of Primatology · 2022
Just kidding: the evolutionary roots of playful teasing
Biology Letters · 2020
Quality of Early Parent Input Predicts Child Vocabulary 3 Years Later
2020

Publishes in

Animal Cognition×4
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang12)×2
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)×2
Cognition×1
Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society×1

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Last updated Jul 9, 2026.

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