Principal Investigator
Linda obtained her PhD in biology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Freie Universität Berlin. Currently, she holds a Post Doc position at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. Linda’s research interests is social cognition, with a focus on communication, in various species, including humans, dogs and non-human primates. Her research methods are based on a comparative approach using experimental and observational study designs.
About
MPI for Human Development Berlin
linda.ona@uni-leipzig.de
Project
Compositional structures in chimpanzee gestural communication
Selected Publications
- Oña LS, Sandler W, & Liebal K (2019). A stepping stone to compositionality in chimpanzee communication. PeerJ, 7, e7623.
- Amici F, Oña LS & Liebal K (2022). Compositionality in Primate Gestural Communication and Multicomponent Signal Displays. Int J Primatol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-022-00316-9.
- Bohn M, Liebal K, Oña LS, Tessler MH (2022). Great ape communication as contextual social inference: a computational modelling perspective. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 377: 20210096. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0096.
- Liebal K, Oña LS (2018) Mind the gap – intentional gestures and emotional facial expressions of nonhuman primates? Interaction Studies, 19:1/2, pp. 121–135.
- Liebal K, Oña LS (2018) Different Approaches to Meaning in Primate Gestural and Vocal Communication. Front. Psychol. 9:478. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00478.