Erica A. Cartmill

Santa Fe Institute — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

17h-index2.0kcitations54works2.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Primate Behavior and Ecology(20), Hearing Impairment and Communication(16), Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior(16), Child and Animal Learning Development(13), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition(9)

Publications54 total

Does playful teasing help great apes learn about social relationships?
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2026· 1 citedOpen Access
Bonobos tend to behave optimistically after hearing laughter
Scientific Reports·2025Open Access
Re-imagining great ape gesture (coding)
Oxford University Press eBooks·2025
Gestural Iconicity and Alignment as Steps in the Evolution of Language
Topics in Cognitive Science·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Embodying Similarity and Difference: The Effect of Listing and Contrasting Gestures During U.S. Political Speech
Cognitive Science·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Spontaneous playful teasing in four great ape species
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
Data_Laumer et al. from Spontaneous playful teasing in four great ape species
Figshare·2024Open Access
Overcoming bias in the comparison of human language and animal communication
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2023· 14 citedOpen Access
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· 17 citedOpen Access
Using the Senses in Animal Communication
2023· 1 cited
A robust tool kit: First report of tool use in captive crested capuchin monkeys (<i>Sapajus robustus</i>)
American Journal of Primatology·2022· 9 cited
Gesture
Annual Review of Anthropology·2022· 3 cited
Just kidding: the evolutionary roots of playful teasing
Biology Letters·2020· 32 citedOpen Access
Quality of Early Parent Input Predicts Child Vocabulary 3 Years Later
2020· 11 cited
THE BODY OF HIERARCHY: HAND GESTURES ON CLASSIC MAYA CERAMICS AND THEIR SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE
Ancient Mesoamerica·2020· 6 citedOpen Access
The gaits of marsupials and the evolution of diagonal‐sequence walking in primates
American Journal of Physical Anthropology·2019· 34 citedOpen Access
Gesturing towards the future: cognition, big data, and the future of comparative gesture research
Animal Cognition·2019· 10 cited
Developmental perspectives on primate gesture: 100 years in the making
Animal Cognition·2019· 12 citedOpen Access
Exploring Sources of Variation in Inter‐observer Reliability Scoring of Facial Expressions Using the ChimpFACS
The FASEB Journal·2019· 3 cited
Captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) demonstrate contagion in spontaneous scratching behavior
The 88th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Cleveland, Ohio·2019
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Frequent Co-authors

Susan Goldin‐Meadow(11), Richard W. Byrne(7), Catherine Hobaiter(5), Sasha L. Winkler(5), Heidi Lyn(4), Benjamin F. Armstrong(3), Lila R. Gleitman(3), John C. Trueswell(3), Émilie Genty(3), Kirsty E. Graham(3), I. B. Laumer(3), Tamara Nicol Medina(2), J. Tanner(2), Lilia Rissman(2), Thomas C. Scott‐Phillips(2), Mónica Tamariz(2), James R. Hurford(2), Federico Rossano(2), Seán G. Roberts(2), Hannah Cornish(2)