MEGUERDITCHIAN Adrien

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Chargé.e de Recherche

Equipe

DePhy: Développement et Phylogénie

Axes de recherche dans une approche comparative entre primates :

Préférences manuelles (manipulation versus communication gestuelle) et latéralisation hémisphérique cérébrale (Imagerie cérébrale IRM, fNIRS)
Communication gestuelle et vocale & Cognition sociale : propriétés intentionnelles, référentielles et compréhension de signaux
Structure et coordination des unités comportementales (gestes, postures, regard et vocalisations) dans les interactions sociales

Je m’intéresse aux propriétés des modes de communication de nos cousins les primates, et des signaux gestuels en particulier, et leurs liens avec certaines propriétés du langage humain. Je m’interroge notamment sur les implications du geste dans l’évolution du langage, de sa spécialisation hémisphérique cérébrale et de la prédominance des droitiers.

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Sites d’étude

Station de Primatologie CNRS UAR846, France : Babouin olive (Papio anubis), Singe écureuil (Saimiri sciureus)
Centre IRM (Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, Marseille)
Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta, Etats-Unis : Chimpanzé en captivité (Pan troglodytes)
Fongoli, Site d’étude de Pr. Jill Pruetz, Sénégal : Chimpanzé en milieu naturel (Pan troglodytes)
Atlanta Zoo, Etats-Unis : Gorille (Gorilla gorilla)

NEWS 2023!

NEW TEAM MEMBERS

CONGRATULATIONS to Siham BOUZIANE! We are so happy and proud that Siham just got the PhD student's fellowship at the doctoral school ED 356 at Aix-Marseille Univ ! In codirection with me and Jenny COULL (LNC), she will develop her original project on "ontogeny and phylogeny on rhythm temporal predictions in human babies and baboons". After a master degree in Neurosciences in Toulouse and an research intership in our team, she became central to the Gestimage Project as a research assistant and was an fantastic lab manager of the ERC project by coordinating all its related behavioral and MRI works in our developing baboons !

CONGRATULATIONS to Katherine BRYANT! She just got the ILCB postdoc followship in our team to keep developing her research on comparative organization of language-homolog structural connectivity across primates! As an evolutionary neuroscientist, she's a brilliant worldwide expert of brain white matter organization and brain evolution in primates. After a PhD in Neuroscience at the Yerkes Primates Research Center (Emory University) in Atlanta, she worked at Oxford University and published the first comprehensive white matter atlas of the chimpanzee. She then joined our team after being hired with the ERC Gestimage to come work with us on language hemipsheric specialization of the brain and gesture production within a comparative approach.

ARTICLES TOUT CHAUDS !

Margiotoudi, K., Fagot, J., Meguerditchian, A., & Dautriche, I. (in press). Crossmodal pitch-luminance correspondence in human and non-human primates: a failed replication of Ludwig et al. (2011) in baboons (Papio papio). American Journal of Primatology. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/f7hds [PDF preprint]

Amiez, C., Verstraete, C., Sallet, J., Hadj-Bouziane, F., Ben Hamed, S., Meguerditchian, A., Procyk, E., Wilson, C. R. E, Petrides, M., Sherwood, C. C., & Hopkins, W. D., (2023). The unique anatomy of the prefrontal operculum in the human brain and its relevance to the emergence of speech. Communications Biology, 6, 693. [PDF Online access]

Amiez, C., Sallet, J., Giacometti, C., Verstraete, C., Gandaux, C., Morel-Latour, V., Meguerditchian, A., Hadj-Bouziane, F., Ben Hamed, S., Hopkins, W. D., Procyk, E., Wilson, C. R. E, & Petrides, M. (2023). A novel perspective on the evolution of the lateral frontal cortex in primates. Science Advances, 9, eadf9445. [PDF Online access]

Becker, Y., & Meguerditchian, A. (2023). Et si la clé des origines du langage se trouvait dans le cerveau des singes ? The Conversation, 199824. [Accès en ligne]

Meguerditchian, A. (2023). Aux frontières du langage dans la gestuelle des primates : De l’éthologie aux neurosciences comparatives. Revue Semestrielle de droit animalier, 2-2022, 269-284 [PDF]

Mulholland, M. M., Meguerditchian, A., & Hopkins, W. D. (2023). Age- and sex-related differences in baboon (Papio anubis) gray matter covariation. Neurobiology of Aging, 125, 41-48. [doi] [Res.Gate] [PDF preprint]

Hopkins, W. D., Coulon, O., Meguerditchian, A., Staes, N., Sherwood, C. C., Schapiro, S. J., Mangin, J.-F., & Bradley, B. (2023). Genetic determinants of individual variation in the superior temporal sulcus of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Cerebral Cortex, 33, 1925–1940. [doi] [Res.Gate] [PDF]

CURRENT TEAM MEMBERS

POST-DOC
Katherine BRYANT
(ERC & ILCB postdoc in co-direction with Olivier COULON)

PhD STUDENT
Siham BOUZIANE
(in co-direction with Jenny COULL)

PUBLICATIONS EN FRANçAIS

THÈSE

Meguerditchian, A. (octobre, 2009). Latéralité et communication gestuelle chez le babouin et le chimpanzé : à la recherche des précurseurs du langage. Thèse de doctorat de l’Université de Provence (mention Psychologie) sous la direction de Jacques VAUCLAIR. Aix-en-Provence, France. [PDF]

ARTICLES/CHAPITRES DE VULGARISATION

[79] Becker, Y., & Meguerditchian, A. (2023). Et si la clé des origines du langage se trouvait dans le cerveau des singes ? The Conversation, 199824. [Accès en ligne]

[78] Meguerditchian, A. (février 2022). La communication de nos cousins les primates, quelles similitudes avec le langage? In J.-F. Marmion (Ed.), Psychologie des animaux (pp. 177-189). Auxerre: Editions Sciences Humaines.

[77] Meguerditchian, A. (juin 2019). Au commencement était... le Geste. La Recherche - Les Essentielles "Le Génie de l'animal" 30, 23-27. [PDF]

[76] Meguerditchian, A. (nov. 2018). Communication, du primate à l'humain. Le Cercle Psy - Hors-Serie "La Psychologie des Animaux", 7, 54-57. [PDF]

[75] Meguerditchian, A. (juil. 2018). Les origines gestuelles du langage. La Recherche, 537, 74-78. [PDF]

[74] Meguerditchian, A. (2014). Des singes ingénieux. In O. Néron de Surgy & S. Tirard (Eds.), Les sciences des sixties (pp. 37-39). Paris : Éditions Belin. [PDF]

[73] Primat, N., & Meguerditchian, A. (2010). Le Chakra du babouin. In M. Borillo (Ed.), Dans l’atelier de l’art : Expériences Cognitives (pp. 221-242). Seyssel : Editions Champ Vallon.

[72] Meguerditchian, A., & Vauclair, J. (2006). Aux origines du langage. Cerveau & Psycho, 17, 84-87. [PDF]

DIRECTION NUMERO SPECIAL

[71] Meguerditchian, A. (Ed.) (2013). Dossier: Communication des primates : à la recherche des origines du langage. Revue Primatologie, 5. [Accès libre]

ARTICLES/CHAPITRES DE SYNTHESE DANS DES REVUES/OUVRAGES A COMITE DE LECTURE

[70] Meguerditchian, A. (2023). Aux frontières du langage dans la gestuelle des primates : De l’éthologie aux neurosciences comparatives. Revue Semestrielle de droit animalier, 2-2022, 269-284 [PDF]

[69] Mondada, L., & Meguerditchian, A. (2022). Ouvertures et salutations entre babouins : organisation de la séquence et orientation incarnée vers l’autre. Langage et Société, 176, 127-160. [doi] [Res.Gate] [PDF]

[68] Meguerditchian, A. (2019). L’origine gestuelle du langage : l’apport des recherches en primatologie. In C. Courtet, M. Besson, F. Lavocat, & A. Viala (Eds.), Le Jeu et la Règle: Rencontres Recherche et Création du Festival d'Avignon (pp. 13-25). Paris : CNRS éditions. [PDF]

[67] Meguerditchian, A. (2014). Pour une large approche comparative entre primates dans les recherches sur les origines de l’homme : l’exemple de la latéralité manuelle. Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d’anthropologie de Paris, 26, 166-171. [PDF]

[66] Meguerditchian, A. (2013). Introduction - Dossier: Communication des primates humains et non humains : à la recherche des origines du langage. Revue Primatologie, 5. [PDF]

[65] Meguerditchian, A., Cochet, H., Wallez, C. & Vauclair, J. (2013). Communication, latéralité et cerveau chez les primates humains et non humains : vers une origine gestuelle ou multimodale du langage ? Revue Primatologie, 5. [PDF]

PUBLICATIONS in ENGLISH

ORIGINAL RESEACH

2023 / preprint

[64] Margiotoudi, K., Fagot, J., Meguerditchian, A., & Dautriche, I. (2023 preprint). Crossmodal pitch-luminance correspondence in human and non-human primates: a failed replication of Ludwig et al. (2011) in baboons (Papio papio). doi: 10.31234/osf.io/f7hds [PDF preprint]
[63] Amiez, C., Verstraete, C., Sallet, J., Hadj-Bouziane, F., Ben Hamed, S., Meguerditchian, A., Procyk, E., Wilson, C. R. E, Petrides, M., Sherwood, C. C., & Hopkins, W. D., (2023). The unique anatomy of the prefrontal operculum in the human brain and its relevance to the emergence of speech. Communications Biology, 6, 693. [PDF Online access]
[62] Amiez, C., Sallet, J., Giacometti, C., Verstraete, C., Gandaux, C., Morel-Latour, V., Meguerditchian, A., Hadj-Bouziane, F., Ben Hamed, S., Hopkins, W. D., Procyk, E., Wilson, C. R. E, & Petrides, M. (2023). A novel perspective on the evolution of the lateral frontal cortex in primates. Science Advances, 9, eadf9445. [PDF Online access]
[61] Hopkins, W. D., Coulon, O., Meguerditchian, A., Staes, N., Sherwood, C. C., Schapiro, S. J., Mangin, J.-F., & Bradley, B. (2023). Genetic determinants of individual variation in the superior temporal sulcus of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Cerebral Cortex, 33, 1925–1940. [doi] [Res.Gate] [PDF]
[60] Mulholland, M. M., Meguerditchian, A., & Hopkins, W. D. (2023). Age- and sex-related differences in baboon (Papio anubis) gray matter covariation. Neurobiology of Aging, 125, 41-48. [doi] [Res.Gate] [PDF preprint]

2022

[59] Debracque, C., Gruber, T., Lacoste, R., Meguerditchian, A., & Grandjean, D. (2022). Cerebral Activity in Female Baboons (Papio anubis) During the Perception of Conspecific and Heterospecific Agonistic Vocalizations: a Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Study. Affective Science, 3, 783–791. [doi] [Res.Gate] [PDF]
[58] Mondada, L., & Meguerditchian, A. (2022). Sequence organization and embodied mutual orientations: openings of social interactions between baboons. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377, 20210101. [doi] [PDF]
[57] Becker, Y., Sein, J., Velly, L., Renaud, L., Lacoste, & Meguerditchian, A. (2022). Planum Temporale grey matter volume asymmetries in new-born monkeys (Papio anubis). Brain Structure and Function. 227, 463–468 [doi] [PDF preprint]
[56] Becker, Y., Claidière, N., Margiotoudi, K., Marie, D., Roth, M., Nazarian, B., Lacoste, R., Anton, J.-L., Coulon, O., & Meguerditchian, A. (2022). Broca's cerebral asymmetry reflects gestural communication's lateralisation in monkeys (Papio anubis), eLife, 11, e70521. [PDF]
[55] Boulinguez-Ambroise, G., Pouydebat, E., Disarbois, E., & Meguerditchian, A. (2022). Maternal cradling bias in baboons: The first environmental factor affecting early infant handedness development? Developmental Science, 25, e13179. [PDF preprint]

2021

[54] Westerhausen, R., & Meguerditchian, A. (2021). Corpus callosum morphology across the lifespan in baboons (Papio anubis): a cross-sectional study of relative mid-sagittal surface area and thickness. Neuroscience Research [PDF] [Free Access]
[53] Boulinguez-Ambroise, G., Herrel, A., Berillon, G., Cornette, R., Young, J. W., Meguerditchian, A., & Pouydebat, E. (2021). Increased performance in juvenile baboons is consistent with ontogenetic changes in morphology. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 175, 546-558. [DOI]
[52] Debracque, C., Gruber, T., Lacoste, R., Grandjean, D., & Meguerditchian, A. (2021). Validating the use of functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy in monkeys: The case of brain activation lateralization in Papio Anubis. Behavioural Brain research, 403, 113133. [PDF] [Free Acess]
[51] Becker, Y., Sein, J., Velly, L., Giacomino, L., Renaud, L., Lacoste, R., Anton, J.-L., Nazarian, B., Berne, C., & Meguerditchian, A. (2021). Early Left-Planum Temporale Asymmetry in Newborn Monkeys (Papio anubis): A Longitudinal Structural MRI Study at Two Stages of Development. NeuroImage, 227, 117575. [PDF] [Free Access]
[50] Meguerditchian, A., Marie, D., Margiotoudi, K., Roth, M., Nazarian, B., Anton, J.-L., & Claidière, N. (2021). Baboons (Papio anubis) living in larger social groups have bigger brains. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42(1), 30-34. [PDF]

2020

[49] Boulinguez-Ambroise, G., Pouydebat, E., Disarbois, E., & Meguerditchian, A. (2020). Human-like maternal left-cradling bias in monkeys is altered by social pressure. Scientific Reports, 10, 11036. [PDF][Free Access]
[48] Molesti, S., Meguerditchian, A., & Bourjade, M. (2020). Gestural communication in olive baboons (Papio anubis): repertoire and intentionality. Animal Cognition, 23, 19–40. [PDF]
[47] Pope, S. M., Fagot, J., Meguerditchian, A., Watzek, J., Lew-Levy, S., Autrey, M. M., & Hopkins, W. D. (2020). Optional-Switch Cognitive Flexibility in Primates: Chimpanzees’ (Pan troglodytes) Intermediate Susceptibility to Cognitive Set. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 134(1), 98-109. [PDF]

2019

[46] Amiez, C., Sallet, J., Hopkins, W. D., Meguerditchian, A., Hadj-Bouziane, F., BenHamed, S., Wilson, C. R. E., Procyk, E., & Petrides, M. (2019). Sulcal organization in the medial frontal cortex provides insights into primate brain evolution. Nature Communication, 10, 3437. [PDF]
[45] Margiotoudi, K., Marie, D., Claidière, N., Coulon, O., Roth, M., Nazarian, B., Lacoste, R., Hopkins, W. D., Molesti, S., Fresnais, P., Anton, J.-L. & Meguerditchian, A. (2019). Handedness in monkeys reflects hemispheric specialization within the central sulcus. An in vivo MRI study in right- versus left-handed baboons (Papio anubis). Cortex, 118, 203-211. [PDF]
[44] Bourjade, M., Gaunet, F., Maugard, A., & Meguerditchian, A. (2019). Manipulating social cues in baboon gesture learning: what does it tell us about the evolution of communication? Animal Cognition, 22(1), 113–125. [PDF]
[43] Pope, S. M., Fagot, J., Meguerditchian, A., Washburn, D. A., & Hopkins, W. D. (2019). Enhanced cognitive flexibility in the semi-nomadic Himba. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 50(1), 47-62. [PDF]

2018

[42] Marie, D., Roth, M., Lacoste, R., Nazarian, B., Bertello, A., Anton, J.-L., Hopkins, W. D., Margioutoudi, K., Love A. S., & Meguerditchian, A. (2018). Left Brain Asymmetry of the Planum Temporale in a non-Hominid primate: Redefining the origin of brain specialization for language. Cerebral Cortex, 28, 1808-1815. [PDF]

2017

[41] Hopkins, W. D., Coulon, O., Meguerditchian, A., Autrey, M., Davidek, K., Mahovetz, L., Pope, S. M., Latash, E. M., Mareno, M. C., & Schapiro, S. J. (2017). Genetic Factors and Oro-Facial Motor Learning Selectively Influence Variability in Central Sulcus Morphology in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Neuroscience, 37, 5475–5483. [PDF]
[40] Berthommier, F., Boë L.-J., Meguerditchian, A., Sawallis, T., & Captier, G. (2017). The Baboon Vocal Tract in Light of Exaptation: Larynx, Hyoid, and Tongue Anatomy. In L.-J. Boë, J. Fagot, P. Perrier, & J.-L. Schwartz (Eds., in press). Origins of Human Language: continuities and splits with nonhuman primates (pp.101-135). Oxford : Peter Lang. [PDF]
[39] Hopkins, W. D., Meguerditchian, A., Coulon, O., Misiura, M., Pope, S., Mareno, M. C., & Schapiro, S. J. (2017). Motor Skill for Tool-Use is Associated with Left Hemisphere Asymmetries in the Motor Hand Area of the Precentral Gyrus. Behavioural Brain Research, 318, 71-81. [PDF]

2016

[38] Molesti, S., Vauclair, J., & Meguerditchian, A. (2016). Hand preferences for unimanual and bimanual coordinated actions in olive baboons (Papio anubis) : consistency over time and across populations. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 130, 341-350. [PDF]
[37] Parron, C., & Meguerditchian, A. (2016). Gaze following in baboons (Papio anubis) : Juveniles adjust their gaze and body position to human’s head redirections. American Journal of Primatology, 78, 1265–1271. [PDF]
[36] Love, S., Marie, D., Roth, M., Lacoste, R., Nazarian, B., Bertello, A., Coulon, O., Anton, J.-L., & Meguerditchian, A. (2016). The average baboon brain : MRI templates and tissue probability maps from 89 individuals. NeuroImage, 132, 526-533. [Res.Gate] [PDF]

2015

[35] Meguerditchian, A., Phillips, K., Chapelain, A., Stoinski, T., Bania, A., Lonsdorf, E. V., Schaeffer, J., Russell, J., & Hopkins, W. D. (2015). Handedness for Unimanual Grasping in 564 Great Apes : The Effect on Grip Morphology and a Comparison with Hand Use for a Bimanual Coordinated Task. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1794. [Free Access] [PDF]
[34] Pope, S. M., Meguerditchian, A., Hopkins, W. D., & Fagot, J. (2015). Baboons (Papio papio), but not humans, break cognitive set in a visuomotor task. Animal Cognition, 18, 1339–1346. [PDF]
[33] Bourjade, M., Canteloup, C., Meguerditchian, A., Vauclair, J., & Gaunet, F. (2015). Training experience in gestures affects the display of social gaze in baboons’ communication with a human. Animal Cognition, 18, 239-250. [PDF]
[32] Hopkins, W. D., Schaeffer, J., Russell, J. L., Bogart, S. L., Meguerditchian, A., & Coulon, O. (2015). A Comparative Assessment of Handedness and its Potential Neuroanatomical Correlates in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and Bonobos (Pan paniscus). Behaviour, 152, 461 - 492. [PDF]

2014

[31] Hopkins, W. D., Meguerditchian, A., Coulon, O., Bogart, S., Mangin, J., Sherwood, C. C., Bennett, A. J., Pierre, P. J., Fears, S., Woods, R., Hof, P. R., & Vauclair, J. (2014). Evolution of the central sulcus shape and morphology in primates. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 84, 19-30. [PDF]
[30] Bourjade, M., Meguerditchian, A., Maille, A., Gaunet, F., & Vauclair, J. (2014). Olive baboons (Papio anubis) adjust their visual and auditory intentional gestures to the visual attention of others. Animal Behaviour, 87, 121-128. [PDF]

2013

[29] Potier, C., Meguerditchian, A., & Fagard, J. (2013). Handedness for bimanual coordinated actions in infants as a function of grip morphology. Laterality, 18, 576—593. [PDF]

2012

[28] Hopkins, W. D., Pika, S., Liebal, K., Bania, A., Meguerditchian, A., Gardner, M., & Schapiro, S. J. (2012). Handedness for manual gestures in great apes : A meta-analysis. In S. Pika, & K. Liebal (Eds.), Developments in Primate Gesture Research (pp. 93-112). Amsterdam : John Benjamins.
[27] Bogart, S. L., Pruetz, J. D., Ormiston, L. K., Russell, J. L., Meguerditchian, A., & Hopkins, W. D., (2012). Termite fishing laterality in the Fongoli savanna chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) : Further evidence of a left hand preference. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 149, 591–598. [PDF]
[26] Meguerditchian, A., Gardner, M. J., Schapiro, S. J., Hopkins, W. D. (2012). The sound of one hand clapping : handedness and perisylvian neural correlates of a communicative gesture in chimpanzees. Proceeding of the Royal Society Biology, 279, 1959-1966. [PDF]

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[25] Wallez, C., Schaeffer, J., Meguerditchian, A., Vauclair, J., Schapiro, S. J., & Hopkins, W. D. (2012). Contrast of hemispheric lateralization for oro-facial movements between learned attention-getting sounds and species-typical vocalizations in chimpanzees : extension in a second colony. Brain and Language, 123, 75–79. [PDF]
[24] Meguerditchian, A., Donnot, J., Molesti, S., Francioly, R., & Vauclair, J. (2012). Sex difference in squirrel monkeys handedness for unimanual and bimanual coordinated tasks. Animal Behaviour, 83, 635-643. [PDF]

2005-2011

[23] Meguerditchian, A., Molesti, S., & Vauclair, J. (2011). Right-handedness predominance in 162 baboons for gestural communication : Consistency across time and groups. Behavioral Neuroscience, 125, 653-660. [PDF]