Publications

Manuscripts in Revision / Preparation

Lew-Levy, S.*, Pope, S. M.*, Haun, D., Kline, M. A., Broesch. Out of the empirical box: A mixed-methods study of tool innovation among Congolese BaYaka forager and Bondongo fisher-farmer children (Under Review) *Co-first authors
Pope, S. M. How dynamic environments shape cognitive flexibility: the Constrained Flexibility Framework. (Invited book chapter – In Preparation)
Pope, S. M., Washburn, D. A. & Hopkins, W. D. Breaking cognitive set: seeing an alternative strategy is not the same as looking for one. (In Preparation)

Lew-Levy, S & Milks, A & Lavi, N & Pope, S. M. & Friesem, D. (2020). Where innovations flourish: An ethnographic and archaeological overview of hunter-gatherer learning contexts. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 1-61.
Pope, S. M., Meguerditchian, A., Fagot, J. & Hopkins, W. D. (2020) Optional-switch cognitive flexibility in primates: Chimpanzees’ (Pan troglodytes) intermediate susceptibility to cognitive set. Journal of Comparative Psychology, doi: 10.1037/com0000194

Watzek, J., Pope, S. M., Brosnan, S. F. (2019) Capuchin and rhesus monkeys but not humans show cognitive flexibility in an optional-switch task. Scientific Reports, 9(1) 13195.
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.

Pope, S. M. (2018). Differences in Cognitive Flexibility Within the Primate Lineage and Across Human Cultures: When Learned Strategies Block Better Alternatives. (Doctoral Dissertation). Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.

Pope, S. M., Taglialatela, J.P., Hopkins, W. D. (2017) Changes in mirror region connectivity following Do-As-I-Do training in chimpanzees. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 30(3), 1-11.
Hopkins, W. D., Coulon, O., Meguerditchian, A., Autrey, M., Davidek, K., Mahovetz, L., Pope, S. 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, 2641-16.

Hopkins, W.D., Meguerditchian, A., Coulon, O., Misiura, M., Pope, S. M., Mareno, M.C., Schapiro, S.J. (2016) Motor skill for tool-use is associated with asymmetries in Broca’s Area and the Motor Hand Area of the Precentral Gyrus in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Behavioural brain research, 318, 71-81.

Pope, S. M., Russell, J. L., & Hopkins, W. D. (2015). The association between imitation recognition and socio-communicative competencies in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Frontiers in Psychology, 6.
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, 1-8.
Taglialatela, J.P., Russell, J., Pope, S. M., Morton, T., Bogart, S., Reamer, L.A., Schapiro, S.J., Hopkins, W.D. (2015). Multimodal Communication in Chimpanzees. American Journal of Primatology, 77(11).
Hopkins, W.D., Misiura, Pope, S. M., Latash, E.M. (2015). Behavioral and brain asymmetries in primates: A preliminary evaluation of two evolutionary hypotheses. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1359 (1)