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Jacques Prieur is a post-doctoral researcher and Project Director at the Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, within the Comparative Developmental Psychology group led by Prof. Dr. Katja Liebal. His research focuses on great apes’ multimodal communication and laterality, particularly exploring mechanisms of gesture acquisition and development in gorillas. He investigates the Social Negotiation hypothesis through comparative studies of primate communication to understand human language origins.
Key research interests include manual laterality in non-human primates, the evolutionary roots of human handedness and language, and the interplay between social interaction and gestural meaning construction. His work spans captive chimpanzees and gorillas, analyzing factors influencing gestural laterality and communication dynamics.
Prieur’s publications (2012–2019) address topics like primate gesture laterality, human handedness variability, and cross-species communication patterns. He actively supervises thesis and internship projects related to these themes. His 2015 doctoral thesis at University of Rennes 1, France, explored intraspecific gestural laterality in chimpanzees and gorillas.
