Francys Subiaul
Francys Subiaul
Cognitive Scientist and Associate Professor, George Washington University
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Cognitive Scientist and Associate Professor, George Washington University
Francys Subiaul is a Cognitive Scientist with a background in experimental psychology and biological anthropology. His research explores the nature and origins of social intelligence, specifically, social-cultural learning. The ability to rapidly, efficiently, and accurately copy others’ knowledge and responses underlies many of our species’ distinctive qualities including speech and writing as well as the use of complex tools. Dr. Subiaul and his colleagues seek to better understand the psychological features underlying our species' distinct imitative abilities as well as characterize its development.
The Subiaul Social Cognition Lab focuses on understanding the development and origins of social learning including characterizing its underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms and relationship to other forms of social and asocial learning.
SPHR 1071: Foundations of Human Communication
SPHR 2133: Autism
SPHR 6291: Special Topics: Autism
SPHR 3199: Mind, Brain and Evolution I
SPHR 3199: Mind, Brain and Evolution II
Rutherford MD, Subiaul F (2016). Children with Autism have an Exceptional Explanatory Drive. Autism. Aug;20(6):744-53, doi: 10.1177/1362361315605973
Subiaul, F., °Winters, K., °Krumpak, K., Core, C. (2016). Vocal Overimitation in Preschool Age Children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Jan; 141:145-60. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2015.08.010. Epub 2015 Sep 26.
Subiaul, F., Zimmermann, L., Renner, E., Schilder, B., Barr, R (In Press). Elemental Imitation Mechanisms in Preschool Age Children. Journal of Cognition & Development.
Subiaul, F., Krajkowski, E., Price, E. E., Etz, A. (2015). Imitation by combination: Preschool age children evidence summative imitation in a novel problem-solving task. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1410.doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01410.
Subiaul, F., Winters, K., Krumpak, K., Core, C. (2015). Vocal Overimitation in Preschool Age Children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
Renner, E., Price, E., Subiaul, F. (2015). Sequential Recall of Lists with Meaningful and Meaningless Content Cues by Orangutans and Human Children. Animal Cognition.
Subiaul, F., Patterson, E. M., Barr, R. (2015). The Cognitive Structure of Goal Emulation in Preschool Age Children: Recruitment of multiple learning processes. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
Subiaul, F., Patterson, E., Renner, E., Schilder, B., Barr, R. (2014). Becoming a High Fidelity—Super—Imitator: The role of social and asocial learning in imitation development. Developmental Science. Dec 28. doi: 10.1111/desc.12276. [Epub ahead of print]
Subiaul, F. & Schilder, B. (2014). Working Memory Constraints on Imitation and Emulation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 128, 190-200. DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2014.07.005.
Subiaul, F., Vonk, J., & Rutherford, M.D. (in Press). The Ghost in the Computer: How Agency-Attribution Mediates Cognitive Imitation in a Ghost Control. PLOS ONE.
Okamoto-Barth, S., Moore, C., Barth, J., Subiaul, F., & Povinelli, D. (2011). Carry-over effect of joint attention to repeated events in chimpanzees and young children. Developmental Sciences.
Subiaul, F. (2010). Dissecting the Imitation Faculty: The Multiple Imitation Mechanisms Hypothesis. Behavioral Processes, 83(2): 222-34.
Vonk. J., & Subiaul, F. (2009). Do chimpanzees know what others can and cannot do? Animal Cognition, 12(2): 267-86 [E-Pub Sept. 3, 2008]
Subiaul, F. (in Press). Dissecting the Imitation Faculty: The Multiple Imitation Mechanisms Hypothesis. Behavioral Processes. Invited Review.
Subiaul, F., Vonk, J., Okamoto-Barth, S. (2008). Chimpanzees Learn the Reputation of Strangers by Observation. Animal Cognition, 11(4): 611-23 [E-Pub Mar. 21, 2008]
Sherwood, C., Subiaul, F., & Zawidzki, T. (2008). A Natural History of the Human Mind, Journal of Anatomy, 212(4): 426-54.