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Roger Fouts

Psychology

#789

World Rank

#1002

Historical Rank

#494

USA Rank

Cognitive Science

#262

World Rank

#263

Historical Rank

#59

USA Rank

Cognitive Psychology

#648

World Rank

#681

Historical Rank

#164

USA Rank

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Psychology

Roger Fouts's Degrees

PhD Psychology University of Nevada, Reno
Masters Psychology San Francisco State University
Bachelors Psychology California State University, Fresno

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According to Wikipedia, Roger S. Fouts is a retired American primate researcher. He was co-founder and co-director of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute in Washington, and a professor of psychology at the Central Washington University. He is best known for his role in teaching Washoe the chimpanzee to communicate using a set of signs taken from American sign language.

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Roger Fouts's Published Works

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Acquisition and Testing of Gestural Signs in Four Young Chimpanzees (1973) (154)
Acquisition of American Sign Language by a noncommunicating autistic child (1976) (119)
Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) pointing: hand shapes, accuracy, and the role of eye gaze. (1997) (109)
8. The Infant Loulis Learns Signs from Cross-Fostered Chimpanzees (1989) (84)
Use of guidance in teaching sign language to a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). (1972) (77)
Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees (1998) (71)
Cultural Transmission of a Human Language in a Chimpanzee Mother-Infant Relationship (1982) (69)
Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me about Who We Are (1997) (66)
Sign Language Conversational Interaction Between Chimpanzees (2013) (52)
Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) tool use in the Ngotto Forest, Central African Republic (2005) (42)
Language: Origins, definitions and chimpanzees (1974) (41)
Transfer of signed responses in American Sign Language from vocal English stimuli to physical object stimuli by a chimpanzee (Pan) (1976) (35)
Approach and escape to conspecific odors of reward and nonreward in rats (1973) (34)
Capacities for Language in Great Apes (1975) (32)
Effect of Enclosure Size and Complexity on the Behaviors of Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) (2001) (32)
Sympathetic mouth movements accompanying fine motor movements in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) with implications toward the evolution of language (2002) (29)
Chimpanzees' use of sign language (1993) (27)
Sign Language and Language Acquisition in Man and Ape (1978) (27)
Imaginary Play in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) (1993) (24)
Man-Chimpanzee Communication (1980) (14)
Conjugate lateral eye movements in Pan troglodytes (1978) (13)
Chimpanzee Language and Elephant Tails: A Theoretical Synthesis (1983) (13)
Functional analysis of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) private signing (1994) (12)
Chimpanzee sign language and Darwinian continuity: Evidence for a neurological continuity for language (2001) (11)
Language, Signs, and Cognition in the Chimpanzee (2013) (11)
Chapter 7 – CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF LEARNED LANGUAGE IN CHIMPANZEES1 (1976) (10)
Chimpanzee to chimpanzee American Sign Language (1998) (9)
A Survey of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) and Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the Selectively Logged Ngotto Forest, Central African Republic (2009) (9)
On the psychological well-being of chimpanzees. (1998) (8)
Contingency in requests of signing chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) (2012) (8)
Virulent HIV Strains, Chimpanzees, and Trial Vaccines (1999) (7)
Chimpanzee signing: Darwinian realities and Cartesian delusions (2002) (7)
Transmission of a Human Gestural Language in a Chimpanzee Mother-Infant Relationship (1994) (6)
Use of temporary and semipermanent enrichment objects by five chimpanzees. (1999) (5)
AMESLAN IN PAN (1977) (5)
Darwinian reflections on our fellow apes (2001) (3)
Deaf Children and Chimpanzees: A Comparative Sociolinguistic Investigation (1982) (2)
Unbalanced human apes and syntax (2003) (2)
Chimpanzee Biomedical Experiments: A Question of Efficacy (1995) (2)
The maternal behavior of a home-reared, language using chimpanzee (1981) (2)
Primates Face to Face: The ethics and efficacy of biomedical research in chimpanzees with special regard to HIV research (2002) (2)
Dirty bathwater, innateness neonates and the dating game (1991) (2)
Chimpanzees and Sign Language: Darwinian Realities versus Cartesian Delusions (2011) (1)
More on Chimpanzees, Language, and Communication (1976) (1)
Contingency in requests of signing chimpanzees (2012) (1)
Mentalism and methodology (1978) (1)
DISCUSSION PAPER: COMPARISON OF SIGN LANGUAGE PROJECTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR LANGUAGE ORIGINS (1976) (1)
Homo does not cogitate because of bread alone: Or, “I eat therefore I think?” (1982) (0)
Beatrix (Trixie) Gardner -- A Tribute (1995) (0)
A Note on Biology & Language (2013) (0)
Comprehension and production of sign language by a chimpanzee: (668292012-104) (1976) (0)
Signs of Cultural Transmission in a Chimpanzee: (626972012-125) (2008) (0)
RESEARCH ARTICLE Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) Tool Use in the Ngotto Forest, Central African Republic (2005) (0)
Chimpanzee use of gesture sequences during play (Paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association Meetings, Denver, CO., April, 12-14, 2007) (2007) (0)
Sign Language in Chimpanzees (2019) (0)
The Effects of the Availability of Linguistic Labels on Concurrent Discrimination Learning by an ASL Responding Chimpanzee (1983) (0)
Lucy grew up chimpanzee. (1977) (0)
Space use in captive chimpanzees (Paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association Meetings, Park City, UT., April 21, 2006) (2006) (0)
INTERACTION BETWEEN CHIMPANZEES (1984) (0)
Chapter 14: Multifactor Studies without Replication (2013) (0)
Book Review (2007) (0)
If a chimpanzee could talk and other reflections on language acquisition (1999) (0)
Learning to speak elephant (1998) (0)
THE RESEARCH AT GOMBE: ITS INFLUENCE ON HUMAN KNOWLEDGE (1989) (0)

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