Mawa Dafreville

Mawa Dafreville
  • PhD in Developmental and Comparative Psychology
  • PostDoc Position at University of Lausanne

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Current institution
University of Lausanne
Current position
  • PostDoc Position
Additional affiliations
March 2018 - July 2018
Institute For Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST)
Position
  • Intern
Description
  • Role of Emotions in Learning in the Very Young Child
January 2018 - February 2018
Cognition Langues Language & Ergonomie (CLLE)
Position
  • Intern
Description
  • Intentionality and Multimodal Communication of the 6-month-old Infant
September 2017 - January 2018
Cognition Langues Langage & Ergonomie (CLLE)
Position
  • Intern
Description
  • Cooperation in Olive Baboons: Performance and Communication
Education
September 2015 - July 2017
University of Bordeaux
Field of study
  • Cognitive Sciences
September 2013 - July 2015
University of Bordeaux
Field of study
  • Mathematics and Computer Science applied to Cognitive Sciences

Publications

Publications (4)
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Attention-sensitive signalling is the pragmatic skill of signallers who adjust the modality of their communicative signals to their recipient’s attention state. This study provides the first comprehensive evidence for its onset and development in 7-to 20-month-olds human infants, and underlines its significance for language acquisition and evolutio...
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The present study aimed at investigating the ability of 7-to 20-month-old infants to display attention-sensitive communication using either canonical markers of language acquisition (e.g., pointing gestures, canonical babblings) or other signals based on the physical features actually perceived by the mother in everyday interaction (e.g., body move...
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Developmental precursors of the prelinguistic transition from gestures to word use can be found in the early pragmatic usage of auditory and visual signals across contexts. This study examined whether 6-month-old infants are capable of attention-sensitive communication with their mother, that is, adjusting the sensory modality of their communicativ...
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Gestural communication permeates all domains of chimpanzees' social life and is intentional in use. However, we still have only limited information on how young apes develop the sociocognitive skills needed for intentional communication. In this cross-sectional study, we document the development of behavioral adjustment to the recipient's visual at...

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