Main Focus

  • Comparative Evolutionary Psychology
  • Social Cognition of humans, non-human primates and canids
  • Production and perception of communication and emotions

Curriculum Vitae

2018 - current     PostDoc at MPIB

2017 - current     Guest lecturer at Universität Osnabrück

2014 - 2018        PostDoc at Freie Universität Berlin

2013 - 2014        Guest researcher at University of Groningen (NL)         

2007 - 2011        PhD at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI EVA)


Selected Literature

Oña LS, Sandler W, & Liebal K (2019). A stepping stone to compositionality in chimpanzee communication. PeerJ, 7, https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7623

Oña L, Oña LS, Wertz AE (2019) The evolution of plant social learning through error minimization. Journal of Evolution and Human Behavior, 40, 447-456. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.05.009

Liebal K, Oña LS (2018) Mind the gap - intentional gestures and emotional facial expressions of nonhuman primates? Interaction Studies, 19:1/2,  pp. 121–135

Liebal K, Oña LS (2018) Different Approaches to Meaning in Primate Gestural and Vocal Communication. Front. Psychol. 9:478. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00478

Scheider L, Waller B, Oña Le, Burrows A, Liebal K (2016) Social Use of Facial Expressions in Hylobatids. PLoS ONE 11(3): e0151733. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0151733

Scheider L, Burrows A, Oña Le, Liebal K, Waller B (2014) A comparison of facial expression properties in five hylobatid species. American Journal of Primatology, 76:618-628

Waller BM, Peirce K, Caeiro C, Scheider L, McCune S, Kaminski J (2013) Neotenous facial expressions give dogs a selective advantage. PLoS ONE 8(12): e82686. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0082686

Scheider L, Kaminski J, Call J, Tomasello M (2012) Do Domestic Dogs interpret Pointing as a Command? Animal Cognition, 16:3, 361-372.

Scheider L, Grassmann S, Kaminski J, Tomasello M (2011) Domestic Dogs Use Contextual Information and Tone of Voice when following a Human Pointing Gesture. PLoS ONE 6(7): e21676. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021676 

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