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Main professional background
2013 : Habilitation to Supervise Research (HDR), University of Strasbourg- Since 2011 : HDR Research Engineer at the Primate Centre of the University of Strasbourg
2009-2010 : Postdoctoral research “Gestural communication in olive baboons”. Collaboration with Professor J. Vauclair (Aix-Marseille University, France).
2007-2008 : Postdoctoral research “Audience effect on male participation in intergroup encounters in wild white-faced capuchins”. Collaboration with Professor S. Perry (UCLA, US).
2003-2007 : PhD “Decision-making processes involved in collective phenomena in semi-free ranging nonhuman primates (Cebus capucinus) : from experimental approach to mathematical modelling”. Co-supervision : Professor Deneubourg (ULB, Belgium) and Dr Petit (University of Strasbourg).
Research projects
Since January 2011, I have been developing research in social cognition on different non-human primate species (Cebus capucinus, C. apella, Macaca tonkeana, M. mulatta, M. fascicularis and Callithrix jacchus). My research topics mainly focus on sociocognitive abilities, memory and attention, and individual and collective decision-making processes.
- Missions : Research in the social behavior and cognition of non-human primates at the Primate Centre of the University of Strasbourg.
- Research topics : social cognition, individual and collective decision-making processes, information processing and transmission, comparative studies of humans and non-human primates.
Main funding & awards
- Partner in five ANR (French National Research Agency) projects
- USIAS Fellow
- Fyssen Foundation Postdoctoral fellowship
- Doctoral fellowship from the Institut de France
- De Meurs-François Thesis Prize
- David and Alice Van Buuren Foundation Thesis Prize
- Prize for the best oral presentation at the SFECA 2006
Teaching
- Between 50 and 96 equivalent teaching hours delivered each year in initial and continuing education on non-human primates, their behaviours, and their cognitive abilities.
- Scientific director of the training course in the continuing education department (SFC) of the University of Strasbourg : "Management of behaviour, environment and stress in captive primates - Tools to improve their well-being and solve their behavioural problems".
Selection of main publication
Calmette T, Calmette T & Meunier H. 2024. Persistence suggests metacognition in monkeys. Animal Behaviour. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.10.022
Calmette T & Meunier H. 2024. Is self-awareness necessary to have a theory of mind? Biological Reviews, 99: 1736-1771. doi: 10.1111/brv.13090
Miss F, Sadoughi B, Meunier H & Burkart J. 2022. Individual differences in co‐representation in three monkey species (Callithrix jacchus, Sapajus apella and Macaca tonkeana) in the joint Simon task: the role of social factors and inhibitory control. Animal Cognition. doi: 10.1007/s10071-022-01622-8
Sadoughi B, Lacroix L, Berbesque C, Lehmann J & Meunier H. 2021. Effects of social tolerance on stress: hair cortisol concentrations in the tolerant Tonkean macaques (Macaca tonkeana) and the despotic long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis). Stress, 24(6):1033-1041. doi: 10.1080/10253890.2021.1998443
Whitehouse J & Meunier H. 2020. An understanding of third-party friendships in a tolerant macaque. Scientific Reports 10: 9777. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-66407-w
Hirel M, Thiriau C, Roho I, Meunier H. 2020. Are monkeys able to discriminate appearance from reality? Cognition, 196: 104123. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104123
Trapanese C, Masi S & Meunier H. 2019. What, where and when: spatial foraging decisions in primates. Biological Reviews, 94(2): 483-502. doi: 10.1111/brv.12462
Meunier H. 2019. The Pertinence of Studying Neuroethology in Nonhuman Primates for Human Behavior in Groups and Organizations. Organizational Research Methods, 22(1): 250-274. doi: 10.1177/1094428118756741
Fizet J, Rimele A, Pebayle T, Cassel JC, Kelche C & Meunier H. 2017. An autonomous and automated device to assess concurrently several cognitive functions in non-human primates living in social groups. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 145: 45-58.
Meunier H. 2017. Do monkeys have a theory of mind? How to answer the question? Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 82: 110-123.
Full list of publications : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SNospHsAAAAJ&hl=fr&oi=ao