Submitted, under review, accepted
Jennifer D. Mugleston, Shin-Miau Huang, and Christoph D. Dahl. Dog point-following shows stronger side guidance than target localisation in an asymmetric six-cup task. Submitted (Animal Behaviour).
Christoph D. Dahl. Entropic Compression and Target Preservation in Category Maps. Submitted (Entropy).
Christoph D. Dahl, and Timothy J. Lane. Democracy and Autocracy as Competing Long-Run Regimes in a Minimal Norm--Institution Model. Submitted ().
Christoph D. Dahl. Information funnels and coarse-grained dynamics in finite-state systems. Submitted (Phys Rev E).
Christoph D. Dahl. Semantic grounding in biological and artificial agents: a framework for graded semantic interpretation. Submitted (Minds and Machines).
Hsin-En Cheng and Christoph D. Dahl. Ecological gating of approximate number processing in zebrafish group-association decisions. Under Review (Animal Cognition).
2026
Jennifer D. Mugleston, Shin-Miau Huang, and Christoph D. Dahl. Referential and attentional accounts of dog point-following in an asymmetric multi-cup design. bioRxiv, 2026.
Christoph D. Dahl. An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Category Maps and Target Preservation. bioRxiv, 2026.
Christoph D. Dahl, and Timothy J. Lane. Competing democratic and autocratic long-run regimes in a minimal norm–institution model. SSRN, 2026.
Hsin-En Cheng, and Christoph D Dahl. Ecological context gates numerosity-based affiliation decision in zebrafish. bioRxiv, 2026.
Christoph D Dahl. Coarse-grained drift fields and attractor-basin entropy in Kaprekar’s routine. Entropy, 28(1), 92, 2026.
2007 - 2025
Christoph D Dahl. Information funnels and multiscale gap-space dynamics in Kaprekar's routine. arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.05124, 2025.
Penelope Lacombe, Klaus Zuberbühler, and Christoph D Dahl. Contextual influences on risk-taking in children and adults. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 19, 1644777, 2025.
Christoph D Dahl and Yaling Cheng. Individual recognition in a jumping spider (Phidippus regius). e-life, 2025.
Christoph D Dahl and Yaling Cheng. Individual recognition in a jumping spider (Phidippus regius). bioRxiv, pages 2023–11, 2023.
Penelope Lacombe, Sarah Brocard, Klaus Zuberbühler, and Christoph D Dahl. Rationality and cognitive bias in great ape economic decision-making. PLoS One, 2022.
Elodie Ferrando and Christoph D Dahl. An investigation on the olfactory capabilities of domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris). Animal Cognition, 2022.
Elodie Ferrando and Christoph D Dahl. Olfactory detection and discrimination in domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris). bioRxiv, 2022.
Derry Taylor, Zanna Clay, Christoph D Dahl, Klaus Zuberbühler, Marina Davila-Ross, and Guillaume Dezecache. Vocal functional flexibility: what it is and why it matters. Animal Behaviour, 186:93–100, 2022.
Guillaume Dezecache, Klaus Zuberbühler, Marina Davila-Ross, and Christoph D Dahl. Flexibility in wild infant chimpanzee vocal behavior. Journal of Language Evolution, 2021.
Guillaume Dezecache, Klaus Zuberbühler, Marina Davila-Ross, and Christoph D Dahl. A machine learning approach to infant distress calls and maternal behaviour of wild chimpanzees. Animal Cognition, 2020.
Christoph D Dahl, Elodie Ferrando, and Klaus Zuberbühler. An information-theory approach to geometry for animal groups. Animal Cognition, 23(4):807–817, 2020.
Guillaume Dezecache, Klaus Zuberbüler, Marina Davila-Ross, and Christoph D Dahl. Machine learning reveals adaptive maternal responses to infant distress calls in wild chimpanzees. bioRxiv, page 835827, 2019.
Guillaume Dezecache, Klaus Zuberbühler, Marina Davila-Ross, and Christoph D Dahl. Early vocal production and functional flexibility in wild infant chimpanzees. bioRxiv, page 848770, 2019.
Christoph D Dahl, Elodie Ferrando, and Klaus Zuberbühler. An information-theory approach to geometry for animal groups. bioRxiv, page 839548, 2019.
Renata S Mendonça*, Christoph D Dahl*, Susana Carvalho, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, and Ikuma Adachi. Touch-screen-guided task reveals a prosocial choice tendency by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). PeerJ, 6:e5315, 2018.
Christoph D Dahl, Christa Wyss, Klaus Zuberbühler, and Iris Bachmann. Social information in equine movement gestalts. Animal Cognition, 21(4):583–594, 2018.
Guillaume Dezecache, Julie Grèzes, and Christoph D Dahl. The nature and distribution of ailiative behaviour during exposure to mild threat. Royal Society Open Science, 4(8):170265, 2017.
Guillaume Dezecache, Klaus Zuberbühler, Marina Davila-Ross, and Christoph D Dahl. Skin temperature changes in wild chimpanzees upon hearing vocalizations of conspecifics. Royal Society Open Science, 4(1):160816, 2017.
Guillaume Dezecache, Klaus Zuberbühler, Marina Davila-Ross, and Christoph D Dahl. The evolution of crying: Distress calls and infants’ needs in wild chimpanzees. In Folia Primatologia, volume 88, pages 120–121, 2017.
Pawel Fedurek, Klaus Zuberbühler, and Christoph D Dahl. Sequential information in a great ape utterance. Scientific Reports, 6:38226, 2016.
Christoph D Dahl, Malte J Rasch, Isabelle Bülthoff, and Chien-Chung Chen. Integration or separation in the processing of facial properties-a computational view. Scientific Reports, 6:20247, 2016.
Christoph D Dahl, Chien-Chung Chen, and Malte J Rasch. Own-race and own-species advantages in face perception: a computational view. Scientific Reports, 4:6654, 2014.
Christoph D Dahl, Malte J Rasch, and Chien-Chung Chen. The other-race and other-species effects in face perception–a subordinate-level analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:1068, 2014.
Christoph D Dahl and Ikuma Adachi. Conceptual metaphorical mapping in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). e-life, 2:e00932, 2013.
Christoph D Dahl, Malte J Rasch, Masaki Tomonaga, and Ikuma Adachi. The face inversion effect in non-human primates revisited-an investigation in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Scientific Reports, 3:2504, 2013.
Christoph D Dahl, Malte J Rasch, Masaki Tomonaga, and Ikuma Adachi. Laterality effect for faces in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Neuroscience, 33(33):13344–13349, 2013.
Christoph D Dahl, Malte J Rasch, Masaki Tomonaga, and Ikuma Adachi. Developmental processes in face perception. Scientific Reports, 3:1044, 2013.
Christoph D Dahl, Nikos K Logothetis, Heinrich H Bültho, and Christian Wallraven. Second-order relational manipulations aect both humans and monkeys. PloS one, 6(10):e25793, 2011.
Christoph D Dahl, Nikos K Logothetis, Heinrich H Bültho, and Christian Wallraven. The Thatcher illusion in humans and monkeys. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277(1696):2973–2981, 2010.
Christoph D Dahl, Nikos K Logothetis, and Christoph Kayser. Modulation of visual responses in the superior temporal sulcus by audio-visual congruency. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 4:10, 2010.
Christoph D Dahl, Nikos K Logothetis, and Christoph Kayser. Spatial organization of multisensory responses in temporal association cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(38):11924–11932, 2009.
Christoph D Dahl, Christian Wallraven, Heinrich H Bültho, and Nikos K Logothetis. Humans and macaques employ similar face-processing strategies. Current Biology, 19(6):509–513, 2009.
Christoph D Dahl. Visual Face Understanding: A Comparative Approach. PhD thesis, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 2009.
Christoph D Dahl, Nikos K Logothetis, and Kari L Homan. Individuation and holistic processing of faces in rhesus monkeys. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 274(1622):2069–2076, 2007.
Martin H Fischer and Christoph D Dahl. The time course of visuo-motor aordances. Experimental Brain Research, 176(3):519–524, 2007.
Danijel Skokaj, Markus Graf, Christoph D Dahl, and Ales Leonardis. On categorization in human and machine. 2007.