Publications

Cognition sociale & Social learning : leur mobilisation pour le changement de pratiques, le cas de l'habitabilité de la Terre

Etude des facteurs sociaux et non sociaux modulant le mimétisme 1/ des activités de culture de l'eau & des végétaux et 2/ des sites démonstrateurs

En transition...

-Gaunet, F. (2025). Crises environnementales et changement de pratiques : les apports de l'apprentissage social ("social learning"), une instanciation de la cognition sociale. 63e congrès de la Société Française de Psychologie « Adaptation, Variabilités et Transformation en Psychologie », Nantes 10-12 décembre. [pdf]

-Gaunet, F. (2024). La cognition sociale pour le développement et le changement d’échelle des pratiques proenvironnementales. Colloque Labos 1point5, Paris 5-7 novembre. [pdf]

-Gaunet, F., Vigouroux, A., Trouchaud, M.J., Hirschowitz, M. & Guyon, A. (2024). Evaluation of the efficacy of innovative collective intelligence tools to promote the One Health concept and pro-environmental actions: a narrative review. Heguel, 4(1), 45-55. [pdf]

-Gaunet, F. Nkoy C., Serveau V., Legou L. & Sandoz A. (2023). Facteurs sociaux et non sociaux affectant les comportements mimétiques d’activités : cas de la désimperméabilisation des sols, de la gestion durable de l'eau et de la plantation des végétaux. Crises climatiques, Crises sociales, Résilience et Ruptures, Aix-en-Provence 31/05 - 2/06.

-Lamontagne, A., & Gaunet, F. (2023). Revealing Behavioural Synchronization in Humans and Other Animals: Why Individuals Mirror Others. Springer Nature. 

Cognition sociale animale

Revues scientifiques

-Lamontagne, A., Legou, T., Brunel, M., Bedossa, T., & Gaunet, F. (2025). Familiar dog or familiar person: who do pet dogs best synchronize with?. Animals (2076-2615), 15(4). [pdf]

-Lamontagne, A., Legou, T., Bedossa, T., & Gaunet, F. (2025).  Social modulation of dogs' behavioural synchronization with humans: effect of number of people and owner's presence. Animal Behaviour, 219, 123019  [pdf]

-Déaux, E. C., Piette, T., Gaunet, F., Legou, T., Arnal, L., & Giraud, A. L. (2024). Dog–human vocal interactions match dogs’ sensory-motor tuning. Plos Biology, 22(10), e3002789.  [pdf]

-Lamontagne, A., Legou, T., Bedossa, T., & Gaunet, F. (2024). Walk with me? Part 2: Dogs synchronize with an unfamiliar person who first synchronized with their owner.  Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 106271 [pdf]

-Lamontagne, A., Legou, T., Bedossa, T., & Gaunet, F. (2024). Walk with me? Part 1: Dogs synchronize with an unfamiliar person who first synchronized with them. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 106204. [pdf]

-Lamontagne, A. & Gaunet, F. (2024). Behavioural synchronization between dogs and humans: unveiling interspecific motor resonance? Animals [pdf]

-Lamontagne, A., Legou, T., Rauchbauer, B,. Grosbras, M.-H., Fabre, F. & Gaunet, F. (2023). Behavioural synchronization and social referencing of dogs  and humans: walking in dyad vs in group. Animal Cognition [pdf]

-Duranton, C., Courby-Betremieux, C., & Gaunet, F. (2022). One-and two-month-old dog puppies exhibit behavioural synchronization with humans independently of familiarity. Animals, 12(23), 3356. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/12/23/3356 

-Helsly, M., Priymenko, N., Helsly, M., Girault, C., Duranton, C. & Gaunet, F.  (2022). Dog behaviours in veterinary consultations: Part II. The relationship between the behaviours of dogs and their owners. The Veterinary Journal, 105789 [pdf]

-Girault, C., Priymenko, N., Helsly, M., Duranton, C. & Gaunet, F.  (2022). Dog behaviours in veterinary consultations: Part I. Effect of the owner’s presence or absence. The Veterinary Journal, 105788 [pdf]

-Gaunet, F., Savalli, C. & Legou, T. (2022). An exploratory study on dogs’ vocalizations towards their owner and food in an unsolvable task. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 246. [pdf]

-Gaunet, F. & Capellà Miternique , H. (2020). Le caractère unique des chiens de la ville de Concepción  : variété des ajustements de territorialités et de socialités canines. Dans Comportement et bien-être du chien, Une approche interdisciplinaire, Bedossa, T. & Jeannin, S. Ed. Chap 15.

 -Gaunet, F. (2020).  Les cognitions du chien. Dans Comportement et bien-être du chien, Une approche interdisciplinaire, Bedossa, T. & Jeannin, S. Ed. Chap 10.

-Duranton, C. & Gaunet, F. (2020). Le rôle de l’affiliation dans la synchronisation comportementale interspécifique du chien avec l’humain : des processus cognitifs sociaux analogues à ceux de l’humain. L'Année Psychologique, 120(4), 315-339.

-Gaunet, F. & Capellà Miternique , H. (2020). Coexistence of diversified dog socialities and territorialities in the city of Concepción, Chile. Animals, [pdf].

-Gaunet, F. & Besse, S. (2019). Guide dogs' navigation after a single journey: A descriptive study of path reproduction, homing, shortcut and detour. Plos One 14 (7), e0219816 . [link to view]

-Duranton, C., Bedossa, T., & Gaunet, F. (2019).  When walking in an outside area, shelter dogs (Canis familiaris) synchronize activity with their caregivers, but do not remain as close to them as do pet dogs. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 133(3):397-405. [PDF]

-Duranton, C., Bedossa, T., & Gaunet, F. (2019). Pet dogs exhibit social preference for people who synchronize with them: what does it tell us about the evolution of behavioral synchronization? Animal Cognition, 22(2), 243-250.  [PDF]

-Bourjade, M., Gaunet, F., Maugard, A., & Meguerditchian, A. (2019). Bourjade, M., Gaunet, F., Maugard, A., & Meguerditchian, A. (2019). Manipulating social cues in baboon gesture learning: what does it tell us about the evolution of communication?  Animal cognition, 22(1), 113-125.   [link to view]

-Duranton, C., & Gaunet, F. (2018). Behavioral synchronization and affiliation: Dogs exhibit human-like skills. Learning & Behavior, 1-10. [PDF]

-Duranton, C., Bedossa, T., & Gaunet, F. (2018). Pet dogs synchronize their walking pace with that of their owners in open outdoor areas. Animal cognition, 21(2) 1-8.  [PDF]

- Duranton, C., Bedossa, T., & Gaunet, F. (2018). The perception of dogs’ behavioural synchronization with their owners depends partially on expertise in behaviour. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 199, 24-28 . [PDF]

- Duranton, C., Jeannin, S., Bedossa, T. & Gaunet, F. (2017). Autobiographic / Episodic memory in the dog: what does the dog model teach us? Médecine/Sciences, 33 (12), 1089-1095 . [PDF]

- Duranton, C., Bedossa, T.  & Gaunet, F. (2017). Interspecific behavioural synchronization: dogs exhibit locomotor synchrony with humans. Scientific Reports, 7, 12384. [PDF]

- Duranton, C., Bedossa, T.  & Gaunet, F. (2017). Do shelter dogs engage in social referencing with their caregiver in an approach paradigm? An exploratory study. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 189, 57-65. [PDF]

- Savalli, C., De Resende, B. & Gaunet, F. (2016). Eye contact is crucial for referential communication in pet dogs. Plos One, 11(9):e0162161.  [PDF]

- Meguerdetchian, A., Bourjade, M., Marie, D., Love, S., Fresnais, P., Plouvier, M. Margiotoudi, K., Roth, M., Lacoste, R., Nazarian, B., Bertello, A., Gaunet, F., Anton, J.-L. & Coulon, O. (2015). Brain, gestures and mouth in baboons (Papio anubis): What may they tell us about the origins of some language properties? Folia Primatologica, 86: 235-386.

- Townsend, S.W., Koski, S.E., Byrne, R.W., Slocombe, K.E., Bickel, B., Boeckle, M., Goncalves, I.B., Burkart, J.M., Flower, T., Gaunet, F., Glock, H.J., Gruber, T., Jansen, D., Liebal, K., Linke, A., Miklosi, A., Moore, R., van Schaik, C.P., Stoll, S., Vail, A, Waller, B.M., Wild, M., Zuberbuhler, K. & Manser, M.B. (2016). Exorcising Grice’s ghost : an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals. Biological reviews. [PDF]

- Duranton, C. & Gaunet, F. (2016). Effects of shelter housing on dogs’ sensitivity to human social cues. Journal of Veterinary Behavior : Clinical Applications and Research, 14, 20–27. [PDF]

- Duranton, C. & Gaunet, F. (2016). Behavioural synchronization from an ethological perspective : overview of its adaptive value. Adaptive Behavior, 24, 3 181-191. [PDF]

- Duranton, C., Bedossa, T & Gaunet, F. (2016). When facing an unfamiliar person, pet dogs present social referencing based on their owners’ direction of movement alone. Animal Behaviour 113, 147-156. [PDF]

- Duranton, C. & Gaunet, F. (2015). Canis sensitivus : affiliation and dogs’ sensitivity to others’ behavior as the basis for synchronization with humans ? Journal of Veterinary Behavior : Clinical Applications and Research, 10(6) 513-524. [PDF]

- Bourjade, M., Canteloup, C., Meguerditchian, A., Vauclair, J. & Gaunet, F. (2015). Training experience in gestures affects the display of social gaze in baboons’ communication with a human. Animal Cognition 18(1) 239-250 [PDF]

- Savalli, C., Ades, C & Gaunet, F. (2014). Are dogs able to communicate with their owners about a desirable food in a referential and intentional way ? Plos One 9(9) : e108003 [PDF]

- Gaunet, F., Pari-Perrin, E & Bernardin, G. (2014). Description of dogs and owners in outdoor built-up areas and their more-than-human issues. Environmental Management, 54(3) 383-401 [PDF]

- Gaunet, F. & El Massioui, F. (2014). Marked referential communicative behaviours, but no differentiation of the “knowledge state” of humans in untrained pet dogs vs. 1-year-old infants. Animal Cognition, 17(5) 1137-1147. [PDF]

- Deldalle, S. & Gaunet, F. (2014). Effects of two training methods on stress-related behaviors of the dog (Canis familiaris) and on the dog-owner relationship. Journal of Veterinary Behavior : Clinical Applications and Research, 9(2) 58-65. [PDF]

- Bourjade, M., Meguerditchian, A., Maille, A., Gaunet, F., & Vauclair, J. (2014). Olive baboons, Papio anubis, adjust their visual and auditory intentional gestures to the visual attention of others. Animal Behaviour, 87, 121-128. [PDF]

- Gaunet, F., & Deputte, B.L. (2011). Functionally referential and intentional communication in the domestic dog : Effects of spatial and social contexts. Animal Cognition, 14(2) 849-860. [PDF]

- Gaunet, F. & Milliet, J. (2010). The relationship of visually impaired people with the guide dog : How could the use of dogs be further developed in France. Alter - European Journal of Disability research, 4(2) 116-133. [PDF]

- Gaunet, F. (2010). How do guide dogs and pet dogs (Canis Familiaris) ask their owners for their toy and for play ? Animal Cognition, 13(2), 311-323. [PDF]

- Ittyerah, M., & Gaunet, F. (2009). The response of guide dogs and pet dogs (Canis Familiaris) to cues of human referential communication. Animal Cognition, 178(2) 167-179. [PDF]

- Gaunet, F. (2008). How do guide dogs and pet dogs (Canis familiaris) ask their owners for food ? Animal Cognition, 11(3) 475-483. [PDF]

- Lestel, D., Brunois, F. & Gaunet, F. (2006). Towards an etho-ethnology and an ethno-ethology. Social Science Information, 45, 155-177. [PDF]

Ouvrages & Chapitres d’ouvrage

- Gaunet, F. (2010). La cognition du chien. Comportement et éducation du chien, Bedossa T. & Deputte B.L. (Eds), pp. 425-450. Dijon : Educagri.

- Gaunet, F. (2010). Apprendre à connaître pour mieux cohabiter : intelligence sociale du chien et chiens en ville. Le Vivant en Ville, pp. 48-55.

- Gaunet, F. (2008). Les usages lies au chien et le modèle du chien d’assistance pour l’intégration harmonieuse du chien dans la ville. Le Vivant en Ville, pp 44.

- Gaunet, F. (2005). Cognition sociale : interactions homme-chien. La Communication, Béata, C. (Eds), pp. 25-30. Marseille : Solal. [PDF]

Cognition spatiale humaine   

Revues scientifiques

- Abi Chebel, N. M., Gaunet, F., Chavet, P., Assaiante, C., Bourdin, C., & Sarlegna, F. R. (2023). Does visual experience influence arm proprioception and its lateralization? Evidence from passive matching performance in congenitally-blind and sighted adults. Neuroscience Letters, 137335. [PDF]

- Kulyukin, V., Nicholson, J., Ross, D., Marston, J. & Gaunet, F. (2008). The blind leading the blind : Toward collaborative online route information management by individuals with visual impairments. Proceedings of the AAAI Social Information Processing Symposium. Palo Alto, CA, Mars, 2008. pp 54-59. [PDF]

- Ittyerah, M., Gaunet, F. & Rossetti, Y. (2007). Pointing with the left and right hands in congenitally blind children. Brain & Cognition, 64(2) : 170-83. [PDF]

- Gaunet, F., Ittyerah, M. & Rossetti, Y. (2007). Pointing at targets by children with congenital and transient blindness. Experimental Brain Research, 178, 167-179. [PDF]

- Gaunet, F. (2006). Verbal guidance rules for a localized wayfinding aid intended for blind pedestrians in urban areas. Universal Access in the Information Society, 4(4), 338-353. [PDF]

- Gaunet, F. & Rossetti, Y. (2006). Effects of visual deprivation on space representation : Immediate and delayed pointing toward memorized proprioceptive targets. Perception, 35, 107–124.[PDF]

- Gaunet, F. & Briffault, X. (2005). Exploring the functional specifications of a localized wayfinding verbal aid for blind pedestrians : Simple and structured urban areas. Human Computer Interaction, 20(3) 267-314. [PDF]

- Afonso, A., Gaunet, F. & Denis, M. (2004). The mental comparison of distances in a verbally described spatial layout : Effects of visual deprivation. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 23, 173-182.

- Gaunet, F. & Briffault, X. (2002). Navigational aid for blind pedestrians : Towards a localized verbal guidance system. Modelling, Measurement and Control, 63, 4, supp., 139-150.

- Gaunet, F., Vidal, M., Berthoz, A. & Kemeny, A. (2001). Active-passive and snapshot exploration in a virtual environment : Influence on scene memory, reorientation and path memory. Cognitive Brain Research, 11, 409-420. [PDF]

- Gaunet, F. & Berthoz, A. (2000). Mental rotation of spatial environments. Cognitive Brain Research, 9, 91-102. [PDF]

- Péruch, P., Borel, L., Gaunet, F. , Thinus-Blanc, C., Magnan, J. & Lacour, M. (1999). Spatial performance of unilateral vestibular defective patients in nonvisual versus visual navigation. Journal of Vestibular Research, 8, 1-12. [PDF]

- Péruch, P. & Gaunet, F. (1998). Virtual environments as a promising tool for investigating human spatial cognition. Current Psychology of Cognition, 17, 881-899.

- Chance, S., Gaunet, F., Beall, A. & Loomis, J. (1998). Locomotion mode affects the apprehension of spatial layout : The contribution of vestibular and proprioceptive inputs. Presence : Teleoperators and Virtual environments. Special issue on navigation in virtual environments, 7, 168-178. [PDF]

- Péruch, P., Thinus-Blanc, C., Gaunet, F., Borel, L., Giraudo, M. D. & Lacour, M. (1998). The role of visual and movement-related information in human spatial knowledge : The relevance of virtual reality systems. Current Psychology of Cognition, 17, 1067-1068.

- Gaunet, F., Martinez, J.L. & Thinus-Blanc, C. (1997). Early blind subject’s spatial representation of manipulatory space : Exploratory strategies and reaction to change. Perception, 26, 345-366. [PDF]

- Thinus-Blanc, C. & Gaunet, F. (1997). Space representations in the blind : Vision as a spatial sense ? Psychological Bulletin, 121, 20-42. [PDF]

- Gaunet, F. & Thinus-Blanc, C. (1996). Early blind subject’s spatial abilities in the locomotor space : Exploratory strategies and reaction to change performance. Perception, 25, 967-981.  [PDF]

- Rossetti, Y., Gaunet, F. & Thinus-Blanc, C. (1996). Early visual experience affects memorization and spatial representation of proprioceptive targets. Neuroreport, 7, 1219-1223. [PDF]

Ouvrages, Chapitres d’ouvrage et revues scientifiques en français

- Gaunet, F. & Gentaz, E. (2009). Effet de l’expérience visuelle sur l’inférence haptique d’une localisation. L’Année Psychologique, 109, 237-252. [PDF]

- Gaunet, F. & Briffault, X. (2008). A navigational aid for blind pedestrians designed with user- and activity-centered approaches. In Lumsden, J. (ed), Handbook of mobile human-computer interface. Hershey : Idea Group, Vol 3, pp 693-710. [PDF]

- Gentaz, E. & Gaunet, F. (2006). L’inférence haptique d’une localisation spatiale chez les adultes et les enfants : étude de l’effet du trajet et de l’effet du délai dans une tâche de complétion de triangle. L’Année Psychologique, 2, 167-190. [PDF]

- Gaunet, F. (2006). Image mentale et représentation spatiale. Les Monographies du Groupe de Recherche sur L’Alzheimer, Bernard, M., Desrouesné, C., M.-C. Gely-Nargeot, M.-C., Dubois, B. (Eds), pp. 107-116. Marseille : Solal.

- Kovacs, B., Gaunet, F. & Briffault, X. (2004). Techniques d’Analyse de l’Activité pour l’Interaction Homme-Machine. Londres : Hermes Science Publisher.

- Wydoodt, P., Gentaz, E., Gaunet, F., Chêne, D. & Steri, A. (2003). Haptic estimation of spatial location in virtual and real path completion task : Contributions of proprioceptive and cutaneous information on the "path effect". In Heller, M. & Ballesteros, S. (Eds). Touch, Blindness and Neuroscience (pp 351-361).

- Péruch, P., Gaunet, F., Thinus-Blanc, C., & Loomis, J. (2000). Understanding and learning virtual spaces. In R. Kitchin & S. Freundschuh (Eds.), Cognitive Mapping : Past, Present and Future. (pp. 108-124). London : Routledge.

- Borel, L., Péruch, P., Gaunet, F., Thinus-Blanc, C., Magnan, J., Chays, A. & Lacour, M. (1998). Système vestibulaire et représentation interne de l’environnement. In M. Lacour (Ed.), Posture et Equilibre. Entrées sensorielles, Méthodes d’exploration et applications (pp. 41-54). Montpellier : Sauramps Medical.

- Thinus-Blanc, C. & Gaunet, F. (1998). Spatial processing in animals and humans : The organizing function of representations for information gathering. In R.G. Golledge (Ed.), Wayfinding Behavior : Cognitive Mapping and Other Spatial Processes (pp. 294-307). Baltimore, MD : The Johns Hopkins University Press.

- Gaunet, F. & Thinus-Blanc, C. (1995). Exploratory patterns and reactions to spatial changes : The role of early visual experience. In B.G. Bardy, R.J. Bootsma, Y. Guiard (Eds). Studies in Perception and Action III (pp 351-354). Mahwah : Lawrence Elbaum Associates, Inc.

- Péruch, P., Gaunet, F., Thinus-Blanc, C. & Giraudo, M.D. (1995). Encoding of spatial information during navigation in simulated environment. In B.G. Bardy, R.J. Bootsma, Y. Guiard (Eds). Studies in Perception and Action III (pp 225-228). Mahwah : Lawrence Elbaum Associates, Inc.