Dr Sarah-Jane Vick

Affiliations:

Member of our departmental Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG), the and the Scottish Primate Research Group, and the International Society for Anthrozoology.  Council member for the British Science Association Psychology Section Committee (2005-2010) and member of the Primate Society of Great Britain.

 

PhD Students:

• Anna Roberts(2005 - 2011) Gestural communication in wild chimpanzees.
• Adam Milligan (2008 -) Emotional laterality in primates.

• Betsy Herrelko (2008 - ) Using video to explore cognition in captive chimpanzees:The Chimpcam Project
• Becky Leonardi (2010 - Co-supervisor) animal assisted intervention for male young offenders

Recent Presentations

2009

Interspecies: Artists collaborating with animals, London.

Exploring chimpanzee cognition using visual stimuli

2008

International Primatological Society, Symposium on Facial Expression, Edinburgh

            Yawning in chimpanzees: An observational study of form and function                               

Seminar, Laboratoire d’Éthologie et de Cognition Comparées, University of Paris X, France

            Studying self-control in birds

2007

Seminar, Laboratoire d’Éthologie et de Cognition Comparées, University of Paris X, France

Do African grey parrots have any self control?

Seminar, Psychology Department, University of Strathclyde, Uk

Why study chimpanzee facial expressions?

2006

Seminar, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

ChimpFACS: applications for the comparative study of emotional expression

2005                                                                                     

BA Festival of Science, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland  

Public lecture: What can we learn from studying primate facial expressions?                                                                                                                        

l1th European Conference on Facial Expressions, University of Durham, UK

Organiser/presenter symposium on primate facial communication

3rd International Workshop on Evolution & Development of Cognition, University of Kyoto, Japan  

The evolution of facial communication in primates

 

Certified Facial Action Coding System (FACS) coder

Part of the resaerch team which modified FACS for use with chimpanzees: 

Please visit the ChimpFACS website for further information on this project. 

We have also now developed a FACS for use in macaques [MAQFACS webiste]

Applying ChimpFACS to examine the form and function of facial expressions in chimpanzees, including a collaboration with Dr Charles Menzel (Language Research Center, Georgia State University) to examine emotional communication in language trained chimpanzees (funded by small grants from the Carnegie Foundation and British Academy).

FEELIX growing: an EU funded project looking at how socio-emotional skills emerge in humans and other primates in order to apply these principles to human-robot interaction.

Collaboration with Dalila Bovet, Laboratoire d’Éthologie et de Cognition Comparées, University of Paris X, looking at self control in African grey parrots

Undergraduate:
I am a member of the Animal Behaviour module teaching team. I offer two final year electives (Psychology of Facial Expression and Conservation Psychology) and supervise final year projects on: facial expressions and emotion, human-animal interactions, and comparative cognition.
Member of the Learning and Teaching Committee.
 
Postgraduate:
I co-ordinator of MSc programme in research methods and contribute to postgraduate teaching and project supervision. Member of the Postgraduate Commitee.

•    RJ Leonardi, S-J Vick & V Dufour (2011) Waiting for more? The performance of domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) on exchange tasks. Animal Cognition. DOI:10.1007/s10071-011-0437-y
•    KA Bard, AD Gaspard & S-J Vick (2011) Chimpanzee faces under the magnifying glass: Emerging methods reveal cross-species similarities and individuality. In A. Weiss, J. King, & L. Murray (Eds). Personality and Behavioral Syndromes in Nonhuman Primates. Springer-Verlag.
•    LA Parr, BM Waller, AM Burrows, KM Gothard & S-J Vick (2010) MaqFACS: A muscle-based facial movement coding system for the rhesus macaque. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 143:  625–630
•    L Howard & S-J Vick (2010) Does it bite? The role of stimuli characteristics on preschoolers’ interactions with robots, insects and a dog. Anthrozoos 23: 397-413.
•    S-J Vick & A Paukner (2010) Variation and context of yawns in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). American Journal of Primatology, 72: 262-269 DOI:10.1002/ajp.20781          PDF
•    S-J Vick, D Bovet & JR Anderson (2009) How do African grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus) perform on a delay of gratification task? Animal Cognition: 13 (2) 351-358. DOI:10.1007/s10071-009-0284-2    PDF
•    JR Anderson & S-J Vick (2008). What do primates know about gaze? Chapter in K. Fujita & S. Itakura (Ed) Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary and Developmental Views. Springer.
•    BM Waller, KA Bard, S-J Vick & M Smith Pasqualini (2007). Perceived differences between chimpanzee and human facial expressions are related to emotional interpretation Journal of Comparative Psychology, 121 (4) 398-404 ABSTRACT
•    LA Parr, BM Waller & S-J Vick (2007) New developments in understanding emotional facial signals in chimpanzees. Current Directions in Psychological Science 16: 117–122
•    S-J Vick, BM Waller, LA Parr, MC Smith Pasqualini & KA Bard (2007) A cross species comparison of facial morphology and movement in humans and chimpanzees. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior 31: 1-20
•    LA Parr, BM Waller, S-J Vick & KA Bard (2007) Classifying chimpanzee facial expressions using muscle action. Emotion  7: 172-181
•    EJ Bethell, S-J Vick & KA Bard (2007). Measurement of eye-gaze in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). American Journal of Primatology 69: 562-575
•    BM Waller, S-J Vick, LA Parr, MC Smith Pasqualini, KA Bard, K Gothard & A Fuglevand (2006). Intramuscular electrical stimulation of facial muscles in humans and chimpanzees: Duchenne revisited and extended. Emotion 6: 367-382
•    S-J Vick, IP Toxopeus & JR Anderson (2006) Pictorial gaze cues do not enhance long tailed macaques' perfomance on a computerised object-location task. Behavioural Processes 73: 308-314
•    S-J Vick & JR Anderson (2003). The use of visual orientation cues in a competitive task by olive baboons (Papio anubis). Journal of Comparative Psychology 117: 209–216
•    S-J Vick, D Bovet & JR Anderson (2001). Discrimination of gaze cues by olive baboons (Papio anubis). Animal Cognition 4: 1-10
•    JR Anderson, H Kuroshima, H Kuwahate, K Fujita & S-J Vick (2001). Training squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) to deceive. Journal of Comparative Psychology 115: 282-293
•    S-J Vick & JR Anderson (2000). Learning and limits of use of eye gaze by capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) in an object-choice task. Journal of Comparative Psychology 114: 200–207
•    S-J Vick, JR Anderson & RJ Young (2000) Maracas for macaca? Evaluation of three potential enrichment objects in two species of macaques. Zoo Biology 19: 181-191

 

Manuals:
S-J Vick, BM Waller, LA Parr, MC Smith Pasqualini & KA Bard (2006) The ChimpFACS manual. University of Portsmouth. [CHIMPFACS MANUAL]

LA Parr, S-J Vick, BM Waller, AM Burrows & K Gothard (2009) MaqFACS: Macaque Facial Action Coding System.  [MAQFACS MANUAL]