DAMIEN NEADLE

Lecturer in Psychology

I am always interested in taking on research students or forming new collaborations. I also provide guest lecturing on relevant topics and am happy to consider public speaking engagements.

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BIO

I am a lecturer in psychology at Birmingham City University. Within the department, I am deputy course director for BSc (Hons) Psychology and the departmental Academic Integrity Officer. My main teaching areas are Research Methods and Quantitative Statistics. I also contribute to modules across the undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

My research interest is the evolution of cultural behaviours, especially tool use, in humans and non-humans and social learning in non-human primates.

My research generally takes place in zoos, where I provide apes with enrichment type tasks, designed to replicate wild-type behaviours.

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MY RESEARCH

Understanding through evolution

SOCIAL LEARNING CAPACITIES

Building on classical work from researchers such as Tomasello, Call, Whiten, Boyd and Richerson. Through this strand of my research I aim to understand which aspects of social learning are unique to our own species and which are shared between phylogenetically similar species.

APE TOOL USE

Building on the Zone of Latent Solutions concept, attempting to determine which, if any, of the doccumented ape tool use behaviours require social learning.

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PUBLISHED WORK

Neadle, D., Allritz, M., & Tennie, C. (2017). Food cleaning in gorillas: social learning is a possibility but not a necessity. PLoS ONE, 12(12), e0188866. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188866

Neadle, D., Chappell, J., Clay, Z., & Tennie, C. (2018). Testing the effects of conformity bias on great apes’ imitative abilities. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/GPV54

Neadle D, Bandini E, Tennie C. (2020). Testing the individual and social learning abilities of task-naïve captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes sp.) in a nut-cracking task. PeerJ, 8, e8734. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8734

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SELECTED WORKS IN PROGRESS

Neadle, D., Chappell, J., Clay, Z., & Tennie, C. (in prep.). Non-human great apes fail to spontaneously copy novel actions even when demonstrators form a majority

Neadle, D., & Clay, Z. (in prep). The development of object manipulation and tool-use in sanctuary-living bonobos.

Neadle, D., Dahl, C., Zuberbühler, K., & Clay, Z. (in prep). Idiosyncratic vocal sequences in bonobos.

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CONTACT ME

Thanks for your interest in my research. Get in touch with any questions or comments regarding my work and publications. I’d love to hear from you.

Birmingham City University page

University of Birmingham page

Twycross Zoo page

ResearchGate

Twitter: @damienneadle

ORCID: 0000-0001-8559-436X

damien.neadle@bcu.ac.uk

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