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Emma Suvi McEwen

University of St Andrews
Verified email at st-andrews.ac.uk
Cited by 70

Primate cognition in zoos: Reviewing the impact of zoo‐based research over 15 years

ES McEwen, E Warren, S Tenpas… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Primate cognition research is reliant on access to members of the study sp ecies and logistical
infrastructures to conduct observations and experiments. Historically founded in research …

Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) cognitive mechanisms for joint action and virtual environment navigation

ES McEwen - 2023 - research-repository.st-andrews.ac …
… Candidate's declaration I, Emma McEwen, do hereby certify that this thesis, submitted for the
degree of PhD, which is approximately 41,000 words in length, has been written by me, and …

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) navigate to find hidden fruit in a virtual environment

M Allritz, J Call, K Schweller, ES McEwen… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Almost all animals navigate their environment to find food, shelter, and mates. Spatial cognition
of nonhuman primates in large-scale environments is notoriously difficult to study. Field …

Swimming against the stream?: Mindfulness as a psychosocial research methodology

…, M Barker, V Edwards, E McEwen - Qualitative Research in …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, we extend psychosocial research methodology by integrating a breaching
experiment, influenced by ethnomethodological sociology, with aspects of mindfulness practice, …

[HTML][HTML] Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) show subtle signs of uncertainty when choices are more difficult

M Allritz, ES McEwen, J Call - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Humans can tell when they find a task difficult. Subtle uncertainty behaviors like changes in
motor speed and muscle tension precede and affect these experiences. Theories of animal …

[HTML][HTML] Chimpanzees demonstrate a behavioural signature of human joint action

MD Constable, ES McEwen, G Knoblich, C Gibson… - Cognition, 2024 - Elsevier
The strength of human society can largely be attributed to the tendency to work together to
achieve outcomes that are not possible alone. Effective social coordination benefits from …

Incorporation and Interaction of Co‐Doped Be and Mg in GaN Grown by Metal‐Organic Chemic Vapor Deposition

B McEwen, E Rocco, V Meyers, A Lanjani… - … status solidi (b), 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite recent advances in growth and characterization of GaN:Be, reliable conductive p‐type
GaN:Be remains elusive. In this work, GaN is co‐doped with Be and Mg to improve the …

Modeling the Contributions of Capacity and Control to Working Memory Development

E Russek, CR Turner, E McEwen… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - escholarship.org
Adults are known to have superior working memory to children, but whether this improvement
is driven primarily by differences in storage capacity or attentional control is debated. In …

Do chimpanzees represent the actions of a co-ordination partner?

MD Constable, E McEwen, G Knoblich… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - escholarship.org
Effective social co-ordination benefits from mentally representing a partner’s actions.
Chimpanzees can successfully work together, but the cognitive mechanisms they employ to aid …

Swimming against the stream: Investigating psychosocial flows through mindful awareness

…, M Barker, V Edwards, E McEwen - Qualitative Research in …, 2015 - oro.open.ac.uk
In this paper, we extend psychosocial research methodology by integrating a breaching
experiment, influenced by ethnomethodological sociology, with aspects of mindfulness practice, …