Emmanuelle POUYDEBAT Assistant professor Team FUNEVOL Email address: epouydebat@mnhn.fr Phone number : +33 (0)6 20 81 52 12 Mail address :: UMR 7179 C.N.R.S/M.N.H.N., Département d'Ecologie et de Gestion de la Biodiversité, 57 rue Cuvier, Case postale 55, 75231, Paris Cedex 5, France.

Actual research thematics and programs:
     Evolution of prehension in Tetrapods
     Prehension and tool use in Primates
     Interdisciplinary approach : ethology, biomechanics, functional morphology
     Applications in robotics and rehabilitation

Keywords : prehension, evolution, tool use, biomechanics, primates, hand preference, convergences

Publications :

Reghem E., Byron C., Bels V, Pouydebat E. 2012. Hand posture of Microcebus murinus during arboreal locomotion. Journal of zoology.

Reghem E., Tia B., Bels V., Pouydebat E., 2011. Food prehension and manipulation in Microcebus murinus (Prosimii, cheirogaleidae). Folia primatologica 82: 177-188.

Pouydebat E., Reghem E., Borel A., Gorce P., 2011. Diversity of grip in adults and young humans and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Behavioural Brain Research 218 (1-17) : 21-28.

Pouydebat E., Reghem E., Gorce P., Bels V., 2010. Influence of the task on hand preference: individual differences among gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). Folia Primatologica 81: 273-281.

Legreneur P., Thévenet F. R., Libourel P. A., Monteil K., Pouydebat E., Bels V., 2010. Hind limb interarticular coordinations in Microcebus murinus in maximal leaping. Journal of experimental Biology 213: 1320-1327.

Pouydebat E., Gorce P., Bels V., 2009. Biomechanical study of grasping according to the volume of the object : human versus non human primates. Journal of biomechanics 42(3-9): 266-272.

Marzke MW, E. Pouydebat, M. Laurin, P. Gorce and V. Bels., 2009. A clarification of Pouydebat et al., 2008, Evolution of grasping among anthropoids. Journal of evolutionary biology 22(12):2554-7.

Marzke MW, Pouydebat E. Comments on E. Pouydebat, P. Gorce, Y. Coppens, V. Bels, 2009. Biomechanical study of grasping according to the volume of the object: human versus non-human primates. Journal of biomechanics 42(15): 2628-9.

Pouydebat E., Laurin M., Gorce P., Bels. V., 2008. Evolution of grasping among anthropoïds. Journal of evolutionary biology 21(6):1732-43.

Pouydebat E., Gorce P., Bels V. 2008. Food Grasping in Primates: Evolutionary Perspectives Journal of Morphology 268(12): 1042-1154.

Pouydebat E., Gorce P., Coppens Y., Bels V. 2006. Substrate optimization in nuts cracking by capuchin monkeys. American journal of primatology 68(10): 1017-1024.

Pouydebat E., Berge, C., Gorce P., Coppens, Y. 2006. Prehension among primates : precision, tools and evolutionary perspectives. In : Thematic issue : One hundred years after Marey : some aspects of functional morphology today. Comptes Rendus Palevol de l’Académie des Sciences 5 (3-4): 597-602.

Pouydebat E., Coppens Y., Gorce P., 2006. Evolution de la préhension chez les primates humains et non humains : la précision et l’utilisation d’outils revisitées. L'Anthropologie 110(5) : 687-697.

Pouydebat E., Berge, C., Gorce, P., Coppens Y., 2005. Use and manufacture of tools to extract food by captive Gorilla gorilla gorilla: experimental approach. Folia Primatologica, 76, 180-183.