Dr. Limor Raviv 🦄🤗🐘🦒
@Limor_Raviv
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Group leader LEADS @MPI_NL & Lecturer @cSCAN_UofG ➡️ Language Evolution; Cultural Evolution; Animal & Human Cognition; Open Science; DON'T DREAM IT - BE IT!
Nijmegen, Nederland
Joined July 2016
I am advertising 2 positions in language evolution with my group at @Radboud_Uni:.📢 Fully-funded PhD position (Robotics/AI 🤖) 📢 Postdoc position (Virtual Reality 🎮).Deadline for applications is August 14th. Please RT! :).
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New paper with @vkempe on potential age differences in the interpretation and conventionalization of a recently introduced semiotic system: emojis! 😍 Unlike popular belief, young & older adults mostly agree on what face emojis mean (with some exceptions):
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Based on the thesis of my brilliant student Lucia @UofGlasgow, we show that gendered language (Italian) can be a painful source of non affirmation for non-binary people, and make some suggestions for improving their experiences and creating safer spaces 🙏
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Experiencing a lack of identity verification is an issue which most of the transgender community struggles with. Non-binary people’s daily struggle for affirmation may be even more difficult in a b...
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RT @CambUP_LangLing: Phonological Drift and Language Contact by Pavel Iosad .Using advances in linguistic theory this book explains multipl….
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RT @replicatedtypo: 🚨🚨 New preprint 📜 with Mathieu Charbonneau (@matcharbonneau1): Modelling the emergence of open-ended technological evol….
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Humans stand alone in terms of their potential to collectively and cumulatively improve technologies in an open-ended manner. This open-endedness provides societies with the ability to continually...
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RT @tmalsburg: 3+1-year fully funded PhD position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics. Official application deadline tod….
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RT @FriedericiLab: Is language processing modality-independent? And what have we learned from research on sign languages? Join the discussi….
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RT @abenitezburraco: The amount of hierarchical syntax in the world languages is smaller than thought (seemingly because of learning constr….
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RT @giosuebaggio: Language is not a monolith, but a set of connected cognitive capacities: what architecture explains best language structu….
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Language as a cognitive capacity involves multiple components, from input and output modalities to formal structures and layers of meaning. This Topic explores the hypothesis that these components...
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RT @NogaZaslavsky: If you've reached so far and find this research exciting: my lab is recruiting a postdoc and PhD students!. ➡️Postdoc ap….
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RT @NogaZaslavsky: individual learners seem to have an inductive bias toward maintaining optimally compressed representations, even without….
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RT @NogaZaslavsky: If you missed us at #cogsci2025, my lab presented 3 new studies showing how efficient (lossy) compression shapes individ….
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RT @EleuteriVesta: Happy to share this article on @ConversationUK covering our study on elephant gestures 🐘👋 @stoegerangela1 @NakedPrimate….
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Elephants were found to gesture intentionally when they wanted humans to give them apples. This trait was thought to exist mainly in primates.
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RT @NakedPrimate: The pattern was super clear! African apes scrump 25-60% of their fruits, orangutans <1%. There’s lots still to do—we know….
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RT @NakedPrimate: Friday night (somewhere) so settle in for a 🧵that combines fermented fruit, scrumping monkeys, etymology, Larson cartoons….
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Abstract. Mounting evidence points to the importance of fermented fruits in the diets of tropical frugivores, especially African apes. But how has this fun
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RT @blasi_lang: Very elegant study in @ScienceMagazine by @LukeFannin05 @DominyNathaniel @vivek_vasi @ChalachewMS and others demonstratin….
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RT @vivek_vasi: Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution. Our new article is out in @ScienceMagazine today. https://t.c….
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RT @abenitezburraco: Child brain organization:.- greater inter-individual variability in association regions, consistent with adult finding….
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RT @zannaclay: What contagious crying and comforting in infants tell us about the roots of emotional connection. We wrote a piece in Psyche….
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What contagious crying, comforting hugs and other cute behaviour in infants tells us about the roots of emotional connection
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RT @Multimodallang: You can watch all the highlights of our @isgs2025 conference on our utube channel
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