Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Anja Reimann
phone: +49 (0)341 3550 - 400
e-mail: info_ccp@eva.mpg.de
Manuel Bohn

Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 405
email: manuel_bohn@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Research Interests
Curriculum Vitae
Projects & Partners
Publications
Research Awards & Funding
Research Interests
I'm a developmental psychologist interested in the psychological foundations of human communication. My current research focuses on how children’s everyday experience relates to their communicative and cognitive development. For a broader perspective, I also study the communicative and cognitive abilities of great apes. My goal is to understand the shared and unique aspects of human cognition that allow children to acquire conventional language.
Personal website: https://manuelbohn.github.io/
Curriculum Vitae
Career & Education
2020 - present | Postdoctoral Researcher |
2017 - 2020 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow Language and Cognition Lab, Stanford University, USA & Leipzig Research Center for Early Child Development, Germany |
2016 - 2017 | Postdoctoral researcher Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany |
2013 - 2016 | PhD Student Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany |
Memberships
- DGP - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie
Languages
- German
- English
- Latin (fluent – like Cicero, but with a slight accent)
Projects & Partners
- ManyPrimates
Publications
Kachel, G., Hardecker, D. J. K., & Bohn, M. (2021). Young children's developing ability to integrate gestural and emotional cues. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,201: 104984. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
Hardwicke, T. E., Bohn, M., MacDonald, K., Hembacher, E., Nuijten, M. B., Peloquin, B. N., deMayo, B. E., Long, B., Yoon, E. J., & Frank, M. C. (2020). Analytic reproducibility in articles receiving open data badges at Psychological Science: An observational study. MetaArXiv. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Bohn, M., Call, J., & Völter, C. J. (2020). Evolutionary precursors of negation in non-human reasoning. In V. Déprez, & M. Espinal ( BibTeX Endnote | |
Bohn, M., Le, K., Peloquin, B., Koymen, B., & Frank, M. C. (2020). Children's interpretation of ambiguous pronouns based on prior discourse. PsyArXiv. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Tauzin, T., Bohn, M., Gergely, G., & Call, J. (2020). Context-sensitive adjustment of pointing in great apes. Scientific Reports,10: 1048. ![]() |
Bohn, M., Kachel, G., & Tomasello, M. (2019). Young children spontaneously recreate core properties of language in a new modality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,116(51), 26072-26077. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Bohn, M., & Frank, M. C. (2019). The pervasive role of pragmatics in early language. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology,1, 223-249. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Many Primates, Altschul, D. M., Beran, M. J., Bohn, M., Call, J., DeTroy, S., Duguid, S. J., Egelkamp, C. L., Fichtel, C., Fischer, J., Flessert, M., Hanus, D., Haun, D. B. M., Haux, L. M., Hernandez-Aguilar, R. A., Herrmann, E., Hopper, L. M., Joly, M., Kano, F., Keupp, S., Melis, A. P., Motes Rodrigo, A., Ross, S. R., Sánchez Amaro, A., Sato, Y., Schmitt, V., Schweinfurth, M. K., Seed, A. M., Taylor, D., Völter, C. J., Warren, E., & Watzek, J. (2019). Establishing an infrastructure for collaboration in primate cognition research. PLoS One,14(10): e0223675. ![]() | |
Margiotoudi, K., Allritz, M., Bohn, M., & Pulvermüller, F. (2019). Sound symbolic congruency detection in humans but not in great apes. Scientific Reports,9: 12705. ![]() | |
Bohn, M., Tessler, M. H., Merrick, M., & Frank, M. C. (2019). Predicting pragmatic cue integration in adults' and children's inferences about novel word meanings. PsyArXiv. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Bohn, M., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2019). Natural reference: A phylo- and ontogenetic perspective on the comprehension of iconic gestures and vocalizations. Developmental Science,22(2): e12757. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Jasbi, M., Bohn, M., Long, B., Fourtassi, A., Barner, D., & Frank, M. C. (2019). Comment on Cesana-Arlotti et al. (2018). PsyArXiv. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Bohn, M., Tessler, M. H., & Frank, M. C. (2019). Integrating common ground and informativeness in pragmatic word learning. In A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (![]() | |
Many Primates, Altschul, D. M., Beran, M. J., Bohn, M., Caspar, K. R., Fichtel, C., Försterling, M., Grebe, N. M., Hernandez-Aguilar, R. A., Kwok, S. C., LLorente, M., Motes Rodrigo, A., Proctor, D., Sánchez Amaro, A., Simpson, E. A., Szabelska, A., Taylor, D., van der Mescht, J., Völter, C. J., & Watzek, J. (2019). Collaborative open science as a way to reproducibility and new insights in primate cognition research. Japanese Psychological Review,62(103), 205-220. BibTeX Endnote |
Bohn, M., Zimmermann, L., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2018). The social-cognitive basis of infants' reference to absent entities. Cognition,177, 41-48. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Bohn, M., & Köymen, B. (2018). Common ground and development. Child Development Perspectives,12(2), 104-108. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
Schmelz, M., Duguid, S., Bohn, M., & Völter, C. J. (2017). Cooperative problem solving in giant otters (Pteronura brasiliensis) and Asian small-clawed otters (Aonyx cinerea). Animal Cognition,20(6), 1107-1114. ![]() | |
Bohn, M., Allritz, M., Call, J., & Völter, C. J. (2017). Information seeking about tool properties in great apes. Scientific Reports,7: 10923. ![]() | |
Bohn, M. (2017). Information and the evolution of human communication. In W. Hofkirchner ( DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Bohn, M., & Stöber, G. (2017). Soziale Determinanten menschlicher Kommunikation. In Max Planck Society ( DOI BibTeX Endnote |
Bohn, M., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Comprehension of iconic gestures by chimpanzees and human children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,142, 1-17. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Bohn, M. (2016). Social cognition and human communication: Reference to absent entities in great apes and human infants. PhD Thesis, Univ., Leipzig. BibTeX Endnote | |
Bohn, M., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2016). The role of past interactions in great apes' communication about absent entities. Journal of Comparative Psychology,130(4), 351-357. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
Bohn, M., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Communication about absent entities in great apes and human infants. Cognition,145, 63-72. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
Stieger, S., Burger, C., Bohn, M., & Voracek, M. (2013). Who commits virtual identity suicide? Differences in privacy concerns, internet addiction, and personality between facebook users and quitters. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking,16(9), 629-634. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
Research Awards & Funding
2017-2020 | ERC Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship |
2013-2016 | Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |