Manuel Bohn
Guest
Abteilung für Vergleichende Kulturpsychologie
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
E-Mail:
manuel_bohn@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
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
| 2023 - present | Assistant Professor Institute for Psychology Leuphana University Lüneburg |
| 2020 - 2023 | 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
Schuwerk, T., Kampis, D., Baillargeon, R., Biro, S., Bohn, M., Byers-Heinlein, K., & Rakoczy, H. (in press). Action anticipation based on an agent's epistemic state in toddlers and adults. Child Development. |
Bohn, M., Prein, J., Engicht, J., Haun, D., Gagarina, N., & Koch, T. (2025). PREVIC: An adaptive parent report measure of expressive vocabulary in children between 3 and 8 years of age. Behavior Research Methods, 57: 95. |
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Prein, J. C., Bednarski, F. M., Dzabatou, A., Frank, M. C., Henderson, A. M. E., Kalbitz, J., Kanngiesser, P., Keşşafoğlu, D., Köymen, B., Manrique-Hernandez, M. V., Magazi, S., Mújica-Manrique, L., Ohlendorf, J., Olaoba, D., Pieters, W. R., Pope-Caldwell, S. M., Sen, U., Slocombe, K., Sparks, R. Z., Stengelin, R., Sunderarajan, J., Sutherland, K., Tusiime, F., Viera, W., Zhang, Z., Zong, Y., Haun, D. B. M., & Bohn, M. (2025). Measuring variation in gaze following across communities, ages, and individuals: A showcase of TANGO-CC (Task for Assessing iNdividual differences in Gaze understanding-Open-Cross-Cultural). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8(1). |
Open AccessPrein, J. C., Maurits, L., Werwach, A., Haun, D. B. M., & Bohn, M. (2024). Variation in gaze following across the life span: A process-level perspective. Developmental Science, 27(6): e13546. |
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Bohn, M., Fong, F. T. K., Pope-Caldwell, S. M., Stengelin, R., & Haun, D. B. M. (2024). Understanding cultural variation in cognition one child at a time. Nature Reviews Psychology, 3(10), 641-643. |
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Bohn, M., Vieira, W. F. d. S., Giner Torréns, M., Kärtner, J., Itakura, S., Cavalcante, L., Haun, D., Köster, M., & Kanngiesser, P. (2024). Mealtime conversations between parents and their 2-year-old children in five cultural contexts. Developmental Psychology, 60(7), 1255-1268. |
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Stengelin, R., Bohn, M., Sánchez Amaro, A., Haun, D. B. M., Thiele, M., Daum, M. M., Felsche, E., Fong, F. T. K., Gampe, A., Giner Torréns, M., Grueneisen, S., Hardecker, D. J. K., Horn, L., Neldner, K., Pope-Caldwell, S. M., & Schuhmacher, N. (2024). Responsible research is also concerned with generalizability: Recognizing efforts to reflect upon and increase generalizability in hiring and promotion decisions in psychology. Meta-Psychology, 8. |
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Bohn, M., Prein, J. C., Delikaya, B., Haun, D. B. M., & Gagarina, N. (2024). oREV: An item response theory-based open receptive vocabulary task for 3- to 8-year-old children. Behavior Research Methods, 56(3), 2595-2605. |
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Prein, J. C., Kalinke, S., Haun, D. B. M., & Bohn, M. (2024). TANGO: A reliable, open-source, browser-based task to assess individual differences in gaze understanding in 3 to 5-year-old children and adults. Behavior Research Methods, 56(3), 2469-2485. |
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Steffan, A., Zimmer, L., Arias-Trejo, N., Bohn, M., Ben, R. D., Flores-Coronado, M. A., Franchin, L., Garbisch, I., Grosse Wiesmann, C., Hamlin, J. K., Havron, N., Hay, J. F., Hermansen, T. K., Jakobsen, K. V., Kalinke, S., Ko, E.-S., Kulke, L., Mayor, J., Meristo, M., Moreau, D., Mun, S., Prein, J. C., Rakoczy, H., Rothmaler, K., Oliveira, D. S., Simpson, E. A., Smith, E. S., Strid, K., Tebbe, A.-L., Thiele, M., Yuen, F., & Schuwerk, T. (2024). Validation of an open source, remote web-based eye-tracking method (WebGazer) for research in early childhood. Infancy, 29(1), 31-55. |
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Zahra, A., Martin, P.-E., Bohn, M., & Haun, D. (2024). Computer vision for analyzing children’s lived experiences. In K. Arai ( |
Bohn, M., Tessler, M. H., Kordt, C., Hausmann, T., & Frank, M. C. (2023). An individual differences perspective on pragmatic abilities in the preschool years. Developmental Science, 26(6): e13401. |
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Bang, J. Y., Bohn, M., Ramírez, J., Marchman, V. A., & Fernald, A. (2023). Spanish‐speaking caregivers’ use of referential labels with toddlers is a better predictor of later vocabulary than their use of referential gestures. Developmental Science, 24(4): e13287. |
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Bohn, M., Eckert, J., Hanus, D., Lugauer, B., Holtmann, J., & Haun, D. B. M. (2023). Great ape cognition is structured by stable cognitive abilities and predicted by developmental conditions. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7, 927-938. |
Bohn, M., Tessler, M. H., Merrick, M., & Frank, M. C. (2022). Predicting pragmatic cue integration in adults’ and children’s inferences about novel word meanings. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(11), 2927-2942. |
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ManyPrimates, Aguenounon, G., Allritz, M., Altschul, D., Ballesta, S., Beaud, A., Bohn, M., Bornbusch, S., Brandão, A., Brooks, J., Bugnyar, T., Burkart, J., Bustamante, L., Call, J., Canteloup, C., Cao, C., Caspar, K., da Silva, D., de Sousa, A., DeTroy, S., Duguid, S., Eppley, T., Fichtel, C., Fischer, J., Gong, C., Grange, J., Grebe, N., Hanus, D., Haun, D., Haux, L., Héjja-Brichard, Y., Helman, A., Hernadi, I., Hernandez-Aguilar, R. A., Herrmann, E., Hopper, L., Howard, L., Huang, L., Huskisson, S., Jacobs, I., Jin, Z., Joly, M., Kano, F., Keupp, S., Kiefer, E., Knakker, B., Kóczán, K., Kraus, L., Kwok, S. C., Lefrançois, M., Lewis, L., Liu, S., Llorente, M., Lonsdorf, E., Loyant, L., Majecka, K., Maurits, L., Meunier, H., Mobili, F., Morino, L., Motes-Rodrigo, A., Nijman, V., Ihomi, C., Persson, T., Pietraszewski, D., Reátiga Parrish, J., Roig, A., Sánchez Amaro, A., Sato, Y., Sauciuc, G.-A., Schrock, A., Schweinfurth, M., Seed, A., Shearer, C., Šlipogor, V., Su, Y., Sutherland, K., Tan, J., Taylor, D., Troisi, C., Völter, C., Warren, E., Watzek, J., & Zablocki-Thomas, P. (2022). The Evolution of primate short-term memory. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 9(4), 428-516. |
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Bohn, M., Liebal, K., Oña, L., & Tessler, M. H. (2022). Great ape communication as contextual social inference: a computational modelling perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377(1859): 20210096. |
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Bohn, M., Eckert, J., Hanus, D., Lugauer, B., Holtmann, J., & Haun, D. B. M. (2022). Probing the structure, stability and predictability of great ape cognition. PsyArXiv. |
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Margiotoudi, K., Bohn, M., Schwob, N., Taglialatela, J., Pulvermüller, F., Epping, A., Schweller, K., & Allritz, M. (2022). Bo-NO-bouba-kiki: picture-word mapping but no spontaneous sound symbolic speech-shape mapping in a language trained bonobo. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289(1968), 20211717. |
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Eckert, J., Bohn, M., & Spaethe, J. (2022). Does quantity matter to a stingless bee? Animal Cognition, 25, 617-629. |
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ManyPrimates, Altschul, D., Bohn, M., Canteloup, C., Ebel, S., Hanus, D., Hernandez-Aguilar, R. A., Joly, M., Keupp, S., Petkov, C., Llorente, M., O'Madagain, C., Proctor, D., Motes-Rodrigo, A., Sutherland, K., Szabelska, A., Taylor, D., Völter, C., & Wiggenhauser, N. G. (2022). Collaboration and open science initiatives in primate research. In B. L. Schwartz, & M. J. Beran ( |
Brooks, J., Onishi, E., Clark, I. R., Bohn, M., & Yamamoto, S. (2021). Uniting against a common enemy: Perceived outgroup threat elicits ingroup cohesion in chimpanzees. PLoS One, 16(2): e0246869. |
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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. (2021). Analytic reproducibility in articles receiving open data badges at the journal Psychological Science: An observational study. Royal Society Open Science, 8(1): 201494. |
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Bohn, M., Tessler, M., Merrick, M., & Frank, M. (2021). How young children integrate information sources to infer the meaning of words. Nature Human Behaviour, 8(5), 1046-1054. |
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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. |
Bohn, M., Call, J., & Völter, C. J. (2020). Evolutionary precursors of negation in non-human reasoning. In V. Déprez, & M. Espinal ( |
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Bohn, M., Le, K., Peloquin, B., Koymen, B., & Frank, M. C. (2020). Children's interpretation of ambiguous pronouns based on prior discourse. PsyArXiv. |
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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. |
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Bohn, M., & Frank, M. C. (2019). The pervasive role of pragmatics in early language. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 1, 223-249. |
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ManyPrimates, 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. |
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Margiotoudi, K., Allritz, M., Bohn, M., & Pulvermüller, F. (2019). Sound symbolic congruency detection in humans but not in great apes. Scientific Reports, 9: 12705. |
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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. |
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Jasbi, M., Bohn, M., Long, B., Fourtassi, A., Barner, D., & Frank, M. C. (2019). Comment on Cesana-Arlotti et al. (2018). PsyArXiv. |
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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 ( |
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ManyPrimates, 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. |
Bohn, M., Zimmermann, L., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2018). The social-cognitive basis of infants' reference to absent entities. Cognition, 177, 41-48. |
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Bohn, M., & Köymen, B. (2018). Common ground and development. Child Development Perspectives, 12(2), 104-108. |
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. |
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Bohn, M., Allritz, M., Call, J., & Völter, C. J. (2017). Information seeking about tool properties in great apes. Scientific Reports, 7: 10923. |
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Bohn, M. (2017). Information and the evolution of human communication. In W. Hofkirchner ( |
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Bohn, M., & Stöber, G. (2017). Soziale Determinanten menschlicher Kommunikation. In Max Planck Society ( |
Bohn, M., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Comprehension of iconic gestures by chimpanzees and human children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 142, 1-17. |
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Bohn, M. (2016). Social cognition and human communication: Reference to absent entities in great apes and human infants. PhD Thesis, Univ., Leipzig. |
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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. |
Bohn, M., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Communication about absent entities in great apes and human infants. Cognition, 145, 63-72. |
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. |
Research Awards & Funding
| 2017-2020 | ERC Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship |
| 2013-2016 | Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
