Manuel Bohn

I'm a tenure-track assistant professor of Developmental Psychology at the Institute of Psychology in Education at Leuphana University Lüneburg. I'm 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 across cultural settings. For a broader perspective, I 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 learn language.

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Email: manuel[dot]bohn[at]leuphana[dot]de

Publications

Preprints

Bohn, M., & Frank, M. C. (2024). Pragmatics as social inference about intentional action. PsyArXiv.

*Bohn, M., *Prein, J. C., Ayikoru, A., Bednarski, F. M., Dzabatou, A., Frank, M. C., ... *Stengelin, R., & *Haun, D. B. M. (2024). A universal of human social cognition: Children from 17 communities process gaze in similar ways. PsyArXiv.

Prein, J. C., Bednarski, F. M., Dzabatou, A., Frank, M. C., Henderson, A. M. E., Kalbitz, J., ... Bohn, M. (2024). Measuring variation in gaze following across communities, ages, and individuals - a showcase of the TANGO-CC. PsyArXiv.

Bohn, M., Prein, J., Engicht, J., Haun, D. B. M., Gagarina, N., & Koch, T. (2023). PREVIC: An adaptive parent report measure of expressive vocabulary in children between 3 and 8 years of age. PsyArXiv.

Jasbi, M., Bohn, M., Long, B., Fourtassi, A., Barner, D., & Frank, M. C. (2019). Comment on Cesana-Arlotti et al. (2018). PsyArXiv.

Registered reports

Schuwerk, T., Kampis, D., Baillargeon, R., Biro, S., Bohn, M., , Byers-Heinlein, K., ... Rakoczy, H. (accpeted pending data collection). Action anticipation based on an agent's epistemic state in toddlers and adults. Child Development.

2024

Bohn, M., Fong, F., Pope-Caldwell, S., Stengelin, R., & Haun, D. (2024). Understanding cultural variation in cognition one child at a time. Nature Reviews Psychology.

Prein, J., 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.

Franke, M., Bohn, M. & Fröhlich, M. (2024). Latent meaning representations in great-ape gestural communication. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Stengelin, R., Bohn, M., Sanchez-Amaro, A., Haun, D. B. M., Thiele, M., Daum, M. 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.

Bohn, M., da Silva Vieira, W. F., Giner-Torréns, M., Kärtner, J., Itakura, S., Cavalcante, L., Haun, D., Koster, M., & Kanngiesser, P. (2024). Mealtime conversations between parents and their 2-year-old children in five cultural contexts. Developmental Psychology.

Prein, J. C., Kalinke, S., *Haun, D., & *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, 2469-2485.

*Bohn, M., *Prein, J. C., Koch, T., Bee, R. M., Delikaya, B., Haun, D., & Gagarina, N. (2024). oREV: an Item Response Theory based open receptive vocabulary task for 3 to 8-year-old children. Behavior Research Methods, 56, 2595-2605.

2023

Steffan, A., Zimmer, L., Arias-Trejo, N., Bohn, M., Dal Ben, R., Flores-Coronado, M. A., ... Schuwerk, T. (2023). Validation of an Open Source, Remote Web-based Eye-tracking Method (WebGazer) for Research in Early Childhood. Infancy.

Bohn, M., Eckert, J., Hanus, D., Lugauer, B., Holtmann, J., & Haun, D. (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., Kordt, C., Hausmann, T., & Frank, M. C. (2023). An individual differences perspective on pragmatic abilities in the preschool years. Developmental Science, 26, e13401.

*Bang, J., *Bohn, M., Ramirez, J., Marchman, V., & 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, 26, e13354.

2022

Bohn, M., Schmidt, L. S., Schulze, C., Frank, M. C., & Tessler, M. H. (2022). Modeling individual differences in children's information integration during pragmatic word learning. Open Mind, 6, 311-326.

ManyPrimates, et al. (2022). The evolution of primate short-term memory. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 9(4), 428-516.

Bohn, M., Liebal, K. & Tessler, M. H. (2022). Great ape communication as contextual social inference: a computational modeling perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377, 20210096.

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.

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, 289, 20211717.

ManyPrimates, et al. (2022). Collaboration and Open Science Initiatives in Primate Research. In M. J. Beran & B. Schwartz (Eds.), Primate Cognitive Studies : Cambridge University Press.

Eckert, J., Bohn, M., & Spaethe, J. (2022). Does quantity matter to a stingless bee?. Animal Cognition, 25, 617-629.

2021

Bohn, M., Eckert, J., Hanus, D., & Haun, D. (2021). A longitudinal study of great ape cognition: stability, reliability and the influence of individual characteristics. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

*Bohn, M., *Tessler, M. H., Merrick, M., & Frank, M. C. (2021). How young children integrate information sources to infer the meaning of words. Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 1046-1054.

Bohn, M., Le, K., Peloquin, B., Koymen, B., & Frank, M. C. (2021). Children's interpretation of ambiguous pronouns based on prior discourse. Developmental Science, 24, e13049.

Brooks, J., Onishi, E., Clark, I., Bohn, M., & Yamamoto, S. (2021). Uniting against a common enemy: Perceived outgroup threat elicits ingroup cohesion in chimpanzees. PLoS ONE, 16(2), e0246869.

Kachel, G., Hardecker, D., & Bohn, M. (2021). Young children's developing ability to integrate gestural and emotional cues. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 210, 104984.

Hardwicke, T. E., Bohn, M., MacDonald, K. E., Hembacher, E., Nuijten, M. B., Peloquin, B., ... Frank, M. C. (2021). Analytic reproducibility in articles receiving open data badges at Psychological Science: An observational study. Royal Society Open Science, 8, 201494.

2020

Bohn, M., Kordt, C., Braun, M., Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2020). Learning novel skills from iconic gestures: A developmental and evolutionary perspective. Psychological Science, 31(7), 873-880.

Bohn, M., Call, J. & Völter, C. (2020). Evolutionary precursors of negation in non-human reasoning. In V. Deprez & M.T. Espinal (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Negation (pp. 577-588): Oxford University Press.

Tauzin, T., Bohn, M., Gergely, G., & Call, J. (2020). Context-sensitive adjustment of pointing in great apes. Scientific Reports, 10, 1048.

2019

Bohn, M., & Frank, M. C. (2019). The pervasive role of pragmatics in early language. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 1, 223-249.

*Bohn, M., *Kachel, G., & Tomasello, M. (2019). Young children spontaneously recreate core properties of language in a new modality. PNAS, 116(51), 26072-26077.

ManyPrimates, et al. (2019). Collaborative open science as a way to reproducibility and new insights in primate cognition research. Japanese Psychological Review, 62(3), 205-220.

ManyPrimates, et al. (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., & Frank, M. C. (2019). Integrating common ground and informativeness in pragmatic word learning. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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, e12757.

2018

Bohn, M., Zimmermann, L., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2018). The social-cognitive basis of infants' reference to absent entities. Cognition, 177, 41-48.

Bohn, M., & Köymen, B. (2018). Common Ground and Development. Child Development Perspectives, 12(2), 104-108.

2017

Bohn, M., Allritz, M., Call, J., & Völter, C. J. (2017). Information seeking about tool properties in great apes. Scientific Reports, 7, 10923.

Schmelz, M., Duguid, S., Bohn, M., & Völter, C. (2017). Cooperative problem solving in giant otters (Pteronura brasiliensis) and Asian small-clawed otters (Aonyx cinerea). Animal Cognition, 20: 1107.

2016

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. (2016). Comprehension of iconic gestures by chimpanzees and human children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 142, 1-17.

2015

Bohn, M., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Communication about absent entities in great apes and human infants. Cognition, 145, 63-72.

2013

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), 629-34

Talks on the web

BCCCD 2020: The development of pragmatic reasoning from multiple information sources

Wilhelm Wundt Dialogue: Introduction to "The puzzle of language acquisition" (Michael C. Frank & Caroline Rowland)