I am a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Language Evolution under the supervision of Prof Simon Kirby and Prof Jennifer Culbertson.
My research focuses on the question of why humans are so strongly inclined to share their thoughts and feelings with others (also called Mitteilungsbedürfnis), and how this inclination might have shaped, or even driven, the evolution of language.
I am also interested in how our Mitteilungsbedürfnis might be linked to our ability to collaborate with others, both in human evolution and ontogeny.
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