Ross Towns
PhD candidate
- Name
- Mr. R.J. Towns MSc
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- r.j.towns@liacs.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-8925-2498
I am a PhD candidate studying the roles of cooperation, social cognition and community structure in the emergence of linguistic systems, in order to make inferences about the evolution of language in early humans. To do this, I use a variety of methods, including lab experiments and computational models, drawing on findings from cognitive science, linguistics and evolutionary anthropology.
PhD candidate
- Science
- Leiden Inst of Advanced Computer Science
- Kouwenhoven T., Towns R.J. & Verhoef T. (2022), Modelling the emergence of vocal grooming. Ravignani A., Asano R., Valente D., Ferreti F., Hartmann S., Hayashi M., Jadoul Y., Martins M., Oseki Y., Rodrigues E.D., Vasileva O. & Wacewicz S. (Eds.), Proceedings of the joint conference on language evolution (JCoLE). Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE) 5 September 2022 - 5 September 2022. Joint Conference on Language Evolution. Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. 434-436.
- Towns R.J., Gómez-Maureira M.A., Sommer K., Duijn M.J. van & Verhoef T. (2020), The evolution of spatial devices in gestural storytelling. Ravignani A., Barbieri C., Jadoul Y., Lattenkamp E., Martins M., Flaherty M., Mudd K., Little H. & Verhoef T. (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference (Evolang13) . 13th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EvoLang13) 14 April 2020 - 17 April 2020. Nijmegen, The Netherlands: The Evolution of Language Conferences. 454-456.