Vita

  • since 2023 Associate Professor for Developmental Psychology
    Institute for Psychology, Leuphana University Lüneburg
  • 2020 – 2023 Group Leader (Senior Scientist), Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
  • 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, Germany
  • 2013 – 2016 PhD Student, Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Projects

  1. LEVANTE Downward Extension
    Manuel Bohn (Project manager, academic)

    Project: Research

  2. A Global Developmental Psychology
    Manuel Bohn (Project manager, academic)

    Project: Research

  3. Quantifying children’s everyday experiences
    Manuel Bohn (Project manager, academic)

    Project: Individual grant

  4. Testing children’s role in the (r)evolution of language
    Manuel Bohn (Project manager, academic) , Ailis Cournane (Project manager, academic)

    Project: Research

  5. Symbolic literacy: Young children’s developing understanding of the relation between symbol and referent in the graphic domain
    Anne Deiglmayr (Project manager, academic) , Gregor Kachel (Project manager, academic) , Manuel Bohn (Partner)

    Project: Research

Publications

Journal contributions

  1. Peek a boo! Information seeking about food and functionality in capuchin monkeys
    E. J. Jordan (Author) , M. Allritz (Author) , Manuel Bohn (Author) , C. J. Völter (Author) , Amanda M. Seed (Author) , 01.12.2025 , in: Animal Cognition, 28, 1 , 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. PREVIC: An adaptive parent report measure of expressive vocabulary in children between 3 and 8 years of age
    Manuel Bohn (Author) , Julia Prein (Author) , Jonas Engicht (Author) , Daniel Haun (Author) , Natalia Gagarina (Author) , Tobias Koch (Author) , 01.03.2025 , in: Behavior Research Methods, 57, 3 , 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Pragmatics as Social Inference About Intentional Action
    Manuel Bohn (Author) , Michael C. Frank (Author) , 08.02.2025 , in: Open Mind, 9 , p. 290-304 , 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. 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)
    Julia Prein (Author) , Manuel Bohn (Author) , Florian M. Bednarski (Author) , Ardain Dzabatou (Author) , Michael C. Frank (Author) , Annette M. E. Henderson (Author) , Josefine Kalbitz (Author) , Patricia Kanngiesser (Author) , Dilara Kessafoglu (Author) , Bahar Koymen (Author) , Maira V. Manrique-Hernandez (Author) , Shirley Magazi (Author) , Lizbeth Mujica-Manrique (Author) , Julia Ohlendorf (Author) , Damilola Olaoba (Author) , Wesley R. Pieters (Author) , Sarah Pope-Caldwell (Author) , Umay Sen (Author) , Katie Slocombe (Author) , Robert Z. Sparks (Author) , Roman Stengelin (Author) , Jahnavi Sunderarajan (Author) , Kirsten Sutherland (Author) , Florence Tusiime (Author) , Wilson Vieira (Author) , Zhen Zhang (Author) , Yufei Zong (Author) , Daniel B. M. Haun (Author) , 01.01.2025 , in: Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8, 1 , 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Variation in gaze following across the life span: A process-level perspective
    Julia Prein (Author) , Manuel Bohn (Author) , Luke Maurits (Author) , Annika Werwach (Author) , Daniel B.M. Haun (Author) , 01.11.2024 , in: Developmental Science, 27, 6 , 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Computer Vision for Analyzing Children’s Lived Experiences
    Manuel Bohn (Author) , Anam Zahra (Author) , Pierre Etienne Martin (Author) , Daniel Haun (Author) , 01.01.2024 Cham , p. 376-383 , 8 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  2. Collaboration and Open Science Initiatives in Primate Research
    Manuel Bohn (Author) , Drew Altschul (Author) , Charlotte Canteloup (Author) , Sonja J. Ebel (Author) , Daniel Hanus (Author) , R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar (Author) , Marine Joly (Author) , Stefanie Keupp (Author) , Miquel Llorente (Author) , Cathal O’madagain (Author) , Christopher I. Petkov (Author) , Darby Proctor (Author) , Alba Motes-Rodrigo (Author) , Kirsten Sutherland (Author) , Anna Szabelska (Author) , Derry Taylor (Author) , Christoph J. Völter (Author) , Nicolás G. Wiggenhauser (Author) , 31.08.2022 , p. 584-608 , 25 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesChapterResearchpeer-review

  3. Evolutionary Precursors of Negation in Non-Human Reasoning
    Manuel Bohn (Author) , Josep Call (Author) , Christoph J. Völter (Author) , 07.05.2020 , p. 577-588 , 12 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesChapterResearch

  4. Integrating Common Ground and Informativeness in Pragmatic Word Learning
    Manuel Bohn (Author) , Michael Henry Tessler (Author) , Michael C. Frank (Author) , 01.01.2019 , p. 152-158 , 7 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  5. Information and the evolution of human communication
    Manuel Bohn (Author) , 01.05.2017 , p. 345-362 , 18 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesChapterResearchpeer-review

Activities

  1. Congress of the German Psychological Society : view on / of science
    Manuel Bohn (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference PresentationsResearch

  2. Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development
    Manuel Bohn (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference PresentationsResearch

  3. Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology
    Manuel Bohn (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference PresentationsResearch

  4. A longitudinal study of great ape cognition: Stability, reliability and the influence of individual characteristics
    Manuel Bohn (Speaker) , Johanna Eckert (Speaker) , Daniel Hanus (Speaker) , Daniel B.M. Haun (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference PresentationsResearch

  5. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
    Manuel Bohn (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference PresentationsResearch

Press / Media

  1. Mein Körper. Meine Worte. Sprachwunder Mensch
    1 time cited

    Press/Media: Press/Media

  2. Elefant, Tiger & Co. (704) Geschichten aus dem Leipziger Zoo
    1 time cited

    Press/Media: Press/Media

  3. Große Fragen in 10 Minuten
    1 time cited

    Press/Media: Press/Media

  4. Primatenforschung - Nicht immer nur Schimpansen!
    1 time cited

    Press/Media: Press/Media

  5. Kinder können bei Bedarf eine neue Sprache entwickeln
    1 time cited

    Press/Media: Press/Media

Prizes

  1. Disciplinary Diversity & Integration Award in Cognitive Science
    Manuel Bohn (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointmentsResearch

  2. Performance scholarship of University of Vienna
    Manuel Bohn (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointmentsResearch

Courses