Dr Limor Raviv

  • Lecturer in Social Interactions (Centre for Social, Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience)

Research interests

Why are there so many different languages in the word? How did this astonishing linguistic diversity come about? And what are the social, environmental, and cognitive pressures that shape the evolution of language in our species?

These are some of the most fascinating questions in cognitive science and linguistics, and represent the range of topics in my research so far.

My work focuses on linking core aspects of cultural evolution and language learning using a range of novel behavioral paradigms and computational models. With these methods, I try to shed light on the communicative pressures and cognitive constraints that shape social interaction and language use, and to identify the social, environmental, and cross-cultural factors that lead to language diversity and cross-linguistic variation.

Besides language evolution, I am also interested in animal cognition and communication, child development, psycholinguistics, AI and swarm robotics, data analysis, and open science.

See all publications at: https://www.limorravivevolang.com

Publications

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2023

Raghavan, R., Raviv, L. and Peeters, D. (2023) What's your point? Insights from virtual reality on the relation between intention and action in the production of pointing gestures. Cognition, 240, 105581. (doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105581)

Raviv, L. , Jacobson, S. L., Plotnik, J. M., Bowman, J., Lynch, V. and Benítez-Burraco, A. (2023) Elephants as an animal model for self-domestication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(15), e220860712. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2208607120) (PMID:37011191)

2022

Raviv, L. , Lupyan, G. and Green, S. C. (2022) How variability shapes learning and generalization. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(6), pp. 462-483. (doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2022.03.007) (PMID:35577719)

2021

Raviv, L. , de Heer Kloots, M. and Meyer, A. (2021) What makes a language easy to learn? A preregistered study on how systematic structure and community size affect language learnability. Cognition, 210, 104620. (doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104620) (PMID:33571814)

2020

Raviv, L. , Meyer, A. and Lev‐Ari, S. (2020) The role of social network structure in the emergence of linguistic structure. Cognitive Science, 44(8), e12876. (doi: 10.1111/cogs.12876) (PMID:32808326)

2019

Raviv, L. , Meyer, A. and Lev-Ari, S. (2019) Larger communities create more systematic languages. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 286(1907), 20191262. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1262) (PMID:31311478) (PMCID:PMC6661353)

Raviv, L. , Meyer, A. and Lev-Ari, S. (2019) Compositional structure can emerge without generational transmission. Cognition, 182, pp. 151-164. (doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.09.010) (PMID:30267952)

2018

Raviv, L. and Arnon, I. (2018) Systematicity, but not compositionality: examining the emergence of linguistic structure in children and adults using iterated learning. Cognition, 181, pp. 160-173. (doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.08.011) (PMID:30218912)

Raviv, L. and Arnon, I. (2018) The developmental trajectory of children's auditory and visual statistical learning abilities: modality-based differences in the effect of age. Developmental Science, 21(4), e12593. (doi: 10.1111/desc.12593) (PMID:28901038)

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Number of items: 9.

Articles

Raghavan, R., Raviv, L. and Peeters, D. (2023) What's your point? Insights from virtual reality on the relation between intention and action in the production of pointing gestures. Cognition, 240, 105581. (doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105581)

Raviv, L. , Jacobson, S. L., Plotnik, J. M., Bowman, J., Lynch, V. and Benítez-Burraco, A. (2023) Elephants as an animal model for self-domestication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(15), e220860712. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2208607120) (PMID:37011191)

Raviv, L. , Lupyan, G. and Green, S. C. (2022) How variability shapes learning and generalization. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(6), pp. 462-483. (doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2022.03.007) (PMID:35577719)

Raviv, L. , de Heer Kloots, M. and Meyer, A. (2021) What makes a language easy to learn? A preregistered study on how systematic structure and community size affect language learnability. Cognition, 210, 104620. (doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104620) (PMID:33571814)

Raviv, L. , Meyer, A. and Lev‐Ari, S. (2020) The role of social network structure in the emergence of linguistic structure. Cognitive Science, 44(8), e12876. (doi: 10.1111/cogs.12876) (PMID:32808326)

Raviv, L. , Meyer, A. and Lev-Ari, S. (2019) Larger communities create more systematic languages. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 286(1907), 20191262. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1262) (PMID:31311478) (PMCID:PMC6661353)

Raviv, L. , Meyer, A. and Lev-Ari, S. (2019) Compositional structure can emerge without generational transmission. Cognition, 182, pp. 151-164. (doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.09.010) (PMID:30267952)

Raviv, L. and Arnon, I. (2018) Systematicity, but not compositionality: examining the emergence of linguistic structure in children and adults using iterated learning. Cognition, 181, pp. 160-173. (doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.08.011) (PMID:30218912)

Raviv, L. and Arnon, I. (2018) The developmental trajectory of children's auditory and visual statistical learning abilities: modality-based differences in the effect of age. Developmental Science, 21(4), e12593. (doi: 10.1111/desc.12593) (PMID:28901038)

This list was generated on Mon Sep 25 13:07:00 2023 BST.

Dr Limor Raviv