Leuphana University, Germany

Manuel Bohn is a tenure-track assistant professor of Developmental Psychology at the Institute of Psychology in Education at Leuphana University Lüneburg. He investigates the psychological roots of human communication, focusing on how children’s experiences shape their cognitive development across cultures, as well as studying great apes’ communicative abilities. His aim is to uncover what aspects of human cognition enable language learning in children. For LEVANTE, he is collaborating with the Comparative Cultural Psychology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.