Limor Raviv

Dr. Limor Raviv is a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow's School of Psychology & Neuroscience and Group Leader of the LEADS Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Her research focuses on language evolution, cultural evolution, and cognitive pressures shaping linguistic diversity. She employs behavioral paradigms and computational models to explore communicative and cognitive factors influencing language structure.

• Affiliations: University of Glasgow (Lecturer), Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Group Leader)
• Education: BSc in Mathematics & Cognitive Science (Hebrew University), MSc in Cognitive Science (Hebrew University), PhD in Psycholinguistics (MPI Nijmegen)

Research interests include animal cognition, child development, AI, and open science. She leads the LEADS Group, advancing studies on self-domestication and language evolution through interdisciplinary methods. Her work bridges cognitive science, linguistics, and robotics, with publications in Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and others.