Vanessa Ferdinand

Ideology, communication and polarization

Yoshihisa Kashima, Andrew Perfors, Vanessa Ferdinand, Elle Pattenden

Journal article  |  2021  |  PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ideologically committed minds form the basis of political polarization, but ideologically guided communication can further entrenc..

Zipf’s law of abbreviation and common ground: Past communicative success hampers the re-optimization of language

JC Kuek, V Ferdinand

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Comparative Cognition: Animal Minds, CogSci 2021

Inferring an Observer's Prediction Strategy in Sequence Learning Experiments

Abhinuv Uppal, Vanessa Ferdinand, Sarah Marzen

Journal article  |  2020  |  ENTROPY

Cognitive systems exhibit astounding prediction capabilities that allow them to reap rewards from regularities in their environmen..

The evolution of category systems within and between learners

V Ferdinand, A Perfors

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings for the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020

Dynamics of beneficial epidemics.

Andrew Berdahl, Christa Brelsford, Caterina De Bacco, Marion Dumas, Vanessa Ferdinand, Joshua A Grochow, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Yoav Kallus, Christopher P Kempes, Artemy Kolchinsky, Daniel B Larremore, Eric Libby, Eleanor A Power, Caitlin A Stern, Brendan D Tracey

Journal article  |  2019  |  Sci Rep

Pathogens can spread epidemically through populations. Beneficial contagions, such as viruses that enhance host survival or techno..

Rethinking animal social complexity measures with the help of complex systems concepts

Elizabeth A Hobson, Vanessa Ferdinand, Artemy Kolchinsky, Joshua Garland

Journal article  |  2019  |  ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Explaining how and why some species evolved to have more complex social structures than others has been a long-term goal for many ..

The cognitive roots of regularization in language.

Vanessa Ferdinand, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Journal article  |  2019  |  Cognition

Regularization occurs when the output a learner produces is less variable than the linguistic data they observed. In an artificial..

A Natural History of Human Morality by Michael Tomasello, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. 208 pp.

Vanessa Ferdinand

Journal article  |  2018  |  American Anthropologist

The coevolution of data and hypotheses in bayesian cultural evolution

Vanessa Ferdinand

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang12)

THE ORIGINS OF REGULARITY IN LANGUAGE: WHY COORDINATION MATTERS

CAROLINE KAMPS, VANESSA FERDINAND, SIMON KIRBY

Conference Proceedings  |  2014  |  The Evolution of Language