Dr Vanessa Ferdinand
Honorary (Senior Fellow)
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
17 Scholarly works
4 Projects
HIGHLIGHTS
2025
Book Chapter
The Bayesian iterated learning model
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192886491.013.152025
Research grants (other domestic)
2024 Research Impetus Grants \2014 2024RIG041
2023
Journal article
Inferring the decision rules that drive co-foraging affiliations in wild mixed-species parrot groups
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.01012021
Research Contracts
Information Warfare Enhancement
2021
Journal article
Ideology, communication and polarization
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.01332021
Conference Proceedings
Zipf’s law of abbreviation and common ground: Past communicative success hampers the re-optimization of language
2019
Research Grant
Minimal Models of Sensory Perception
RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS
2020
Journal article
Inferring an observer's prediction strategy in sequence learning experiments
DOI: 10.3390/E220808962020
Conference Proceedings
The evolution of category systems within and between learners
2019
Journal article
Dynamics of beneficial epidemics
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-50039-w2019
Journal article
Rethinking animal social complexity measures with the help of complex systems concepts
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.05.0162019
Journal article
The cognitive roots of regularization in language
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.12.0022018
Journal article
A Natural History of Human Morality by Michael Tomasello, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. 208 pp.
DOI: 10.1111/aman.12980
RECENT PROJECTS
2025
Research grants (international)
Formation of New Cooperative Relationships in Vampire Bats - Individual Traits, Partner Choice, and Network Dynamics- Modeling the Effects of Social Dynamics on Possibilities for Cooperation