Anna Jon-And
@annajonand.bsky.social
Researcher of language evolution and cultural evolution. Director of the Centre for Cultural Evolution at Stockholm University. Passionate about broad interdisciplinary collaboration, associative learning, simple models and complex systems.
Our comment on Reindl et al.’s sequence discrimination study is out. Their findings actually support the sequence hypothesis, strengthening the case for this potentially powerful explanation of human cognitive and cultural abilities. Happy to see more work pushing this discussion forward!
November 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Our comment on Reindl et al.’s sequence discrimination study is out. Their findings actually support the sequence hypothesis, strengthening the case for this potentially powerful explanation of human cognitive and cultural abilities. Happy to see more work pushing this discussion forward!
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Just submitted a book ms! An edited volume, edited together with super scientist @annajonand.bsky.social. Now I'm going #birding for the rest of the weekend <3
#submissionfriday
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October 31, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Just submitted a book ms! An edited volume, edited together with super scientist @annajonand.bsky.social. Now I'm going #birding for the rest of the weekend <3
#submissionfriday
#submissionfriday
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A bit late on this, but here we explore how cultural information
can guide development of behavior & cognitive skills just like genes. Can cultural evolution result in teaching trajectories that promote incremental acquisition of complex tasks?
#culturalevolution #developmentalpsychology #modelling
can guide development of behavior & cognitive skills just like genes. Can cultural evolution result in teaching trajectories that promote incremental acquisition of complex tasks?
#culturalevolution #developmentalpsychology #modelling
August 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A bit late on this, but here we explore how cultural information
can guide development of behavior & cognitive skills just like genes. Can cultural evolution result in teaching trajectories that promote incremental acquisition of complex tasks?
#culturalevolution #developmentalpsychology #modelling
can guide development of behavior & cognitive skills just like genes. Can cultural evolution result in teaching trajectories that promote incremental acquisition of complex tasks?
#culturalevolution #developmentalpsychology #modelling
New paper! @johanlind.bsky.social and I examine both sequential input representation and sequential output in non-human animals. We question the use of complex anthropocentric models in cases where simpler models based on associative learning make more accurate predictions. doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
Sequences and animal intelligence | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Here, we explore some cognitive mechanisms that support and constrain sequential abilities
in non-human animals (hereafter animals). By examining limits in memory for stimulus
sequences and how behavi...
doi.org
June 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
New paper! @johanlind.bsky.social and I examine both sequential input representation and sequential output in non-human animals. We question the use of complex anthropocentric models in cases where simpler models based on associative learning make more accurate predictions. doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
Funding opportunity in Sweden for researchers established outside Europe! We welcome project suggestions within Cultural Evolution for a one year visit at the Centre for Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University. Contact me if you are interested and feel free to share. www.vr.se/english/appl...
Grant for recruiting international visiting researchers to Sweden
The purpose of the grant is to give higher education institutions and other research organisations the opportunity to develop and strengthen a research field by recruiting, in the near future, a promi...
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June 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Funding opportunity in Sweden for researchers established outside Europe! We welcome project suggestions within Cultural Evolution for a one year visit at the Centre for Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University. Contact me if you are interested and feel free to share. www.vr.se/english/appl...
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Latest from the lab: our theory of how paranoia can be about social things, without dedicated social processing @juliasheffield.bsky.social, Santiago Castiello, Rosa Rossi-Goldthorpe, @praveensuthaharan.bsky.social and @celiaheyes.bsky.social
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June 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Latest from the lab: our theory of how paranoia can be about social things, without dedicated social processing @juliasheffield.bsky.social, Santiago Castiello, Rosa Rossi-Goldthorpe, @praveensuthaharan.bsky.social and @celiaheyes.bsky.social
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Wrote a popular piece with @johanlind.bsky.social on why human language is so different from other animal communication. There’s a growing wave of studies suggesting key features of human language are present among animals. We propose a different perspective:
theconversation.com/animals-cant...
theconversation.com/animals-cant...
Animals can’t talk like humans do – here’s why the hunt for their languages has left us empty-handed
Many scientists see evidence of language in the sounds animals put together, but they may be kidding themselves.
theconversation.com
June 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Wrote a popular piece with @johanlind.bsky.social on why human language is so different from other animal communication. There’s a growing wave of studies suggesting key features of human language are present among animals. We propose a different perspective:
theconversation.com/animals-cant...
theconversation.com/animals-cant...