Profile
Dr Monica Tamariz
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Edinburgh Campus
- Department
- Psychology
- Subject areas
- Psychology
- M.Tamariz@hw.ac.uk
- Accepting PhD Students
- Yes
Research
Research
Research
Research interests
I am interested in the cultural evolution of culture. An area I have worked in is language evolution. I investigate the contribution of social and cultural processes (transmission, communication) on the emergence of linguistic structure. I use transmission chain experiments and computer simulations. I am also interested in cultural-evolutionary explanations of other human communication systems, for instance the system used by Argentine tango dancers, and of other cultural domains, such as technology or art.
Areas of expertise
- Psychology
- Language evolution
- Cultural evolution
- Transmission chain experiments
- Iterated learning experiments
- Experimental semiotics
Other keywords
- BF Psychology
- cultural evolution; language evolution; cultural transmission
- dynamics
- humans
- information
- INIS
- learning
- levels
- origin
- populations
- transmission