Gladez Shorland
Research interest
Inference and audience awareness in bonobos (Pan paniscus)
My research interests lie in social cognition and communication in non-human primates and more specifically our closer relatives, the great apes.
This research is part of a broad project investigating the evolutionary origins of human language through a comparative approach.
For my PhD I will be carrying out experimental and observational methods to investigate both the inferential abilities of bonobos and how audience awareness can influence their signal production. Furthermore, I will be investigating certain aspects of social learning in this species.
