Cultural Evolution
Cultural traditions, such as language and music, arise from complex cultural processes of human interaction and the transmission of knowledge. My work examines such processes by combining computational methods with cultural transmission experiments in complex production modalities, such as music and art. For example, I study how music changes over time as it is orally transmitted across participants, and how such dynamics are shaped by selection processes and underlying network structures.
Manuel Anglada Tort
Lecturer in Psychology
I am a Lecturer in Psychology and Director of the MSc in Music, Mind, and Brain at Goldsmiths, University of London. I am interested in understanding the psychological and cultural foundations of complex human behaviours, such as music and art, and the role they play in society and culture. My research combines methods from cross-cultural psychology, neuroscience, machine learning, music cognition, empirical aesthetics, and computational social science.
