Olivier Morin

• CNRS & Ecole Normale Supérieure-PSL
• Institut Jean Nicod, Dpt of Cognitive sciences

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS:

• Sciences cognitives appliquées à la culture
• Analyse quantitative du changement culturel
• Evolution des systèmes d'écriture
• Transmission culturelle
• communication graphique et digitale

RESEARCH PROJECTS/INITIATIVES:

• Max Planck Independent Research Group "Minds & Traditions" (MPI SHH Jena) : Group Leader https://www.shh.mpg.de/94549/themintgroup
• CNRS RTP (réseau thématique pluridisciplinaire) "Evolutionary Human Sciences": member

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Morin, Olivier 2016, “How Traditions Live and Die”, Cambridge MA: Oxford University Press.
• Morin, Olivier 2018 “Spontaneous Emergence of Legibility in Writing Systems: The Case of Orientation Anisotropy”. Cognitive Science 42(3): 664–677
• Morin, Olivier, Piers Kelly, and James Winters, “Writing, Graphic Codes, and Asynchronous Communication”. Topics in Cognitive Science, 2019
• Pavlek, Barbara, James Winters, and Olivier Morin 2020, “Reverse Engineering Cash: Coin Designs Mark out High Value Differentials and Coin Sizes Track Values Logarithmically”. Cognition 198: 104182
• Winters, James, and Olivier Morin 2019, “From Context to Code: Information Transfer Constrains the Emergence of Graphic Codes”. Cognitive Science: e12722
• Morin, Olivier, James Winters, Thomas Franz Müller, and Tifany Morisseau, “An Overview of the ‘Color Game’ APProject”. SocArXiv,2020 https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/cjaxw/