William Tecumseh Sherman Fitch, III
Affiliations: | 1981-1994 | Brown University, Providence, RI | |
| 2002-2003 | Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin | ||
| 2003-2009 | School of Psychology, University of St.Andrews, Scotland, Saint Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom | ||
| 2005-2006 | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany | ||
| 2009- | Cognitive Biology | University of Vienna, Wien, Wien, Austria |
Area:
evolution of language, evolution of musicWebsite:
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"W. Tecumseh Fitch"Bio:
Tecumseh Fitch is a cognitive biologist, and a professor and co-founder of the Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna. Fitch studies the biology and evolution of cognition and communication in vertebrates. He has a particular interest in the evolution of language, music and speech in humans, studied from a broad comparative perspective. Current research foci include bioacoustics, vocal learning, the biology and evolution of rhythm, empirical aesthetics and comparisons of syntactic abilities in different bird and mammal species. He holds a Bachelors in Biology and a PhD in Cognitive Science, both from Brown University. After a post-doc at MIT and Harvard, he lectured at Harvard and the University of St. Andrews before moving to Vienna in 2009. He is a recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant and is an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science
Cross-listing: Evolution Tree - Music Tree
Parents
Sign in to add mentor| Mark D. Bertness | research assistant | Alpert Medical School at Brown University (Marine Ecology Tree) | ||
| Philip Lieberman | grad student | 1989-1994 | Brown | |
| (Vocal tract length perception and the evolution of language) | ||||
| Marc David Hauser | post-doc | 1996-1999 | Harvard & MIT | |
Children
Sign in to add trainee| Marija Spasikova | grad student | 2007- | School of Psychology, University of St.Andrews, Scotland |
| Daniel Liu Bowling | post-doc | University of Vienna (Neurotree) | |
| Miguel Oliveira | research scientist | 2006-2009 | University of St. Andrews |
Collaborators
Sign in to add collaborator| Ricardo Gil-da-Costa | collaborator | Harvard (Neurotree) | |
| Claus Lamm | collaborator | (Neurotree) |
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