Dear Students!
Next week we will have the last speaker
in our seminar series - unfortunately Michael Ferkin has cancelled for
the 21st of November. Stephen Blatti will explore issues of cognitive
skills like self awareness, consciousness, theory of mind, and evidence
for these skills in the animal kingdom. The reading materials will show
you again how different opinions on this topic are - what do YOU
believe? "Believe" is the right word here because at this point "evidence" can be interpreted in different ways!
Our presenters for this week will be:
Stefano: Se Gracia - Self-Awareness in Animals
Abby: Penn et al Part 1: the first 31 pages
Kenneth: Penn et al Part 2: the rest
Have fun!
cheers
Uli
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Friday, November 2, 2012
Dear Students!
Next week Gallagher will present arguments on what's known as the "motor theory of language" - meaning, language evolved from gestures first, not vocalizations - a hotly debated topic, as you can imagine!
Our presenters will be:
Jeremy: Gallagher 05
Yuna: Arbib 05 from page 1 to page 27 (up to Fabrega's comment)
Keith: Arbib 05 from page 27 on (starting with Fabrega's comment)
Just in case you haven't hear it yet, check out this amazing footage of an Korean Elephant imitating human speech!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
This is another case of an aquatic animal imitating human speech (I assume you all got the beluga video from last week!) -
I love it!
Since we only have 3 talks left in our series, I started adding up your presentations that you did so far in order to distribute the rest of the paper presentations in such a way that everybody ends up with a fair share!
I assigned the rest of the papers in the following way:
Blatti 14th November:
Presenters:
Abby: Penn et al. Part one (30 pages)
Kenneth: Penn et el. part two (30 pages)
Stefano: De Garcia -Selfawareness
Ferkin 21st of November:
Presenter:
ChiaCheng: MF Folia Zool 2011 and MF Nature 04
Stefano: MF J Ethology 2007
These BBS papers that we talked about last time will show you how little agreement there is in the scientific community on these topics - which is a reflection, of course, of how little we know about these things yet - lots of room to speculate in every direction!
Have fun!
Uli
Next week Gallagher will present arguments on what's known as the "motor theory of language" - meaning, language evolved from gestures first, not vocalizations - a hotly debated topic, as you can imagine!
Our presenters will be:
Jeremy: Gallagher 05
Yuna: Arbib 05 from page 1 to page 27 (up to Fabrega's comment)
Keith: Arbib 05 from page 27 on (starting with Fabrega's comment)
Just in case you haven't hear it yet, check out this amazing footage of an Korean Elephant imitating human speech!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
This is another case of an aquatic animal imitating human speech (I assume you all got the beluga video from last week!) -
I love it!
Since we only have 3 talks left in our series, I started adding up your presentations that you did so far in order to distribute the rest of the paper presentations in such a way that everybody ends up with a fair share!
I assigned the rest of the papers in the following way:
Blatti 14th November:
Presenters:
Abby: Penn et al. Part one (30 pages)
Kenneth: Penn et el. part two (30 pages)
Stefano: De Garcia -Selfawareness
Ferkin 21st of November:
Presenter:
ChiaCheng: MF Folia Zool 2011 and MF Nature 04
Stefano: MF J Ethology 2007
These BBS papers that we talked about last time will show you how little agreement there is in the scientific community on these topics - which is a reflection, of course, of how little we know about these things yet - lots of room to speculate in every direction!
Have fun!
Uli
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Dear Students!
For Halloween - the 31st of October - we will have Stan Kuczaj as a guest speaker to tell us all about "Why can't we speak with dolphins"!
Our presenters for this week will be:
ChiaCheng: Kucjay&Kirkpatrick and Xitco et al.
Kenneth: dolphin play signal -paper and dolphins exchange signature whistles-paper
As usual, you will find these papers on the UMdrive.
Check out Stan'swebsite to see all the other interesting topics Stan is working on with dolphins!
http://www.usm.edu/
Have fun!
cheers
Uli
For Halloween - the 31st of October - we will have Stan Kuczaj as a guest speaker to tell us all about "Why can't we speak with dolphins"!
Our presenters for this week will be:
ChiaCheng: Kucjay&Kirkpatrick and Xitco et al.
Kenneth: dolphin play signal -paper and dolphins exchange signature whistles-paper
As usual, you will find these papers on the UMdrive.
Check out Stan'swebsite to see all the other interesting topics Stan is working on with dolphins!
http://www.usm.edu/
Have fun!
cheers
Uli
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Dear Students!
Next week we will have a speaker who is one of the most important researchers in the field of animal cognition and communication - Irene Pepperberg! She will tell us about the amazing things a "bird brain" is able to do. Please check out the numerous you-tube clips on Alex the parrot and his colleagues!
Our presenters will be:
Stefano: Pepperberg&Gibson&Tallerman
Yuna: BrainBehaviorReview
Jeremy: Brain&Language Alex 2010a
As usual, you will find these papers on the UMdrive.
Have fun!
Uli
Next week we will have a speaker who is one of the most important researchers in the field of animal cognition and communication - Irene Pepperberg! She will tell us about the amazing things a "bird brain" is able to do. Please check out the numerous you-tube clips on Alex the parrot and his colleagues!
Our presenters will be:
Stefano: Pepperberg&Gibson&Tallerman
Yuna: BrainBehaviorReview
Jeremy: Brain&Language Alex 2010a
As usual, you will find these papers on the UMdrive.
Have fun!
Uli
Monday, October 15, 2012
Dear Students!
This week we will get an overview about the anatomical facts - why non-human primates cannot produce speech, even if they try really hard - remember Vicki, the chimp?
Our presenters for this time are:
Yuna - Schultz et al. 05
Abby - Juergens 2009
You will find the papers again on the UMdrive, as usual!
have fun!
Uli
This week we will get an overview about the anatomical facts - why non-human primates cannot produce speech, even if they try really hard - remember Vicki, the chimp?
Our presenters for this time are:
Yuna - Schultz et al. 05
Abby - Juergens 2009
You will find the papers again on the UMdrive, as usual!
have fun!
Uli
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Dear Students!
So far, so good - now that we know quite a bit about modeling in this field, we will continue with a dip into the evo-devo research - one of the most exciting fields at the moment. Peter Lafreniere will give us an overview about this topic and talk about its relevance for the evolution of communication on the 10th of October.
Our presenters for this next seminar will be:
Keith - Kirby (evolution of language)
Stefano LaFreniere (the arrival of the fittest)
Yuna (DevReview 2012)
As usual, you will find these papers on the UMdrive. There are other papers in the folder that Peter recommended, as well as a book recommendation for people who want to go deeper, but only the three papers assigned above are obligatory to read.
Enjoy!!
Uli
So far, so good - now that we know quite a bit about modeling in this field, we will continue with a dip into the evo-devo research - one of the most exciting fields at the moment. Peter Lafreniere will give us an overview about this topic and talk about its relevance for the evolution of communication on the 10th of October.
Our presenters for this next seminar will be:
Keith - Kirby (evolution of language)
Stefano LaFreniere (the arrival of the fittest)
Yuna (DevReview 2012)
As usual, you will find these papers on the UMdrive. There are other papers in the folder that Peter recommended, as well as a book recommendation for people who want to go deeper, but only the three papers assigned above are obligatory to read.
Enjoy!!
Uli
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Dear Students!
After this pretty intense excursion into the realm of modeling we will continue next week with Rick Dale, who will try to convince us that even though language does not fossilize (in the early stages), we can play detectives and find cues for mechanisms and constraints that might have been important in the evolution of language. There will be a little bit of modeling involved again, but after Anne's crash course last week you are all pros now - at least you have a more concrete idea now what modeling is all about.
Our presenters for this time are:
Keith - Christiansen-Dale 2003
also Keith - Dale-Lupian 2012
Stefano - Lewontin 89
Abby - Lupian-Dale 2010
You will find the papers again on the UMdrive, as usual!
have fun!
Uli
After this pretty intense excursion into the realm of modeling we will continue next week with Rick Dale, who will try to convince us that even though language does not fossilize (in the early stages), we can play detectives and find cues for mechanisms and constraints that might have been important in the evolution of language. There will be a little bit of modeling involved again, but after Anne's crash course last week you are all pros now - at least you have a more concrete idea now what modeling is all about.
Our presenters for this time are:
Keith - Christiansen-Dale 2003
also Keith - Dale-Lupian 2012
Stefano - Lewontin 89
Abby - Lupian-Dale 2010
You will find the papers again on the UMdrive, as usual!
have fun!
Uli
Monday, September 24, 2012
Dear students!
Our next speaker for the 26th of September will be Anne Warlamount and she will tell us about modeling in communication and language evolution, which is a really interesting topic! You will find the assigned paper (just one, but rather long) on the UMdrive, as usual.
Jeremy will be our presenter this week!
Have fun!
cheers
Uli
Our next speaker for the 26th of September will be Anne Warlamount and she will tell us about modeling in communication and language evolution, which is a really interesting topic! You will find the assigned paper (just one, but rather long) on the UMdrive, as usual.
Jeremy will be our presenter this week!
Have fun!
cheers
Uli
Friday, September 14, 2012
Dear students!
Even though we lost Trivers, we will have a great speaker and a super-interesting topic for next week - word-learning and cognition in dogs! I already sent the two papers that Andrew Olney wants you to read for his talk by e-mail and they are also on the UMdrive.
Yuna Jhang will present the Pillei & Reid paper and Chia-Cheng Lee will present the Kis et al Paper.
There are lots of video clips on the net that you can watch to see Chaser, the border collie at work - she is awesome!
This one is about the actual experimental conditions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Have fun!
Uli
Even though we lost Trivers, we will have a great speaker and a super-interesting topic for next week - word-learning and cognition in dogs! I already sent the two papers that Andrew Olney wants you to read for his talk by e-mail and they are also on the UMdrive.
Yuna Jhang will present the Pillei & Reid paper and Chia-Cheng Lee will present the Kis et al Paper.
There are lots of video clips on the net that you can watch to see Chaser, the border collie at work - she is awesome!
This one is about the actual experimental conditions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Have fun!
Uli
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Dear students!
Michael Owren will be our next speaker on the topic "A proposed prehistory of language: Laughter evolution and early phonology" on the 12. of September - you can check him out under this website:
https://sites.google.com/site/michaeljowren/
The reading materials for his lecture are on the UMdrive (same website as before).
Chia-Cheng will present the paper: Owren Amoss & Rendall,
and Kenneth will present the paper: Owren et al in press
Presenters, please let me know if you want to do a PowerPoint presentation - as we learned the hard way, there is nothing set up beforehand in our room, so I will need to do that! And, please, bring a memory stick and/or your computer with the presentation.
Since the amount of reading material will vary quite a bit over the course you might want to read ahead, so you don't have such a big task every time the readings are a little longer.
If there are still questions about the last two topics feel free to ask!
cheers
Uli
Michael Owren will be our next speaker on the topic "A proposed prehistory of language: Laughter evolution and early phonology" on the 12. of September - you can check him out under this website:
https://sites.google.com/site/michaeljowren/
The reading materials for his lecture are on the UMdrive (same website as before).
Chia-Cheng will present the paper: Owren Amoss & Rendall,
and Kenneth will present the paper: Owren et al in press
Presenters, please let me know if you want to do a PowerPoint presentation - as we learned the hard way, there is nothing set up beforehand in our room, so I will need to do that! And, please, bring a memory stick and/or your computer with the presentation.
Since the amount of reading material will vary quite a bit over the course you might want to read ahead, so you don't have such a big task every time the readings are a little longer.
If there are still questions about the last two topics feel free to ask!
cheers
Uli
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Welcome students!
This is the blog for the Cognitive Science Seminar at the University of Memphis for fall 2012.
On this blog you can post your responses to readings, which will also be distributed on the blog.
https://umdrive.memphis.edu/og
You will need your email uid and password to access this and other readings.
cheers
Uli
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