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
Thursday, September 27, 2012
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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