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
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