Neuroscience
- Spindle Neurons In Humpback Whales
from Hof & Van Der Gucht (2006) Spindle Neurons: The Next New Thing? In July, The Neurocritic wrote about a special class of cells found in the anterior cingulate cortex and frontoinsular cortex of humans and great apes. These spindle neurons are...
- Are Elephants Self-aware?
YES: Plotnik JM, de Waal FBM, Reiss D. Self-recognition in an Asian elephant. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. Published online before print October 30, 2006. Considered an indicator of self-awareness, mirror self-recognition (MSR) has long seemed limited to...
- Abstract Of The Day: Social Reasoning And Neuropsychology
Dana Samson, Ian A. Apperly, Umalini Kathirgamanathan and Glyn W. Humphreys. Seeing it my way: A case of a selective deficit in inhibiting self-perspective. Brain 2005 128(5):1102-1111; doi:10.1093/brain/awh464 University of Birmingham, Birmingham,...
- Snakes On The Brain
Great editorial by UC Davis anthropologist Lynne Isbell in yesterday's New York Times about snakes and the evolution of vision in primates. Isbell argues that "[n]ew anthropological evidence suggests that snakes, as predators, may have figured prominently...
- More New Books!
Animal: Definitive visual guide to the world's wildlife; by editors-in-chief, David Burnie & Don E. Wilson. publisher: Smithsonian / DK, 2001. for more info. Children's learning from educational television : Sesame Street and beyond; by Shalom...
Neuroscience
Cognitive Science Colloquium - Th, 4/28 (Perspective-Taking in Great Apes)
Date: Thursday, April 28
Speaker: Josep Call (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
Time: 3.30 pm in Bio-Psych 1208
Title: Perspective-Taking in Great Apes
Abstract: Being able to analyze an object or event from different perspectives is a major achievement of human cognition. Studies on children and our closest primate living relatives, the great apes, can inform us about the development and evolution of this cognitive ability. In this talk, I will explore how apes (and children) deal with physical and social problems in the following three situations: when their own perspective differs from that of others, when they possess conflicting perspectives on a particular object, and when they face unreliable information. To illustrate each of these situations, I will present data on social competition and spatial encoding, the appearance-reality distinction, and meta-memory.
Those wishing to meet with Dr Call during the day should contact [email protected]
Speaker: Josep Call (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
Time: 3.30 pm in Bio-Psych 1208
Title: Perspective-Taking in Great Apes
Abstract: Being able to analyze an object or event from different perspectives is a major achievement of human cognition. Studies on children and our closest primate living relatives, the great apes, can inform us about the development and evolution of this cognitive ability. In this talk, I will explore how apes (and children) deal with physical and social problems in the following three situations: when their own perspective differs from that of others, when they possess conflicting perspectives on a particular object, and when they face unreliable information. To illustrate each of these situations, I will present data on social competition and spatial encoding, the appearance-reality distinction, and meta-memory.
Those wishing to meet with Dr Call during the day should contact [email protected]
- Spindle Neurons In Humpback Whales
from Hof & Van Der Gucht (2006) Spindle Neurons: The Next New Thing? In July, The Neurocritic wrote about a special class of cells found in the anterior cingulate cortex and frontoinsular cortex of humans and great apes. These spindle neurons are...
- Are Elephants Self-aware?
YES: Plotnik JM, de Waal FBM, Reiss D. Self-recognition in an Asian elephant. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. Published online before print October 30, 2006. Considered an indicator of self-awareness, mirror self-recognition (MSR) has long seemed limited to...
- Abstract Of The Day: Social Reasoning And Neuropsychology
Dana Samson, Ian A. Apperly, Umalini Kathirgamanathan and Glyn W. Humphreys. Seeing it my way: A case of a selective deficit in inhibiting self-perspective. Brain 2005 128(5):1102-1111; doi:10.1093/brain/awh464 University of Birmingham, Birmingham,...
- Snakes On The Brain
Great editorial by UC Davis anthropologist Lynne Isbell in yesterday's New York Times about snakes and the evolution of vision in primates. Isbell argues that "[n]ew anthropological evidence suggests that snakes, as predators, may have figured prominently...
- More New Books!
Animal: Definitive visual guide to the world's wildlife; by editors-in-chief, David Burnie & Don E. Wilson. publisher: Smithsonian / DK, 2001. for more info. Children's learning from educational television : Sesame Street and beyond; by Shalom...