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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Peter Gärdenfors (Lund University): From showing to telling: On the evolutionary path from pantomime to language, Febr 10, 2026

by Mariem Diane

Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk by: Peter Gärdenfors<https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lucat/user/dd34d43676316d332664e1351eb21a47> (Lund University)* *Please note, this is a talk by the same speaker as the talk on Wednesday, 11th of February, but on another topic. Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2026 Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET Venue: Auditorium Zoom : Meeting ID: 969 2496 5784<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96924965784?pwd%3Dc2…> Passcode: 471712 Chair: Gergo Csibra Title: From showing to telling: On the evolutionary path from pantomime to language Abstract: Pantomime has two functions. The first is to show how something is done. This is used in teaching contexts. The second is to tell about something – events, stories, gossip, plans, dreams, etc. The second use has been extended successively to protosign, protolanguage, and language. In this talk I analyse the transition from the first to the second use of pantomime. How did the shift from showing to telling happen? Apparently, this is a crucial step in the evolution of language. My account is based on comparing the intentions behind a pantomime. In a teaching context, a pantomime is used by a mimer (teacher) with the intention that the onlooker (student) perceives a sequence of actions that the onlooker should perform. In a communicative context, the mimer acts with the intention to ostensively communicate a message to an audience. A following step in the evolution of language concerns the partitioning of a pantomime in smaller units. A pantomime for teaching consists of ‘holophrases’ in the terminology of Arbib. In the evolution of language, there has been a discretization so the holophrases are replaced with conventionalized gestures or words. My account of this development into discrete parts will be formed in terms of how humans structure mental representations of events, where the basic components are actor, action, patient, and result. Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must reply here<https://forms.office.com/e/FJ1q8wKj0G> to get access to the lecture hall. Best, Mariem ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] talk by Francesco Guala on ‘BELIEF-LESS COORDINATION' - Thursday, Nov 14, 2024- 4pm (CET)

by Fanni Takatsy

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk by: Speaker: Francesco Guala<https://sites.unimi.it/guala/> (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Time: 4pm (to 6 pm) CET Date: THURSDAY, 14th November 2024 Venue: D002 (QS Vienna) and Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/97497562931?pwd=QyM6f1EIAyxLEa7MjQOmdWOubziToZ.1 Meeting ID: 974 9756 2931 Passcode: 382039 Chair: Thomas Wolf Title: BELIEF-LESS COORDINATION Abstract: Meta-representation does not always facilitate social interaction. I illustrate this claim focusing on the case of coordination in Hi-lo games, and conjecture that people coordinate using a mode of reasoning that does not require the representation of others’ beliefs. I compare this sort of belief-less reasoning with theories that appeal to limited meta-representation, and present evidence indicating that people employ both – with meta-representation being used less frequently in coordinative than in competitive tasks. *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP to get access to the lecture hall. Best regards, Fanni ------------------------------------------------ FANNI TAKÁTSY Lab Manager/Research Coordinator, Social Mind Center ------------------------------------------------ [cid:42067b17-4991-4d34-9c89-2f5005166125] CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY Quellenstrasse 51. | 1100 Vienna, Austria takatsyf(a)ceu.edu<mailto:jeneia@ceu.edu> http://socialmind.ceu.edu/ http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/ ------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu

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