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BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszék házi kollokvium sorozata - 2. előadás

by Jakab Zoltán

*Előadás a BME Kognitív Tudományi Központ* *házi kollokvium sorozata keretében:* *Előadó: **Laurence B. Leonard (Purdue University)* *Cím:* *The Crosslinguistic Study of Children with Specific Language Impairment* *Absztrakt:* Children with specific language impairment (SLI) show a significant deficit in their language ability but appear to be functioning normally in other areas. Their hearing is normal, they earn age-appropriate scores on nonverbal tests of intelligence, they do not show symptoms characteristic of autism, and they exhibit no clear signs of neurological impairment. Children with SLI who are acquiring English often experience a mild to moderate deficit in vocabulary and sentence length but a more serious deficit in the use of grammatical morphology (e.g., saying /Mommy like eat ice cream /instead of /Mommy like*s to *eat ice cream/). The purpose of this presentation is to show that a clear understanding of this profile, or other profiles of SLI, requires careful study of SLI across languages. Examples will be presented of very different symptoms of SLI depending on the type of language (e.g., English, Swedish, Italian, Cantonese) being acquired. Implications for language treatment will also be discussed. *Idő:* 2004 szeptember 30 (*kivételesen csütörtök*), 16 óra *Hely:* BME, St. 320. Minden érdeklődőt szeretettel várunk. Jakab Zoltán

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Philosophy of Science Colloquium, October

by Laszlo E. Szabo

P h i l o s o p h y o f S c i e n c e C o l l o q u i u m Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest Room 6.54 (6th floor) Monday 4:00 PM Pazmany P. setany 1/A Budapest, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924 http://hps.elte.hu/seminar Program: October 4 October 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 (Language: English) A n d r e j U l e Philosophy, Philosophy, University of Ljubljana Thought and Machine: Some Wittgenstein's Comments Abstract: http://hps.elte.hu/seminar/2004/October/index.html#1 11 October 5:00 PM CEU (Nador u. 9), Gellner Room (2nd floor) !!! (Language: English) Joint seminar session of the HPS Department of Eotvos University and the CEU Mathematics Department M a r k St e i n e r Philosophy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Philosophy, Columbia University Mathematics: Application and Applicability Abstract: http://hps.elte.hu/seminar/2004/October/index.html#2 18 October 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 (Language: English, except if all participants speak Hungarian) K a t a l i n F a r k a s Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest Time and Tense Abstract: http://hps.elte.hu/seminar/2004/October/index.html#3 25 October 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 (Language: Hungarian) G y u l a B e n e Theoretical Physics, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest Gyorsulo univerzum (Accelerating universe) Abstract: http://hps.elte.hu/seminar/2004/October/index.html#4 ___________________________________ The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then we hold a 30-60-minute discussion. The participants may comment on the talks and are encouraged to initiate discussion through the Internet. The comments should be written in the language of the presentation. The organizer of the colloquium: Laszlo E. Szabo (email: leszabo(a)hps.elte.hu) -- L a s z l o E. S z a b o Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest http://hps.elte.hu/leszabo

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P h i l o s o p h y o f S c i e n c e C o l l o q u i u m, Bishop

by Laszlo E. Szabo

21 years, 9 months

BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszék házi kollokvium sorozata

by Jakab Zoltán

*Előadás a BME Kognitív Tudományi Központ* *házi kollokvium sorozata keretében:* *Előadó: Kiss Tamás, Orbán Gergő, Érdi Péter, KFKI RMKI Biofizika Osztály, CNS Csoport **Cím:* Hippokampális membránpotenciál oszcillációk generálásának és farmakológiai módosításának számítógépes modellezése. Számítógépes neurofarmakológia? * Absztrakt: * <>A hippokampusz az agy egy olyan központi területe, mely szinte minden neokortikális és sok szubkortikális területtől kap elő-feldolgozott, multimodális inputokat, melyek lehetővé teszik számára, hogy számos kognitív folyamatban játsszon szerepet. Ezen folyamatok, valamint az állat különféle viselkedési formái alatt gyakran figyelhetők meg a hippokampuszban jellegzetes, a viselkedéssel korreláló sejt-élettani jelenségek, legtöbbször elektroenkefalográffal (EEG), vagy makroelektródával mérhető populációs oszcillációk formájában. Anatómiai szempontból a hippokampusz a limbikus rendszerhez tartozik és az ún. Papez-körnek is része, mely többek közt az érzelmek szabályozásában játszik szerepet, így nem meglepő, hogy a hippokampusz elektromos aktivitása az érzelmi változásokat is követi. Számos olyan szorongást, illetve depressziót csökkentő szer ismert, mely gyógyhatása mellett, vagy azzal párhuzamosan, hatással van a hippokampális aktivitásra is. Azonban az a kérdés, hogy ezek a szerek hatásukat más agyterületeken fejtik ki és csupán ez tükröződik a hippokampuszban, vagy esetleg hippokampális hatásuk okán csökken a páciens szorongása, esetleg e kettő hatás egyszerre jelentkezik, nem ismert. A számítógépes agykutatás (Computational Neuroscience) eszközeivel azt vizsgáljuk, melyek azok az anatómiai és élettani jelenségek, feltételek, (matematikai kényszerek), melyek a kísérletekben megfigyelt populációs (hálózati) aktivitáshoz vezetnek, illetve a kialakult oszcilláció az egyes feltételek (paraméterek) változtatásával, azaz különféle hatású drogok adásával hogyan változtatható meg. Ha a módszer átfogó képet tud adni általános droghatásokról, – melyet jövőbeli vizsgálatokkal is igazolnunk kell még – esetleg alkalmazhatóvá válhat a gyógyszerkutatás számára is. * * *Idő:* 2004 . szeptember 27. 16 óra *Hely:* BME, St. ép. 320. Minden érdeklődőt szeretettel várunk. Jakab Zoltán

21 years, 9 months

Fw: EUROCAST 2005 (konferencia felhivas)

by George Kampis

EUROCAST 2005 Workshop on Intelligent Information Processing Location: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands), Spain Date: 07-Feb-2005 - 11-Feb-2005 http://www.ciber.ulpgc.es/iuctc/spain/eurocast/workshop.html Description: "Declarative Methods in Intelligent Information Processing" is one of the 8 workshops forming the "Tenth International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory" to be held in February 7-11, 2005 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain). The proceedings with extended papers will be published in the LNCS series of Springer Verlag after the conference. Abstract deadline: 31-Oct-2004 Declarative Methods in Intelligent Information Processing Topics * Modelling and verification of communication protocols * Concurrent and distributed computing * Design patterns for distributed aplications * Formal verification * Document classification and search * Extraction/retrieval of information * Question answering * Interfaces. Program Commitee Chairman: J. L. Freire (Univ. of Coruna, Spain) An extended two pages abstract, including references in English with indication of the workshop of the intended contribution must be sent by e-mail before October, 31, 2004 to the Organizing Committee contact Alexis Quesada, aquesada(a)dis.ulpgc.es For the extended abstract, you must follow instructions in Information for LNCS Authors Authors will be notified of acceptance by December 1, 2004. It is anticipated that the final selected full papers will be published in line with previous Eurocast meetings (Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science No 410, No 585, No 763, No 1030, No 1333, No 1798, No 2178 and No 2809). Full papers for publication are required before April 30, 2005. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

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Tomasello et al./Understanding and sharing intentions: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Below the proposal instructions please find the abstract, keywords, and a link to the full text of the forthcoming BBS target article: Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, Tanya Behne, and Henrike Moll This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates or suggested by a BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls(a)bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to suggest someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. An electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) ======================================================================= *** COMMENTARY PROPOSAL INSTRUCTIONS *** ======================================================================= To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, it would be most helpful if you would send us an indication of the relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the paper, and what aspect of the paper you would anticipate commenting upon. Please DO NOT prepare a commentary until you receive a formal invitation, indicating that it was possible to include your name on the final list, which is constructed so as to balance areas of expertise and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. ======================================================================= *** TARGET ARTICLE INFORMATION *** ======================================================================= TITLE: Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition AUTHORS: Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, Tanya Behne, and Henrike Moll ABSTRACT: We propose that the crucial difference between human cognition and that of other species is the ability to participate with others in collaborative activities with shared goals and intentions: shared intentionality. Participation in such activities requires not only especially powerful forms of intention-reading and cultural learning, but also a unique motivation to share psychological states with others and unique forms of cognitive representation for doing so. The result of participating in these activities is species-unique forms of cultural cognition and evolution, enabling everything from the creation and use of linguistic symbols to the construction of social norms and individual beliefs to the establishment of social institutions. In support of this proposal we argue and present evidence that great apes (and some children with autism) understand the basics of intentional action, but they still do participate in activities involving joint intentions and attention (shared intentionality). Human children's skills of shared intentionality develop gradually during the first 14 months of life as two ontogenetic pathways intertwine: (i) the general ape line of understanding others as animate, goal-directed, and intentional agents, and (ii) a species-unique motivation to share emotions, experience, and activities with other persons. The developmental outcome is children's ability to construct dialogic cognitive representations, which enable them to participate in earnest in the collectivity that is human cognition. KEYWORDS: Collaboration, Cooperation, Cultural Learning, Culture, Evolutionary Psychology, Intentions, Shared Intentionality, Social Cognition, Social Learning, Theory of Mind, Joint Attention FULL TEXT: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Tomasello-01192004/Referees/ FIGURES: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Tomasello-01192004/Referees/Tomasello.fi… ======================================================================= SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT ======================================================================= (1) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review. (Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential impact!). *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Please note: Your email address has been added to our user database for Calls for Commentators, the reason you received this email. 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Cognition and Technology: Call for papers (fwd)

by Stevan Harnad

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:00:18 -0000 From: Kevin Cox <kcox(a)fasfind.com> To: ctsoc(a)yahoogroups.com As technology advances we are witnessing changes in the nature of cognition. A wide range of issues pertaining to technology and cognition will be covered in a series of special issues of the journal Pragmatics & Cognition. We are inviting contributions to our special issues, as specified below (for full details, please see: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~id/technology.html ) Pragmatics & Cognition (P&C) will henceforth pay special attention to the growing interest in the relationship between technological advances and cognition a field that is intimately related to the journal's basic concerns. Beginning with volume 13 (2005), Pragmatics & Cognition will contain three issues instead of the current two. Each year, one of P&C's issues will be a thematic Special Issue devoted to "Cognition and Technology" (C&T), containing invited as well as submitted refereed papers. Space will also be reserved in these thematic issues for submitted articles, discussion notes, and book reviews in the field of C&T not specifically related to the theme of the Special Issue. Each Special Issue will be co-edited by a Guest Editor and Itiel Dror, who has been appointed P&C's Associate Editor for C&T. For full details, please see: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~id/technology.html Special Issues 1. New Technologies and the Pragmatics of Cognition Editors: Marcelo Dascal and Itiel Dror 2. Distributed Cognition Editors: Stevan Harnad and Itiel Dror 3. Robotics and Cognition Editors: Pim Haselager, Maria Eunice Qumlice Gonzales, and Itiel Dror 4. Ageing, Impairment, and Technology Editors: Romola Bucks, Jonathan Cole, and Itiel Dror 5. Technologies for Cognitive Research: Achievements, Problems, and Prospects Editors: Boris Velichkovsky and Itiel Dror 6. Cognitive Development and Education in the Mirror of Technology Editors: TBA and Itiel Dror Contributions are invited to the Special Cognition and Technology Series (for full details, please see: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~id/technology.html )

21 years, 9 months

Re: Victory for the NIH open access plan in the House (fwd)

by Stevan Harnad

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:53:13 +0100 From: Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM(a)LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG Subject: Re: Victory for the NIH open access plan in the House There is an excellent summary of the NIH self-archiving mandate and the growing momentum of Open Access (OA) in Information Today, September 15, 2004 "NIH Requires Open Access for Its Funded Medical Research" by Barbara Quint http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb040913-1.shtml Information Today is also hosting a Debate on Open Access at the Internet Librarian Internet Librarian International: In London, England Monday 11 October 2004 http://www.internet-librarian.com/Monday.shtml#OpenAccess In Monterey, California Wednesday 27 November 2004 http://www.infotoday.com/il2004/wednesday.shtml#TrackC Barbara Quint's valuable and informative survey devotes more space to the speculations about hypothetical negative consequences of OA http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#17.Publishers than to the actual and growing evidence for the positive consequences http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html which are the real rationale for OA, but these will become more widely known and understood with time. One minor point: I support the proposal to mandate the OA self-archiving of NIH-funded biomedical research 100%! My suggestion (which has nothing to do with the speculations about hypothetical negative consequences!) is only that the mandate's effects will propagate far more widely and quickly to research in fields other than NIH-funded biomedical research if just one small implementational detail is modified: Instead of stipulating that the self-archiving must be done in one central archive -- PubMed Central -- http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&db_id=cp108&r_n=hr636.108&sel=TOC_3… it would be far better not to stipulate the archive at all, only that it must be OAI-compliant: http://www.openarchives.org/ OAI-compliance ensures that the growing network of distributed institutional archives http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse is interoperable, and hence functionally equivalent to one global virtual network: http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/ If the self-archiving is done institutionally rather than centrally, the practice of self-archiving will spread far more readily across each institution's other disciplines. Compliance with the self-archiving mandate can be monitored and the metadata can even be harvested into PubMed Central, hence nothing is lost, but a great deal more OA is gained: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php The UK self-archiving mandate -- otherwise very much like the US mandate -- got this small but important implementational detail exactly right: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/399… Stevan Harnad

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CEU Philosophy Events/ September

by Istvan Aranyosi

Dear Colleague, below please find the details of September 2004 philosophy events at CEU. Budapest Mind Society (BMS) events: (The BMS has been founded and is currently managed by Hong Yu Wong and Istvan Aranyosi) -------------------------------------------- Inaugural lecture by Professor Howard Robinson CEU Department of Philosophy September 17, 2004 (THIS FRIDAY) CEU philosophy department's seminar room (Zrinyi ut. 14, room 412) at 2 pm Abstract: This talk might have either of two titles. It might be called 'The knowledge argument and the conceivability of zombies' or, alternatively, 'Reduction, supervenience and the a priori sufficiency of the base'. The common factor is the question of what kind of relation a physicalist must think there to be between physical and mental states, and whether, and in what way, he could accept the knowledge argument and still hold on to his physicalism. I shall look at the issue of whether the base should entail states that supervene on it (as Chalmers and Jackson 2001 claim) or whether the relation can be contingent. Those who defend the latter view include Block and Stalnaker 1999, and Balog 1999, in their respective Philosophical Review articles. I shall try also to bring out what I take to be features common to the debates on different kinds of physicalism. Balog, K. 1999. Conceivability, possibility, and the mind-body problem. Philosophical Review 108:497-528. Block, N. & Stalnaker, R. 1999. Conceptual analysis, dualism, and the explanatory gap. Philosophical Review 108:1-46. Chalmers, D. J. & Frank Jackson. 2001. Conceptual Analysis and Reductive Explanation. Philosophical Review 110:315-61. ------------------------------------------------------- Second BMS meeting: István Aranyosi Philosophy, CEU "Why Property Dualism drives me Out of My Mind" September 22, 2004 CEU philosophy department's seminar room (Zrinyi ut. 14, room 412) at 5 pm Abstract: Property Dualism has become a more popular doctrine than substanve dualism. I will analyze the coherence of the property dualist view about disembodiment, according to which the conceivability of disembodiment can coexist with its impossibility. Since the argument for such a view draws largely on Saul Kripke's idea of a posteriori necessity, I will also appeal to it, but in order to show that such a view is incoherent. The puzzle that I find can be solved only by rejecting property dualism and adopting either substance dualism or a certain kind of materialism. Chalmers, D. J. 2002. Does Conceivability Entail Possibility? In T. Gendler and J. Hawthorne (eds.) Conceivability and Possibility. Oxford University Press, pp.145-200. Kripke, S. 1972. Naming and Necessity. In D. Davidson and G. Harman, (eds.) Semantics of Natural Language, Reidel, Dordrecht, pp. 253--355. -------------------------------------------------- CEU, "Work in Progress Seminar" lecture series: István Aranyosi Philosophy, CEU "Concluding Dualism" September 29, 2004 CEU philosophy department's seminar room (Zrinyi ut. 14, room 412) at 5 pm Abstract: The past twenty years or so of debate around the qualia based objection to materialism have been focused exclusively on either defenses of materialism or of anti-materialism. In this paper I want to inquire into what exactly the most important such anti-materialist arguments have as their conclusion. I will not question the soundness of these arguments, but will assume it. What I am interested in is what more can be said about their conclusions, besides their being negations of materialism. I will analyze the conclusions that follow from the premises of three qualia arguments, David Chalmers' zombie argument (1996), Frank Jackson's knowledge argument (1982), and Stephen White's property dualism argument (1986). I will formulate property dualism in what I think is its most intuitive form, and will try to show that while certainly anti-materialistic, the conclusions of the above mentioned arguments imply weaker kinds of property dualism than the intuitive one. After that, I will offer an argument for property dualism whose conclusion conforms to the intuitive understanding of property dualism. Finally, I will offer a classification of property dualisms according to their closeness to the intuitive and strongest version, a classification that has not been offered so far in the literature, as a result of the exclusive focus on the materialism/antimaterialism issue, which obscured and made philosophers fail to recognize more fine tuned distinctions within the property dualist doctrine. Chalmers, D. J. 1996. The Conscious Mind. In search of a Fundamental Theory, Oxford University Press. Horgan, T. and J. Tienson, 2001. Deconstructing new wave materialism. In B. Loewer and C. Gillett (eds.), Physicalism and Its Discontents, Cambridge University Press, pp. 307-318. Jackson, F. 1982. Epiphenomenal qualia, Philosophical Quarterly, 32: 127-136. White, S. 1986 Curse of the Qualia, Synthese, 68, 333-368. NOTE: paper available online at: http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/03/Istvan_Aranyosi/Concluding%20dualism… ------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone welcome! With best wishes, Istvan ********************* István A. Aranyosi Department of Philosophy Central European University Zrinyi u. 14, 1051 Budapest, Hungary Tel: +3(0)670-576-1081 Fax: (36-1) 327-3072 Homepage: http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/03/Istvan_Aranyosi/

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Tomasello et al./Understanding and sharing intentions: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty, Below the proposal instructions please find the abstract, keywords, and a link to the full text of the forthcoming BBS target article: Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, Tanya Behne, and Henrike Moll This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates or suggested by a BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls(a)bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to suggest someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. An electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) ======================================================================= *** COMMENTARY PROPOSAL INSTRUCTIONS *** ======================================================================= To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, it would be most helpful if you would send us an indication of the relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the paper, and what aspect of the paper you would anticipate commenting upon. Please DO NOT prepare a commentary until you receive a formal invitation, indicating that it was possible to include your name on the final list, which is constructed so as to balance areas of expertise and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. ======================================================================= *** TARGET ARTICLE INFORMATION *** ======================================================================= TITLE: Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition AUTHORS: Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, Tanya Behne, and Henrike Moll ABSTRACT: We propose that the crucial difference between human cognition and that of other species is the ability to participate with others in collaborative activities with shared goals and intentions: shared intentionality. Participation in such activities requires not only especially powerful forms of intention-reading and cultural learning, but also a unique motivation to share psychological states with others and unique forms of cognitive representation for doing so. The result of participating in these activities is species-unique forms of cultural cognition and evolution, enabling everything from the creation and use of linguistic symbols to the construction of social norms and individual beliefs to the establishment of social institutions. In support of this proposal we argue and present evidence that great apes (and some children with autism) understand the basics of intentional action, but they still do participate in activities involving joint intentions and attention (shared intentionality). Human children's skills of shared intentionality develop gradually during the first 14 months of life as two ontogenetic pathways intertwine: (i) the general ape line of understanding others as animate, goal-directed, and intentional agents, and (ii) a species-unique motivation to share emotions, experience, and activities with other persons. The developmental outcome is children's ability to construct dialogic cognitive representations, which enable them to participate in earnest in the collectivity that is human cognition. KEYWORDS: Collaboration, Cooperation, Cultural Learning, Culture, Evolutionary Psychology, Intentions, Shared Intentionality, Social Cognition, Social Learning, Theory of Mind, Joint Attention FULL TEXT: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Tomasello-01192004/Referees/ FIGURES: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Tomasello-01192004/Referees/Tomasello.fi… ======================================================================= SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT ======================================================================= (1) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review. (Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential impact!). *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Please note: Your email address has been added to our user database for Calls for Commentators, the reason you received this email. If you do not wish to receive further Calls, please feel free to change your mailshot status through your User Login link on the BBSPrints homepage, using your username and password. Or, email a response with the word "remove" in the subject line. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Barbara Finlay - Editor Paul Bloom - Editor Behavioral and Brain Sciences bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

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