Dear all,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk:
Ulf
Liszkowski<https://www.psy.uni-hamburg.de/arbeitsbereiche/entwicklungspsychologie/personen/liszkowski-ulf.html>
(Universität Hamburg)
Ontogeny of human communication and social cognition
Understanding each other is a core feature of human psychology. Classic studies have
focused on the acquisition of language and Theory of Mind in children. I argue that both
skills emerge from an earlier ontogenetic basis, and I propose a developmental process of
social construction that runs deep in ontogeny. I will first present evidence for a
prelinguistic gestural basis of human communication entailing an understanding of shared
reference around one year of age, notably when infants begin to point. Second, based on a
series of recent studies, I will argue that this form of communication and social
cognition is best characterized as an aligning of mental states, but not yet a confronting
of different perspectives, which emerges in children’s spontaneous acts of misinforming
and lying around 3 years of age. Third, I will present recent findings from the first year
of life on the emergence of shared reference. These findings reveal simpler forms of
understanding others’ referential communication before pointing has emerged; and
predictors of pointing in caregivers’ interactive behaviours and infants’ object-directed
activities. I propose the act of object transpositions as a source for developing shared
reference. Ongoing research addresses developmental interactions with temperamental
biases.
Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET
Venue: D001-Tiered* (QS Vienna) and Zoom (meeting ID: 969 2496
5784<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96924965784?pwd=c2duZ0dDMFdEMUthK2Mwa2wzMllEUT09>,
passcode: 471712)
Chair: Gergely Csibra
*Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP
here<https://forms.office.com/e/EqvLGK63E9> to get access to the lecture hall.
Let me know if you would like to schedule a meeting with the speaker.
Best,
Barbu
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