Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk: Isabelle Dautriche<https://voynich.univ-amu.fr> (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University) Elementary semantic abilities in non-human primates Human languages share a number of universal architectural features, from atomic meaning properties (e.g., connectedness, Gärdenfors, 2000) to how these meanings combine to generate more complex senses (i.e., compositionality). In this talk, I will present the first results of a new research program investigating experimentally the cognitive origins of these shared features of language in non-human primates to determine whether these features reflect properties of the language faculty or rather domain-general forces potentially shared across cognitive systems and species. I will report three studies suggesting that baboons (Papio papio) (i) like to manipulate 'concepts' of the same shape as ours, (ii) can respond to negation-like operators <t, t>, (iii) report responses in a "compositional" manner. Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2023 Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET Venue: D002-Tiered* (QS Vienna) and Zoom (meeting ID: 969 2496 5784<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96924965784?pwd=c2duZ0dDMFdEMUthK2Mwa2wzMllEUT09>, passcode: 471712) Chair: Rachel Dudley *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna, please email me in advance to get access to the lecture hall. Let me know if you would like to schedule a meeting with Isabelle. Best, Barbu ______________________________________________ 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