LINGUIST List 16.279
Fri Jan 28 2005
Confs: Cognitive Science/Newark, DE, USA
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1. Yurie
Hara,
International Workshop on the Evolution of Cognition
Message 1: International Workshop on the Evolution of Cognition
Date: 26-Jan-2005
From: Yurie Hara <yharaudel.edu>
Subject: International Workshop on the Evolution of Cognition
International Workshop on the Evolution of Cognition
Date: 17-Feb-2005 - 19-Feb-2005
Location: Newark, DE, United States of America
Contact: Yurie Hara
Contact Email: yharaudel.edu
Meeting URL: http://www.ling.udel.edu/cogsci/evolution/
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
Meeting Description:
The evolution of cognition and language are some of the remaining puzzles
that face cognitive science. This workshop explores the issues of how and
why cognitive abilities evolved. It includes presentations from the
perspective of anthropology, cognitive ethology, engineering, philosophy,
psychology, and more. The conference is free and open to the public.
Advanced registration is encouraged. See the website for the conference
(http://www.ling.udel.edu/cogsci/evolution/) for directions and details.
Presession: Thursday, February 17th
Plenary Session I: Friday, February 18th
Plenary Session II: Saturday, February 19th
Presession
Thursday, February 17th
12:00pm-1:30pm (Trabant Room 209, 211)
Juliette Blevins
Max Planck Institute-Leipzig Convergence and Divergence in Evolutionary
Phonology
4:00pm (108 Memorial)
Juliette Blevins
Max Planck Institute-Leipzig An Overview of Evolutionary Phonology
Plenary session I
Friday, February 18th (Location: Willard 007)
9:30am
Dan Rich, Provost
University of Delaware Opening remarks and greeting
10:00am
Philip Lieberman
Brown University TBA
11:00am
Tom Schoenemann
University of Pennsylvania TBA
Noon (Lunch Break)
1:30pm
Daniel Povinelli
University of Louisianna-Lafayette Bodily Origins of SELF: An Evolutionary
Hypothesis
2:30pm
Josep Call
Max Planck Institute-Leipzig On the evolution of thinking ahead
3:30pm
Antoni Gomila
University of Balearic Islands The evolution of language: why ontogenesis
does not recapitulate phylogenesis
4:30pm Reception
Plenary session II
Saturday, February 19th (Location: Willard 007)
10:00am
Dorothy Cheney
Robert Seyfarth
University of Pennsylvania Who, me? Baboons infer another animal's intent
to communicate
Social cognition and the origins of language
Noon (Lunch Break)
1:30pm
Michael Arbib
University of Southern California Giving Vocalization a Hand in Evolving
the Language-Ready Brain
2:30pm
Colin Allen
Indiana University Macaque Mirror Neurons: Detecting Intentions
Intentionally?
3:30pm
Charles Yang
Yale University Evolving an imperfect language
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