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Evolang 08 - More Plenary Speakers
Okay, more biased rambling commentary on Evolang 08… On day two the proper conference began and we were treated to two excellent plenary speakers, Gary Marcus and Susan Goldin-Meadow. I’d never heard … more →
Language Evolution
Evolang 08 - More Plenary Speakers
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wrote 1 year ago: Okay, more biased rambling commentary on Evolang 08… On day two the proper conference began and we w … more →
Cool Neo-Whorfian Stuff
wrote 1 year ago: More evidence for language affecting cognition. Here’s a lovely long post at Mixing Memory abo … more →
New PLoS Research Argues for Grammar-Specific Areas in the Brain
wrote 1 year ago: This interesting new paper by Fonteneau & van der Lely presents evidence that there is some spec … more →
Major Language Evolution Papers # 3
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wrote 1 year ago: The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? -Marc D. Hauser, Noam Chomsk … more →
Major Language Evolution Papers: #1
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wrote 1 year ago: Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition – Tomasello et al (200 … more →
Animal Cognition and Philosophy
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wrote 1 year ago: There is a great philosophy paper about animal cognition here. It covers a lot of familiar ground fo … more →
Armand Leroi - What Makes Us Human
wrote 2 years ago: Here is a high quality copy of the second part of Armand Leroi’s acclaimed What Makes Us Human … more →
Neuroscientists explore the brain's experience of punishment
wrote 2 years ago: ScienceNOW Daily News 3 October 2007 Neuroscientists have taken a step closer to a physiological exp … more →
Everett and the Piraha
wrote 2 years ago: An old one but a good one. Here’s a link to the famous New Yorker article on Daniel Everett an … more →
Mirror Neurons Again - Brain Activation in Linguistic Processing (Meister & Iacoboni, 2007)
wrote 2 years ago: This neat little paper adds more fuel to a mirror neuron based account of language evolution. This s … more →
Higher Social Skills Are Distinctly Human, Toddler And Ape Study Reveals
wrote 2 years ago: Taken from www.sciencedaily.com Apes bite and try to break a tube to retrieve the food inside while … more →
Reciprocity in Rats
wrote 2 years ago: John Hawks notes this interesting story that might be interesting to people who are investigating th … more →
Relevance Theory
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wrote 2 years ago: Here’s a brief summary of relevance theory for anyone who’s interested. I’m just r … more →
