Extractions: Overview Faculty Affiliated Faculty Research Projects ... Recent Graduates The Evolutionary Psychology program conducts research and provides graduate training in a range of areas within evolutionary psychology. The specific research topics under investigation are diverse and include the development of deferred imitation in juvenile chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) and orangutans ( Pongo pygmaeus ), conflict within married couples, the dynamic processes underlying feelings about genetic children and stepchildren, the relationship between tool use and style of play in preschool children, psychological adaptations to sperm competition in humans, and behavioral and mental synchronization in social interaction. Research opportunities and instruction are offered on a wide range of topics, including evolutionary social psychology, evolutionary developmental psychology, comparative psychology, human sexual psychology and behavior, and dynamical systems. As indicated in the Evolutionary Psychology pages, our faculty represent an impressive range of theoretical perspectives and research methodologies. Faculty Member
EDWARDS, D. (1994): Imitation And Artifice In Apes, Humans, And Machines it comes to the manufacture of agents, whether humans, apes or computers in whichhuman infants are thought to become agentive, enculturated, languageusing http://www.cts.cuni.cz/~konopas/liter/Edwards_Imitation and Artifice in Apes Hum
Extractions: Suggests that the issue of nonhuman agency may be resolved not through ontology but as a matter of social and descriptive practices. Analysis of behavioral scientist B.L. Whorf's paradox on the reflexive problems of description; Nonhumans capacity to render themselves in human language; Attribution/anthropomorphism quandary. Mrs. Johns. . . was delighted with her bird's new home. "You could tell he was really pleased, he ran about rounding up his hens." The Guardian, June 1, 1993 This snippet from a human interest story concerns a noisy cockerel, "Corky," recently relocated to a remote farmyard to avoid disturbing a neighbor who had won a court case to get the bird silenced. Other neighbors were reported to have joined Mrs. Johns in what the judge called "some sort of crusade on behalf of oppressed chickens" (Sharrock, 1993). Note the similarity between Mrs. Johns's reported reaction and that attributed to her cockerel, and the reason given for that attribution. Try substituting annoyed, anxious, unhappy or other negative feelings for "pleased" and see if the sentence is any less convincing. LOOKING IN THE MIRROR The most common trope for these concerns must be the "Mirror to Man." We study apes, "those amazing creatures that can teach us so much about ourselves" (Goodall, 1971, p. 14). "Discovery of extraterrestrial life would utterly transform our own view of ourselves as a species" (Professor Martin Rees, Director of Cambridge University's Institute of Astronomy, quoted in "SETIthe search," 1990). Technology in general may be seen as the Mirror (Woolgar, 1987, p. 312), or at least artificial intelligence (AI) may, and some projections of that enterprise produce reflections indistinguishable from the human original: "If machines do come to simulate all of our internal cognitive activities, to the last computational detail, to deny them the status of genuine persons would be nothing but a new form of racism" (Churchland, 1988, p. 120).
Newton's Laws Of Emotion Not only can dogs and cats be enculturated, but studies on social animals such aschimpanzees and apes have revealled that they too, possess their own cultures http://members.iinet.net.au/~tramont/furegs.html
Extractions: Examples In my previous section ( Applied ), I have provided a more detailed illustration of how semiotics can be applied in order to shed light on gender roles. I will now provide a further brief list of some other examples where semiotic theory can be applied in order to yield insights. And in this, we might get a feel for the importance of semiotics, and the difficulty that exists in writing about it. For ultimately, we are venturing into old, even ancient, territory best relayed in terms of metaphor and abstractions - as has been practised for centuries among the different world religions. How does one write about "everything"? THE SEMIOTICS OF LEADERSHIP The role of leader as synthesizer. Good strategy means good synthesis, assimilation (association) of many variables into a single conceptualization. The semiotics of Stephen Covey's 7 habits. MARKETING The relevance of desire to culture. Culture is the source of personal desire, because it is culture that presents the options from which everyone must choose. Dasein (the desire to be) sheds light on the contexts of desire, and what it is that motivates people to make choices. More importantly, how desires emerge, and the mechanisms by which desires can be manipulated. Some articles have been published on the relevance of memetics to marketing, but memetics falls wide of the mark because it is based in the myths of genetic determinism, and fails to confront the nature of desire and the logics within which they are based. The imitation upon which memetics is based fails to understand association and choice. (Meme, defined as "a unit of imitation" - a simplistic interpretation of "sign", based in a genetic deterministic perspective).
The University Of Chicago Press - Doi:10.1086/320485 by other animals will note parallels here with the way linguists shifted the criteriafor what counts as language precisely as enculturated apes were shown http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?id=doi:10.1086/320485
Annual Review Of Psychology - 50(1)683 - Full Text The enculturated chimpanzees demonstrated imitative behavior, including both thespecific adaptive significance of such learning potential in the great apes. http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.psych.50.1.683
Blackwell Synergy - Cookie Absent more complex tasks unless they have been raised in a human enculturated environment (eg apes are often much more focused on solving the task, rather than in http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/openurl?genre=article&sid=vendor:database&issn=
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THE CHANTEK FOUNDATION The Chantek Foundation. Home of Chantek, the First Orangutan Person. and Ambassador ofthe Rain Forest. Chantek is an orangutan who was enculturated and taught to use sign language by anthropologist http://www.chantek.org/
Extractions: CHANTEK FOUNDATION MISSION STATEMENT Dr. Miles presents a cocoa bean rattle instrument he constructed to Sir Paul McCartney and a found art assemblage he created to Heather Mills. Chantek Foundation Mission Statement The mission of the Chantek Foundation is to develop greater scientific understanding of orangutans; to support cultural and language research with Chantek, and other orangutans; to foster greater understanding of great apes as persons; to promote orangutan conservation through awareness of great ape intelligence; to establish culture-based sanctuaries for great apes; and to foster education about building a bridge between humans and great apes. Communication - To create a communication bridge to the orangutan mind by supporting language and enculturation research with Chantek, and other enculturated great apes; and to cooperate with ApeNet, Inc. in the establishment of the first interspecies internet communication Cognition - To understand orangutan intelligence and other abilities; and to explore the evolution of a symbolic capacity in human and nonhuman primates
Extractions: Belarusian Bulgarian Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian (cyr.) Serbian (lat.) Slovak Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian Natur Liv Animals (Animalia) Mammals (Mammalia) ... Primates (Primates): taxonomy Great Apes (Pongidae) This category is not edited. Ever thought of becoming an editor Sister categories ... Avahi, Sifakas, and Indri (Ind... Dwarf Lemurs and Mouse Lemurs ... Enculturated Apes Gibbons, or Lesser Apes (Hylob... Lemurs (Lemuridae) Lorises, Pottos, and Galagos (... Marmosets, or Tamarins (Callit... New World Monkeys (Cebidae) Old World Monkeys (Cercopithec... People, or Human Beings (Homin... Primates (Primates): taxonomy Primatology Sportive Lemurs, or Weasel Lem... Chimpanzees (Pan) Orangutans (Pongo) Gorillas (Gorilla) Sider No filters selected ...
Jim Davies: Primatech please contact Jim Davies (jim@jimdavies.org). Web links for enculturatedand signing apes; Online American Sign Language Dictionary; http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/perception/projects/primatech/
Extractions: The goal of this project is to create an installation that simulates talking to a sign-language using orangutan. Please read the The June 1999 report and look at the diagram for a good overview. If you would like to contribute to this project, please contact Jim Davies (jim@jimdavies.org) Talks Projects for undergrads and new grad students (7100, UROC, etc.) Contributers to the project Jim Davies, jim@jimdavies.org (cognitive modeling) Lyn Miles, lmiles@cecasun.utc.edu (language training) Tim Keenan, tk@cc.gatech.edu (graphics)
Community Education - University Of Canterbury Can apes Ape This session outlines research into imitation in juvenile enculturatedchimpanzees and orangutansanimals raised since infancy much as human child http://www.cont.canterbury.ac.nz/new/community-education/course.php?course=YCO25
Extractions: Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition This is a list of historical apes Ape is a common, yet rather imprecise, name for some animals of the order Primates. Its earliest meaning was a tailless (and therefore exceptionally human-like) non-human primate, but as zoological knowledge developed it became clear that taillessness occurred in a number of different and otherwise unrelated species. Modern scientific usage includes as apes:
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