Apes Language And The Human Mind

Author : E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh,Stuart Shanker,Talbot J. Taylor
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Animal communication
ISBN : 9780195109863

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Apes, Language, and the Human Mind by E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh,Stuart Shanker,Talbot J. Taylor Pdf

Current primate research has yielded stunning results that not only threaten our underlying assumptions about the cognitive and communicative abilities of nonhuman primates, but also bring into question what it means to be human. At the forefront of this research, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh recently has achieved a scientific breakthrough of impressive proportions. Her work with Kanzi, a laboratory-reared bonobo, has led to Kanzi's acquisition of linguistic and cognitive skills similar to those of a two and a half year-old human child. Apes, Language, and the Human Mind skillfully combines a fascinating narrative of the Kanzi research with incisive critical analysis of the research's broader linguistic, psychological, and anthropological implications. The first part of the book provides a detailed, personal account of Kanzi's infancy, youth, and upbringing, while the second part addresses the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological issues raised by the Kanzi research. The authors discuss the challenge to the foundations of modern cognitive science presented by the Kanzi research; the methods by which we represent and evaluate the abilities of both primates and humans; and the implications which ape language research has for the study of the evolution of human language. Sure to be controversial, this exciting new volume offers a radical revision of the sciences of language and mind, and will be important reading for all those working in the fields of primatology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy of mind, and cognitive and developmental psychology.

Author : John McCrone
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0380713993

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The Ape That Spoke by John McCrone Pdf

Author : Sue Savage-Rumbaugh,Stuart G. Shanker,Talbot J. Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:901691492

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Apes, Language, and the Human Mind by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh,Stuart G. Shanker,Talbot J. Taylor Pdf

Author : Sue Savage-Rumbaugh,Stuart G. Shanker,Talbot J. Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998-06-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198026976

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Apes, Language, and the Human Mind by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh,Stuart G. Shanker,Talbot J. Taylor Pdf

Current primate research has yielded stunning results that not only threaten our underlying assumptions about the cognitive and communicative abilities of nonhuman primates, but also bring into question what it means to be human. At the forefront of this research, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh recently has achieved a scientific breakthrough of impressive proportions. Her work with Kanzi, a laboratory-reared bonobo, has led to Kanzi's acquisition of linguistic and cognitive skills similar to those of a two and a half year-old human child. Apes, Language, and the Human Mind skillfully combines a fascinating narrative of the Kanzi research with incisive critical analysis of the research's broader linguistic, psychological, and anthropological implications. The first part of the book provides a detailed, personal account of Kanzi's infancy, youth, and upbringing, while the second part addresses the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological issues raised by the Kanzi research. The authors discuss the challenge to the foundations of modern cognitive science presented by the Kanzi research; the methods by which we represent and evaluate the abilities of both primates and humans; and the implications which ape language research has for the study of the evolution of human language. Sure to be controversial, this exciting new volume offers a radical revision of the sciences of language and mind, and will be important reading for all those working in the fields of primatology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy of mind, and cognitive and developmental psychology.

Author : Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781620459089

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Kanzi by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Pdf

The remarkable story of a "talking" chimp, a leading scientist, and the profound insights they have uncovered about our species He has been featured in cover stories in Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic, and has been the subject of a "NOVA" documentary. He is directly responsible for discoveries that have forced the scientific community to recast its thinking about the nature of the mind and the origins of language. He is Kanzi, an extraordinary bonobo chimpanzee who has overturned the idea that symbolic language is unique to our species. This is the moving story of how Kanzi learned to converse with humans and the profound lessons he has taught us about our animal cousins, and ourselves. " . . . The underlying thesis is informative and well argued . . . Savage-Rumbaugh's results are impressive." — The Washington Post "This popular, absorbing, and controversial account is recommended." — Library Journal

Author : Sue Savage-Rumbaugh,Roger Lewin
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 047115959X

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Kanzi by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh,Roger Lewin Pdf

The remarkable story of a "talking" chimp, a leading scientist, and the profound insights they have uncovered about our species He has been featured in cover stories in Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic, and has been the subject of a "NOVA" documentary. He is directly responsible for discoveries that have forced the scientific community to recast its thinking about the nature of the mind and the origins of language. He is Kanzi, an extraordinary bonobo chimpanzee who has overturned the idea that symbolic language is unique to our species. This is the moving story of how Kanzi learned to converse with humans and the profound lessons he has taught us about our animal cousins, and ourselves. ". . . The underlying thesis is informative and well argued . . . Savage-Rumbaugh's results are impressive." — The Washington Post "This popular, absorbing, and controversial account is recommended." — Library Journal

Author : Kristin Andrews
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262017558

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Do Apes Read Minds? by Kristin Andrews Pdf

Andrews argues for a pluralistic folk psychology that employs different kinds of practices and different kinds of cognitive tools (including personality trait attribution, stereotype activation, inductive reasoning about past behavior, and generalization from self) that are involved in our folk psychological practices.

Author : Juan Carlos Gómez
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0674037790

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Apes, Monkeys, Children, and the Growth of Mind by Juan Carlos Gómez Pdf

What can the study of young monkeys and apes tell us about the minds of young humans? In this fascinating introduction to the study of primate minds, Juan Carlos Gomez identifies evolutionary resemblances--and differences--between human children and other primates. He argues that primate minds are best understood not as fixed collections of specialized cognitive capacities, but more dynamically, as a range of abilities that can surpass their original adaptations. In a lively overview of a distinguished body of cognitive developmental research among nonhuman primates, Gomez looks at knowledge of the physical world, causal reasoning (including the chimpanzee-like errors that human children make), and the contentious subjects of ape language, theory of mind, and imitation. Attempts to teach language to chimpanzees, as well as studies of the quality of some primate vocal communication in the wild, make a powerful case that primates have a natural capacity for relatively sophisticated communication, and considerable power to learn when humans teach them. Gomez concludes that for all cognitive psychology's interest in perception, information-processing, and reasoning, some essential functions of mental life are based on ideas that cannot be explicitly articulated. Nonhuman and human primates alike rely on implicit knowledge. Studying nonhuman primates helps us to understand this perplexing aspect of all primate minds.

Author : David Premack
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134671885

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Intelligence in Ape and Man (Psychology Revivals) by David Premack Pdf

What is language and what is the nature of the intelligence that can acquire it? This volume, originally published in 1976, describes 10 years of research devoted to these questions. The author describes his programmatic research of decomposing language into atomic constituents, designing and applying training programs for teaching these to chimpanzees, and for teaching chimps major human ontological categories, as well as for interrogative, declarative, and imperative sentence forms. The volume details the progress from teaching apes simple predicates such as same–different, to more complex predicates such as if–then, and the success of the program led to the following questions directly related to intelligence: What made the training program effective? What is the cognitive equipment of the species which enables it to learn language? What does this tell us about human intelligence? The answers were suggested in terms of conceptual structure, representational capacity, memory and the ability to handle second-order relations. The results of this experimentation, which resulted in synonymy in some animals, shed light not only on the nature of language, but the nature of intelligence as well. One of the earliest ape language and intelligence studies, today this classic can be read and enjoyed again in its historical context.

Author : Anne E. Russon,Kim A. Bard,Sue Taylor Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998-11-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521644968

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Reaching Into Thought by Anne E. Russon,Kim A. Bard,Sue Taylor Parker Pdf

This book investigates current field and theoretical information on great ape cognition.

Author : Herbert S. Terrace
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780231550017

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Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can by Herbert S. Terrace Pdf

In the 1970s, the behavioral psychologist Herbert S. Terrace led a remarkable experiment to see if a chimpanzee could be taught to use language. A young ape, named “Nim Chimpsky” in a nod to the linguist whose theories Terrace challenged, was raised by a family in New York and instructed in American Sign Language. Initially, Terrace thought that Nim could create sentences but later discovered that Nim’s teachers inadvertently cued his signing. Terrace concluded that Project Nim failed—not because Nim couldn’t create sentences but because he couldn’t even learn words. Language is a uniquely human quality, and attempting to find it in animals is wishful thinking at best. The failure of Project Nim meant we were no closer to understanding where language comes from. In this book, Terrace revisits Project Nim to offer a novel view of the origins of human language. In contrast to both Noam Chomsky and his critics, Terrace contends that words, as much as grammar, are the cornerstones of language. Retracing human evolution and developmental psychology, he shows that nonverbal interaction is the foundation of infant language acquisition, leading up to a child’s first words. By placing words and conversation before grammar, we can, for the first time, account for the evolutionary basis of language. Terrace argues that this theory explains Nim’s inability to acquire words and, more broadly, the differences between human and animal communication. Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can is a masterful statement of the nature of language and what it means to be human.

Author : W.A. Hillix,Duane Rumbaugh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781475745122

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Animal Bodies, Human Minds: Ape, Dolphin, and Parrot Language Skills by W.A. Hillix,Duane Rumbaugh Pdf

Several books chronicle attempts, most of them during the last 40 years, to teach animals to communicate with people in a human-designed language. These books have typically treated only one or two species, or even one or a few research projects. We have provided a more encompassing view of this field. We also want to reinforce what other authors, for example Jane Goodall, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Penny Patterson, Birute Galdikas, and Roger and Deborah Fouts, so passionately convey about our responsibility for our closest animal kin. This book surveys what was known, or believed about animal language throughout history and prehistory, and summarizes current knowledge and the controversy around it. The authors identify and attempt to settle most of the problems in interpreting the animal behaviours that have been observed in studies of animal language ability.

Author : Sue Taylor Parker,Kathleen Rita Gibson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521459699

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'Language' and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes by Sue Taylor Parker,Kathleen Rita Gibson Pdf

This is the first collection of articles completely and explicitly devoted to the new field of 'comparative developmental evolutionary psychology' - that is, to studies of primate abilities based on frameworks drawn from developmental psychology and evolutionary biology. These frameworks include Piagetian and neo-Piagetian models as well as psycholinguistic ones. The articles in this collection - originating in Japan, Spain, Italy, France, Canada and the United States - represent a variety of backgrounds in human and nonhuman primate research, including psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, cultural and physical anthropology, ethology, and comparative psychology. The book focuses on such areas as the nature of culture, intelligence, language, and imitation; the differences among species in mental abilities and developmental patterns; and the evolution of life histories and of mental abilities and their neurological bases. The species studied include the African grey parrot, cebus and macaque monkeys, gorillas, orangutans, and both common and pygmy chimpanzees.

Author : Michael A. Arbib
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789027260673

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How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map by Michael A. Arbib Pdf

How did humans evolve biologically so that our brains and social interactions could support language processes, and how did cultural evolution lead to the invention of languages (signed as well as spoken)? This book addresses these questions through comparative (neuro)primatology – comparative study of brain, behavior and communication in monkeys, apes and humans – and an EvoDevoSocio framework for approaching biological and cultural evolution within a shared perspective. Each chapter provides an authoritative yet accessible review from a different discipline: linguistics (evolutionary, computational and neuro), archeology and neuroarcheology, macaque neurophysiology, comparative neuroanatomy, primate behavior, and developmental studies. These diverse perspectives are unified by having each chapter close with a section on its implications for creating a new road map for multidisciplinary research. These implications include assessment of the pluses and minuses of the Mirror System Hypothesis as an “old” road map. The cumulative road map is then presented in the concluding chapter. Originally published as a special issue of Interaction Studies 19:1/2 (2018).

Author : Laurent Dubreuil,Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781452958293

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Dialogues on the Human Ape by Laurent Dubreuil,Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Pdf

A primatologist and a humanist together explore the meaning of being a “human animal” Humanness is typically defined by our capacity for language and abstract thinking. Yet decades of research led by the primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh has shown that chimpanzees and bonobos can acquire human language through signing and technology. Drawing on this research, Dialogues of the Human Ape brings Savage-Rumbaugh into conversation with the philosopher Laurent Dubreuil to explore the theoretical and practical dimensions of what being a “human animal” means. In their use of dialogue as the primary mode of philosophical and scientific inquiry, the authors transcend the rigidity of scientific and humanist discourses, offering a powerful model for the dissemination of speculative hypotheses and open-ended debates grounded in scientific research. Arguing that being human is an epigenetically driven process rather than a fixed characteristic rooted in genetics or culture, this book suggests that while humanness may not be possible in every species, it can emerge in certain supposedly nonhuman species. Moving beyond irrational critiques of ape consciousness that are motivated by arrogant, anthropocentric views, Dialogues on the Human Ape instead takes seriously the continuities between the ape mind and the human mind, addressing why language matters to consciousness, free will, and the formation of the “human animal” self.