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Author : Kathleen R. Gibson,Kathleen Rita Gibson,Tim Ingold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Computers
ISBN : 052148541X
Looks at how humans have evolved complex behaviours such as language and culture.
Author : April Nowell,Iain Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39076002878424
Stone tools are the most durable and common type of archaeological remain and one of the most important sources of information about behaviors of early hominins. Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition develops methods for examining questions of cognition, demonstrating the progression of mental capabilities from early hominins to modern humans through the archaeological record. Dating as far back as 2.5-2.7 million years ago, stone tools were used in cutting up animals, woodworking, and preparing vegetable matter. Today, lithic remains give archaeologists insight into the forethought, planning, and enhanced working memory of our early ancestors. Contributors focus on multiple ways in which archaeologists can investigate the relationship between tools and the evolving human mind-including joint attention, pattern recognition, memory usage, and the emergence of language. Offering a wide range of approaches and diversity of place and time, the chapters address issues such as skill, social learning, technique, language, and cognition based on lithic technology. Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition will be of interest to Paleolithic archaeologists and paleoanthropologists interested in stone tool technology and cognitive evolution.
Author : James R. Hurford,Michael Studdert-Kennedy,Chris Knight
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521639646
This book considers language within the framework of modern evolutionary theory, emphasising its social bases.
Author : Ronald Planer,Kim Sterelny
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262045971
A novel account of the evolution of language and the cognitive capacities on which language depends. In From Signal to Symbol, Ronald Planer and Kim Sterelny propose a novel theory of language: that modern language is the product of a long series of increasingly rich protolanguages evolving over the last two million years. Arguing that language and cognition coevolved, they give a central role to archaeological evidence and attempt to infer cognitive capacities on the basis of that evidence, which they link in turn to communicative capacities. Countering other accounts, which move directly from archaeological traces to language, Planer and Sterelny show that rudimentary forms of many of the elements on which language depends can be found in the great apes and were part of the equipment of the earliest species in our lineage. After outlining the constraints a theory of the evolution of language should satisfy and filling in the details of their model, they take up the evolution of words, composite utterances, and hierarchical structure. They consider the transition from a predominantly gestural to a predominantly vocal form of language and discuss the economic and social factors that led to language. Finally, they evaluate their theory in terms of the constraints previously laid out.
Author : Sophie A. de Beaune,Frederick L. Coolidge,Thomas Wynn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521769778
This book uses evidence from empirical studies to understand conditions that led to the development of cognitive processes during evolution.
Author : Jonas Langer,Melanie Killen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-06-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135690984
Based on the 25th Anniversary Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, this book represents cutting-edge work on the mechanisms of cognitive, social, and cultural development. The authors-anthropologists, biologists, historians of science, paleontologists, and psychologists-believe that a rebirth is in progress relating to the study of these mental developments. This volume seeks to illuminate this rebirth. The varied findings and approaches reported reveal that contemporary comparative research on mental development is in a phase of differentiation and integration. Far from being global and fused, this comparative study is a flowering field of diverse disciplinary approaches, empirical phenomena, scholarly topics, and theoretical perspectives. It focuses on the comparative phylogeny, ontogeny, and history of mentation-most notably on the comparative onset and offset ages, velocity, extent, sequencing, organization of thought, symbol, and value development. The world's leading authorities on the subject discuss the implications of the study of evolution for our models of the ontogenetic origins, development, and history of mentation, as well as determine the constraints that evolution imposes on mental development. Bringing the current interest in primate cognition to bear on studies of cognitive development in humans, this book will be of interest cognitive developmentalists, primatologists and comparitive psychologists.
Author : Peter Carruthers,Andrew Chamberlain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521789087
This volume of essays offers an interdisciplinary examination of the evolution of the human mind.
Author : John Monaghan,Luc Trouche,Jonathan M. Borwein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319023960
This book is an exploration of tools and mathematics and issues in mathematics education related to tool use. The book has five parts. The first part reflects on doing a mathematical task with different tools, followed by a mathematician's account of tool use in his work. The second considers prehistory and history: tools in the development from ape to human; tools and mathematics in the ancient world; tools for calculating; and tools in mathematics instruction. The third part opens with a broad review of technology and intellectual trends, circa 1970, and continues with three case studies of approaches in mathematics education and the place of tools in these approaches. The fourth part considers issues related to mathematics instructions: curriculum, assessment and policy; the calculator debate; mathematics in the real world; and teachers' use of technology. The final part looks to the future: task and tool design and new forms of activity via connectivity and computer games.
Author : April Nowell
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789201697
The last decade has witnessed a sophistication and proliferation in the number of studies focused on the evolution of human cognition, reflecting a renewed interest in the evolution of the human mind in anthropology and in many other disciplines. The complexity and enormity of this topic requires the coordinated efforts of many researchers. This volume brings together the disciplines of palaeontology, psychology, anatomy, and primatology. Together, they address a number of issues, including the evolution of sex differences in spatial cognition, the role of archaeology in the cognitive sciences, the relationships between brain size, cranial reorganization and hominid cognition, and the role of language and information processing in human evolution.
Author : Fiona Coward,Robert Hosfield,Matt Pope,Francis Wenban-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781107026889
This volume provides a narrative of early hominin evolution, linking material aspects of the early archaeological record with social, cognitive and symbolic landscapes.
Author : Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Thomas Wynn,Thomas Wynn,Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Co-Director Karenleigh Overmann,Karenleigh Overmann,Frederick Coolidge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1329 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780192895950
This book showcases the theories, methods, and accomplishments of archaeologists who investigate the human mind through material forms. It encompasses the wide spectrum of cognitive archeology, showcasing contributions from scholars globally. It delivers analysis of material culture, from stone tools to ceramic and rock art of the past millennium.
Author : Jef Verschueren,Jan-Ola Östman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 1906 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257680
The Manual section of the Handbook of Pragmatics, produced under the auspices of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), is a collection of articles describing traditions, methods, and notational systems relevant to the field of linguistic pragmatics; the main body of the Handbook contains all topical articles. The first edition of the Manual was published in 1995. This second edition includes a large number of new traditions and methods articles from the 24 annual installments of the Handbook that have been published so far. It also includes revised versions of some of the entries in the first edition. In addition, a cumulative index provides cross-references to related topical entries in the annual installments of the Handbook and the Handbook of Pragmatics Online (at https://benjamins.com/online/hop/), which continues to be updated and expanded. This second edition of the Manual is intended to facilitate access to the most comprehensive resource available today for any scholar interested in pragmatics as defined by the International Pragmatics Association: “the science of language use, in its widest interdisciplinary sense as a functional (i.e. cognitive, social, and cultural) perspective on language and communication.”
Author : Anne Reboul
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198747314
This book proposes a new two-step approach to the evolution of language, whereby syntax first evolved as an auto-organizational process for the human conceptual apparatus (as a Language of Thought), and this Language of Thought was then externalized for communication, due to social selection pressures. Anne Reboul first argues that despite the routine use of language in communication, current use is not a failsafe guide to adaptive history. She points out that human cognition is as unique in nature as is language as a communication system, suggesting deep links between human thought and language. If language is seen as a communication system, then the specificities of language, its hierarchical syntax, its creativity, and the ability to use it to talk about absent objects, are a mystery. This book shows that approaching language as a system for thought overcomes these problems, and provides a detailed account of both steps in the evolution of language: its evolution for thought and its externalization for communication.
Author : Héctor M. Manrique,Michael J. Walker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319644479
This work examines the cognitive capacity of great apes in order to better understand early man and the importance of memory in the evolutionary process. It synthesizes research from comparative cognition, neuroscience, primatology as well as lithic archaeology, reviewing findings on the cognitive ability of great apes to recognize the physical properties of an object and then determine the most effective way in which to manipulate it as a tool to achieve a specific goal. The authors argue that apes (Hominoidea) lack the human cognitive ability of imagining how to blend reality, which requires drawing on memory in order to envisage alternative future situations, and thereby modifying behavior determined by procedural memory. This book reviews neuroscientific findings on short-term working memory, long-term procedural memory, prospective memory, and imaginative forward thinking in relation to manual behavior. Since the manipulation of objects by Hominoidea in the wild (particularly in order to obtain food) is regarded as underlying the evolution of behavior in early Hominids, contrasts are highlighted between the former and the latter, especially the cognitive implications of ancient stone-tool preparation.
Author : Richard D. Janda,Brian D. Joseph,Barbara S. Vance
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118732267
An entirely new follow-up volume providing a detailed account of numerous additional issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics. This brand-new, second volume of The Handbook of Historical Linguistics is a complement to the well-established first volume first published in 2003. It includes extended content allowing uniquely comprehensive coverage of the study of language(s) over time. Though it adds fresh perspectives on several topics previously treated in the first volume, this Handbook focuses on extensions of diachronic linguistics beyond those key issues. This Handbook provides readers with studies of language change whose perspectives range from comparisons of large open vs. small closed corpora, via creolistics and linguistic contact in general, to obsolescence and endangerment of languages. Written by leading scholars in their respective fields, new chapters are offered on matters such as the origin of language, evidence from language for reconstructing human prehistory, invocations of language present in studies of language past, benefits of linguistic fieldwork for historical investigation, ways in which not only biological evolution but also field biology can serve as heuristics for research into the rise and spread of linguistic innovations, and more. Moreover, it: offers novel and broadened content complementing the earlier volume so as to provide the fullest available overview of a wholly engrossing field includes 23 all-new contributed chapters, treating some familiar themes from fresh perspectives but mostly covering entirely new topics features expanded discussion of material from language families other than Indo-European provides a multiplicity of views from numerous specialists in linguistic diachrony. The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II is an ideal book for undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics, researchers and professional linguists, as well as all those interested in the history of particular languages and the history of language more generally.