Acquired Minimally Gricean Action Comprehension in Chimpanzees DOI
Derry Taylor,

A. Y. Jackson,

Gökhan Gönül

et al.

Published: Jan. 1, 2023

Grice’s famous contention - that to comprehend meaningful communication, an agent must be capable of comprehending the intentions a signaller is regarded as centrepiece cognitive linguistics. Grice demands receivers grasp signallers’ in relation their own intentions, thereby requiring ability recognise whether or not behaviour directed at them. What are evolutionary origins this component language faculty? Breaking new methodological ground, we used human demonstrators perform action sequences near juvenile (N=8) and adult (N=14) wild chimpanzees. Action comprised ordinary, harmless, everyday activities, but without apparent goal intention, i.e., repeatedly placing pair binoculars on forest floor. The sequence was therefore intrinsically meaningless for chimpanzees, yet accompanied with eye-gaze suggest meant Despite fact all subjects had been observed by humans years near-daily basis, found adults, juveniles, significantly avoided looked less towards them if gaze, suggesting recognising communication emerges late ontogeny. Moreover, chimpanzees history negative experiences (i.e, veterinary interventions) showed particular sensitivity how gaze paired others did not. Importantly, these individuals were normally just indifferent observers others, seemed specifically dislike unclear behavioural provided they Together, our results discriminate between actions those not, capacity rooted experience. We discuss implications findings current debate competing theoretical accounts mind-reading, script theory, its language.

Language: Английский

The origin of great ape gestural forms DOI Creative Commons
Kirsty E. Graham, Federico Rossano, Richard Moore

et al.

Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Aug. 27, 2024

ABSTRACT Two views claim to account for the origins of great ape gestural forms. On Leipzig view, forms are ontogenetically ritualised from action sequences between pairs individuals. St Andrews gestures product natural selection shared The view predicts within‐ and between‐group differences that arise as a learning in ontogeny. universal comprehensible within species because were target selection. We reject both accounts propose an alternative “recruitment view” gestures. According recruitment recruit features their existing behavioural repertoire communicative purposes. Their inherit functions visual (and sometimes tactile) presentations familiar easily recognisable schemas states parts body. To extent possess similar bodies, this mutual comprehensibility – but without supposing themselves targets Additionally, we locate communication pragmatic framework is continuous with human communication, make testable predications adjudicating three views. best explains data, does so mechanistic emphasises continuity non‐human communication.

Language: Английский

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Cultural evolution: A review of theoretical challenges DOI Creative Commons
Ryan Nichols, Mathieu Charbonneau, Azita Chellappoo

et al.

Evolutionary Human Sciences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 6

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Abstract The rapid growth of cultural evolutionary science, its expansion into numerous fields, use diverse methods, and several conceptual problems have outpaced corollary developments in theory philosophy science. This has led to concern, exemplified results from a recent survey conducted with members the Cultural Evolution Society, that field lacks ‘knowledge synthesis’, is poorly supported by ‘theory’, an ambiguous relation biological evolution uses key terms (e.g. ‘culture’, ‘social learning’, ‘cumulative culture’) ways hamper operationalization models, experiments studies. Although review papers represent categorize empirical findings, field's theoretical challenges receive less critical attention even though or nature underlie most identified Society members. Guided heterogeneous ‘grand challenges’ emergent this survey, paper restates those adopts organizational style requisite discussion them. paper's goal contribute increasing clarity discernment around pressing facing It will be interest scientists, theoreticians, philosophers science interdisciplinary researchers.

Language: Английский

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4
The Origin of Human Theory-of-Mind DOI Creative Commons
Teresa Bejarano

Humans, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 5(1), P. 5 - 5

Published: Feb. 12, 2025

Is there a qualitative difference between apes’ and humans ‘ability to estimate others’ mental states’, a.k.a. ‘Theory-of-Mind’? After opting for the idea that expectations are empty profiles recognize particular content when it arrives, I apply same description ‘vicarious expectations’—very probably present in apes. Thus, (empty) vicarious one’s (full) contents distinguished without needing meta-representation. Then, propose: First, enough support Theory-of-Mind (including ‘spontaneous altruism’). Second, since require profile previously built subject activates them, this cannot activate any expectation of states intrinsically impossible him. Third, your think me as distal individual me, therefore, must contents. This ability (the original nucleus human Theory-of-Mind) is essential lifestyle. It involved unpleasant pleasant self-conscious emotions, which respectively contribute ‘social order’ cultural innovations. More basically, makes possible (prelinguistic or linguistic) communication, originally made understanding addressed therefore me.

Language: Английский

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Expressives, directives and assertions: Cognitive dimensions of speech acts DOI Creative Commons
Hubert Hågemark, Peter Gärdenfors

Language & Communication, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 101, P. 84 - 104

Published: Feb. 24, 2025

Language: Английский

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The Communicative Principle of Relevance DOI
Thom Scott‐Phillips

Current Directions in Psychological Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Oct. 26, 2024

Any behavior humans can perform, they be performed in an “ostensive” way, that is, overtly attracting attention and providing evidence of meaning. The communicative principle relevance is a lawlike generalization about ostensive stimuli hence human communication. Here I present the as pair simple general empirical statements: one on audience side communicator side. also summarize recent developments: Experimental tests have proved supportive, theoretical analyses connected to evolutionary developmental perspectives, has been used more broadly than before, far beyond traditional domains semantics pragmatics. These developments consolidate fundamental understanding interaction.

Language: Английский

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A case for animal reference: beyond functional reference and meaning attribution DOI Creative Commons
Giulia Palazzolo

Synthese, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 203(2)

Published: Feb. 6, 2024

Abstract Reference is a basic feature of human language. A much debated question in the scholarship on animal communication and language evolution whether traces capacity for reference can be found animals too. Do refer to things with their signals manner that humans do? Or something unique communication? Answers these questions have shifted significantly over years remain contentious. In this paper, I start by reconstructing critically analysing three influential discussions ways which refer: theory functional (Marler, Evans Hauser, 1992), Wheeler Fischer (2012)’s meaning attribution framework, Scarantino (2013)’s revised definition reference. show reference, both its traditional version, as well fail adequately characterise an evolutionary precursor linguistic This because they all overlook at least some aspects psychology signal production. Nonetheless, drawing Crockford et al. (2012, 2017), we plausibly interpret chimpanzees’ alert hoos case intentional, human-like

Language: Английский

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Crianza comparada pero no revuelta: el trabajo de Nadezda N. Ladygina-Kohts con el chimpancé Joni y el humano Roody DOI Open Access
Rubén Gómez Soriano,

José Carlos Loredo Narciandi

Achta Scientiarum Human Social Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 46(1), P. e71026 - e71026

Published: May 10, 2024

En los años previos a la Revolución de Octubre, rusa Nadezda N. Ladygina-Kohts llevó cabo una investigación en el campo primatología comparada que sentaría las bases para un paradigma experimental aún vigente. Desarrolló serie observaciones y experimentos con cría chimpancé llamada Joni, crió su propio hogar. Repitió Roody, hijo, mismas había realizado chimpancé, comparando similitudes diferencias entre ellos. El trabajo fue muy valorado época autores tan conocidos como Yerkes, Köhler o Harlow se hicieron eco del mismo e intercambiaron correspondencia ella visitaron Laboratorio Zoología Museo Darwiniano Moscú, cual codirectora junto marido Alexander Kohts. estudio comparativo hijo pionero psicología aplicada primates, otras cosas, por conseguir criar periodo más menos largo, demostrar vez primera animal era capaz cierto pensamiento abstracto. Pese ello, La niño humano [Infant Chimpanzee and Human Child], libro plasmó dicha publicó 1935, no tradujo ruso al inglés hasta 2002. Es esa edición inglesa analizamos aquí desde sensibilidad genealógica. Situamos obra estela procesos crianza, comparándola así otros escritos Esbozo biográfico bebé Darwin, perteneciente tradición diarios crianza remonta últimos siglo XVIII. También abordamos lo toca importancia sugerimos posibles elementos vigencia misma.

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‘Gricean’ and ‘Ladyginian’ Communication: A Distinction in Search of a Difference DOI Open Access
Richard Moore

Published: Nov. 7, 2023

In a recent PNAS Perspective, Scott-Phillips and Heintz propose new account of the differences betweem great ape human communication. They are argue that while humans Gricean communicators, so ‘language ready’, apes merely ‘Ladyginian’ communicators. I they fail to make any plausible distinction between Ladyginian communication, consequently their proposed fails. A better hypothesis is albeit ones comparatively limited capacity.

Language: Английский

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Acquired Minimally Gricean Action Comprehension in Chimpanzees DOI
Derry Taylor,

A. Y. Jackson,

Gökhan Gönül

et al.

Published: Jan. 1, 2023

Grice’s famous contention - that to comprehend meaningful communication, an agent must be capable of comprehending the intentions a signaller is regarded as centrepiece cognitive linguistics. Grice demands receivers grasp signallers’ in relation their own intentions, thereby requiring ability recognise whether or not behaviour directed at them. What are evolutionary origins this component language faculty? Breaking new methodological ground, we used human demonstrators perform action sequences near juvenile (N=8) and adult (N=14) wild chimpanzees. Action comprised ordinary, harmless, everyday activities, but without apparent goal intention, i.e., repeatedly placing pair binoculars on forest floor. The sequence was therefore intrinsically meaningless for chimpanzees, yet accompanied with eye-gaze suggest meant Despite fact all subjects had been observed by humans years near-daily basis, found adults, juveniles, significantly avoided looked less towards them if gaze, suggesting recognising communication emerges late ontogeny. Moreover, chimpanzees history negative experiences (i.e, veterinary interventions) showed particular sensitivity how gaze paired others did not. Importantly, these individuals were normally just indifferent observers others, seemed specifically dislike unclear behavioural provided they Together, our results discriminate between actions those not, capacity rooted experience. We discuss implications findings current debate competing theoretical accounts mind-reading, script theory, its language.

Language: Английский

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