A5071512605- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Language Development and Disorders
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Language and cultural evolution
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Infant Health and Development
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Representations and Identity
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
2016-2025
Duke University
2016-2025
Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli
2025
Max Planck Society
2012-2023
Walter de Gruyter (Germany)
2015-2021
Emory University
1993-2017
Harvard University Press
2016
Google (United States)
1984-2015
University of Manchester
2003-2013
Leiden University
2011
At around 1 year of age, human infants display a number new behaviors that seem to indicate newly emerging understanding other persons as intentional beings whose attention outside objects may be shared, followed into, and directed in various ways. These have mostly been studied separately. In the current study, we investigated most important these together they emerged single group 24 between 9 15 months age. each seven monthly visits, measured joint attentional engagement, gaze point...
Abstract This target article presents a theory of human cultural learning. Cultural learning is identified with those instances social in which intersubjectivity or perspective-taking plays vital role, both the original process and resulting cognitive product. manifests itself three forms during ontogeny: imitative learning, instructed collaborative – that order. Evidence provided this progression arises from developmental ordering underlying social-cognitive concepts processes involved....
Human beings routinely help others to achieve their goals, even when the helper receives no immediate benefit and person helped is a stranger. Such altruistic behaviors (toward non-kin) are extremely rare evolutionarily, with some theorists proposing that they uniquely human. Here we show human children as young 18 months of age (prelinguistic or just-linguistic) quite readily goals in variety different situations. This requires both an understanding others' motivation help. In addition,...
Humans have many cognitive skills not possessed by their nearest primate relatives. The cultural intelligence hypothesis argues that this is mainly due to a species-specific set of social-cognitive skills, emerging early in ontogeny, for participating and exchanging knowledge groups. We tested giving comprehensive battery tests large numbers two humans' closest relatives, chimpanzees orangutans, as well 2.5-year-old human children before literacy schooling. Supporting the contradicting...
This paper reports 2 studies that explore the role of joint attentional processes in child's acquisition language. In first study, 24 children were videotaped at 15 and 21 months age naturalistic interaction with their mothers. Episodes focus between mother child--for example, play an object--were identified. Inside, as opposed to outside, these episodes both mothers produced more utterances, used shorter sentences comments, dyads engaged longer conversations. Inside maternal references...
Some researchers have claimed that chimpanzee and human culture rest on homologous cognitive learning mechanisms. While clearly there are some mechanisms, we argue here different mechanisms at work as well. Chimpanzee cultural traditions represent behavioural biases of populations, all within the species’ existing repertoire (what call ‘zone latent solutions’) generated by founder effects, individual mostly product-oriented (rather than process-oriented) copying. Human culture, in contrast,...
Dogs are more skillful than great apes at a number of tasks in which they must read human communicative signals indicating the location hidden food. In this study, we found that wolves who were raised by humans do not show these same skills, whereas domestic dog puppies only few weeks old, even those have had little contact, skills. These findings suggest during process domestication, dogs been selected for set social-cognitive abilities enable them to communicate with unique ways.
The current article proposes a new theory of infant pointing involving multiple layers intentionality and shared intentionality. In the context this theory, evidence is presented for rich interpretation prelinguistic communication, that is, one posits when 12-month-old infants point an adult they are in some sense trying to influence her mental states. Moreover, also deeply social view which best understood--on many levels ways--as depending on uniquely human skills motivations cooperation...
We argue for the importance of processes shared intentionality in children's early cognitive development. look briefly at four important social-cognitive skills and how they are transformed by intentionality. In each case, we first a kind individualistic version skill -- as exemplified most clearly behavior chimpanzees then based on human 1- 2-year-olds. thus see following transformations: gaze into joint attention, social manipulation cooperative communication, group activity collaboration,...