Friday, January 30, 2015

Dear Students!

On the 4th of February we will have our first public lecture on the topic of "Plasticity and enculturation in animal cognition and language learning".

This is our reading list for the seminar:


1) Origins of language in a comparative perspective (Griebel & Oller, In LaFreniere & Weisfeld, 2014)
(obligatory!)

2) On Quantitative Comparative Research in Communication and Language Evolution
(D. Kimbrough Oller & Ulrike Griebel 2014, Biolog. Theory) (not obligatory)


Please post your comments by 9am on the 4th of February!!

Have fun!

cheers

Julia

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

DEAR STUDENTS!

WELCOME TO THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SEMINAR ABOUT THE EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF BRAIN, CULTURE, AND LANGUAGE!!

We are looking forward to a semester of very interesting reading materials, exciting talks, hot discussions, and deep thoughts, and we expect to have tons of fun on the way!

On this site we will post weekly information about new reading materials which you will get by mail to the e-mail address you supplied, but also from a designated folder on the UM drive.

We also expect you to post comments, questions, criticisms, kudos, or other wise thoughts about the reading materials on this blog and encourage you to respond to or comment on each others posts. Posts need to be in by Wednesday morning at 9am!!

This will help us to focus class discussions on areas of interest, or misunderstandings, and we will try to provide you with further information on these topics!


Your CogSciTeam

Kim, Stan, and Julia (Ulrike Griebel)