Michael C Corballis
Biographic Data
| ID | 181490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael C Corballis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael C |
| FAMILY NAME | Corballis |
| SIGNATURE | CORBALLIS M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3126-6114 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Freeing Up the Mind
Psychology has generally had a rather stunted view of the mind. In the behaviorist era it essentially denied the existence of mind altogether, and even the cognitive revolution seemed to promote a rigid view of the mind as tied to specific inputs. This began to change when Endel Tulving proposed episodic memory as the conscious replaying of past events-a conception that was later broadened into the more general concept of mental time travel: the …
The Darker Side
Joint and individual tool making in preschoolers: From social to cognitive processes
Tool making has been proposed as a key force in driving the complexity of human material culture. The ontogeny of tool‐related behaviors hinges on social, representational, and creative factors. In this study, we test the associations between these factors in development across two different cultures. Results of Study 1 with 5‐to‐6‐year‐old Turkish children in dyadic or individual settings show that tool making is facilitated by social interactio…
The social origins of language
From my perspective, this book does not begin well. We read, on the first page, that ‘all human languages are built up from a large repertoire of learned, modifiable sounds’ (9). Those who use or k
Language and Handedness
The origins of language: A slim guide
The origins of language: a slim guide." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 37(4), pp. 439–441
Mirror Neurons, Theory of
How language evolved from manual gestures
Several lines of evidence suggest that human language originated in manual gestures, not vocal calls. These are the ability of nonhuman primates to use manual action flexibly and intentionally, the nature of the primate mirror system and its homology with the language circuits in the human brain, the relative success in teaching apes to communicate manually rather than vocally, the ready invention of sophisticated signed languages by the deaf, th…
The Evolution of Human Language: Biolinguistic Perspectives
The way language as a human faculty has evolved is a question that preoccupies researchers from a wide spread of disciplines. In this book, a team of writers has been brought together to examine the evolution of language from a variety of such standpoints, including language's genetic basis, the anthropological context of its appearance, its formal structure, its relation to systems of cognition and thought, as well as its possible evolutionary a…
The evolution of foresight: What is mental time travel, and is it unique to humans?
In a dynamic world, mechanisms allowing prediction of future situations can provide a selective advantage. We suggest that memory systems differ in the degree of flexibility they offer for anticipatory behavior and put forward a corresponding taxonomy of prospection. The adaptive advantage of any memory system can only lie in what it contributes for future survival. The most flexible is episodic memory, which we suggest is part of a more general …
Bilateral disadvantage: Lack of interhemispheric cooperation in schizophrenia
Evolution of Communication Systems: A Comparative Approach
From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language
The Descent of MindPsychological Perspectives on Hominid Evolution
To most people, it seems obvious that there are major mental differences between humans and other species, but there is considerable debate over exactly how special our minds are, in what respects, and which the critical evolutionary events that have shaped us were. Some researchers claim language as a solely human, even defining, attribute, while others claim that only humans are truly conscious. These questions have been explored mainly by arch…
The Descent of Mind
Predicting reading ability from handedness measures
Word reading, hand skill on a peg-moving task and hand preference were measured in 203 children aged from 11-13 years. Differences in skill between the hands were largely attributable to variations in left-hand skill, consistent with the view that manual and cerebral asymmetry are due to the loss (pruning) of cells in the right hemisphere during development-a mechanism that may be dependent on the 'right shift' (rs +) gene postulated by Annett (1…
The Ambivalent Mind
Laterality and myth
Laterality and myth
Patterns of Rehearsal in Immediate Memory
Ten subjects watched series of eight digits and attempted to recall each series immediately after they had been presented. They were also required to rehearse aloud while the digits were being presented. Recordings from a throat microphone permitted accurate measurement of the timing of rehearsal. Six subjects rehearsed cumulatively, repeating all previous digits each time a new one appeared, at least up until presentation of the sixth. The other…
Beyond tests of significance: Estimating strength of effects in selected Anova designs
Some Difficulties with Difficulty: Note on Horst's “Matrix Factoring and Test Theory”
As a solution to the problem of “difficulty factors” in item analysis, Horst has proposed a technique for removing a binary simplex (difficulty) component from an item score matrix before calculating the covariance matrix. This technique is shown to fail in its objectives. It is based upon the false premise that the effects of difficulty variations and of variations in factor content combine additively in an item score matrix. The status of diffi…
Beyond tests of significance: Estimating strength of effects in selected Anova designs
Predicting reading ability from handedness measures
Word reading, hand skill on a peg-moving task and hand preference were measured in 203 children aged from 11-13 years. Differences in skill between the hands were largely attributable to variations in left-hand skill, consistent with the view that manual and cerebral asymmetry are due to the loss (pruning) of cells in the right hemisphere during development-a mechanism that may be dependent on the 'right shift' (rs +) gene postulated by Annett (1…
Some Difficulties with Difficulty: Note on Horst's “Matrix Factoring and Test Theory”
As a solution to the problem of “difficulty factors” in item analysis, Horst has proposed a technique for removing a binary simplex (difficulty) component from an item score matrix before calculating the covariance matrix. This technique is shown to fail in its objectives. It is based upon the false premise that the effects of difficulty variations and of variations in factor content combine additively in an item score matrix. The status of diffi…
Patterns of Rehearsal in Immediate Memory
Ten subjects watched series of eight digits and attempted to recall each series immediately after they had been presented. They were also required to rehearse aloud while the digits were being presented. Recordings from a throat microphone permitted accurate measurement of the timing of rehearsal. Six subjects rehearsed cumulatively, repeating all previous digits each time a new one appeared, at least up until presentation of the sixth. The other…
Beyond tests of significance: Estimating strength of effects in selected Anova designs
Laterality and myth
Laterality and myth
The Ambivalent Mind
Predicting reading ability from handedness measures
Word reading, hand skill on a peg-moving task and hand preference were measured in 203 children aged from 11-13 years. Differences in skill between the hands were largely attributable to variations in left-hand skill, consistent with the view that manual and cerebral asymmetry are due to the loss (pruning) of cells in the right hemisphere during development-a mechanism that may be dependent on the 'right shift' (rs +) gene postulated by Annett (1…
The Descent of MindPsychological Perspectives on Hominid Evolution
To most people, it seems obvious that there are major mental differences between humans and other species, but there is considerable debate over exactly how special our minds are, in what respects, and which the critical evolutionary events that have shaped us were. Some researchers claim language as a solely human, even defining, attribute, while others claim that only humans are truly conscious. These questions have been explored mainly by arch…
The Descent of Mind
From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language
Evolution of Communication Systems: A Comparative Approach
The evolution of foresight: What is mental time travel, and is it unique to humans?
In a dynamic world, mechanisms allowing prediction of future situations can provide a selective advantage. We suggest that memory systems differ in the degree of flexibility they offer for anticipatory behavior and put forward a corresponding taxonomy of prospection. The adaptive advantage of any memory system can only lie in what it contributes for future survival. The most flexible is episodic memory, which we suggest is part of a more general …
Bilateral disadvantage: Lack of interhemispheric cooperation in schizophrenia
The Evolution of Human Language: Biolinguistic Perspectives
The way language as a human faculty has evolved is a question that preoccupies researchers from a wide spread of disciplines. In this book, a team of writers has been brought together to examine the evolution of language from a variety of such standpoints, including language's genetic basis, the anthropological context of its appearance, its formal structure, its relation to systems of cognition and thought, as well as its possible evolutionary a…
How language evolved from manual gestures
Several lines of evidence suggest that human language originated in manual gestures, not vocal calls. These are the ability of nonhuman primates to use manual action flexibly and intentionally, the nature of the primate mirror system and its homology with the language circuits in the human brain, the relative success in teaching apes to communicate manually rather than vocally, the ready invention of sophisticated signed languages by the deaf, th…
Mirror Neurons, Theory of
Language and Handedness
The origins of language: A slim guide
The origins of language: a slim guide." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 37(4), pp. 439–441
Joint and individual tool making in preschoolers: From social to cognitive processes
Tool making has been proposed as a key force in driving the complexity of human material culture. The ontogeny of tool‐related behaviors hinges on social, representational, and creative factors. In this study, we test the associations between these factors in development across two different cultures. Results of Study 1 with 5‐to‐6‐year‐old Turkish children in dyadic or individual settings show that tool making is facilitated by social interactio…
The social origins of language
From my perspective, this book does not begin well. We read, on the first page, that ‘all human languages are built up from a large repertoire of learned, modifiable sounds’ (9). Those who use or k
The Darker Side
Freeing Up the Mind
Psychology has generally had a rather stunted view of the mind. In the behaviorist era it essentially denied the existence of mind altogether, and even the cognitive revolution seemed to promote a rigid view of the mind as tied to specific inputs. This began to change when Endel Tulving proposed episodic memory as the conscious replaying of past events-a conception that was later broadened into the more general concept of mental time travel: the …
Psychology (16 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Cognitive science (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works)