Marc D Hauser
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 91345 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Marc D Hauser |
| PRENOMES | Marc D |
| SOBRENOME | Hauser |
| ASSINATURA | HAUSER M D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5392-8510 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Philosophy after Darwin
The mystery of language evolution
Understanding the evolution of language requires evidence regarding origins and processes that led to change. In the last 40 years, there has been an explosion of research on this problem as well as a sense that considerable progress has been made. We argue instead that the richness of ideas is accompanied by a poverty of evidence, with essentially no explanation of how and why our linguistic computations and representations evolved. We show that…
The faculty of language
We argue that an understanding of the faculty of language requires substantial interdisciplinary cooperation. We suggest how current developments in linguistics can be profitably wedded to work in evolutionary biology, anthropology, psychology, and neuroscience. We submit that a distinction should be made between the faculty of language in the broad sense (FLB) and in the narrow sense (FLN). FLB includes a sensory-motor system, a conceptual-inten…
The Evolution of Human Language
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…
Evolutionary Linguistics
This article explores the evolution of language, focusing on insights derived from observations and experiments in animals, guided by current theoretical problems that were inspired by the generative theory of grammar, and carried forward in substantial ways to the present by psycholinguists working on child language acquisition. We suggest that over the past few years, there has been a shift with respect to empirical studies of animals targeting…
Noise‐induced vocal modulation in cotton‐top tamarins ( Saguinus oedipus )
The Lombard effect—an increase in vocalization amplitude in response to an increase in background noise—is observed in a wide variety of animals. We investigated this basic form of vocal control in the cotton‐top tamarin ( Saguinus oedipus ) by measuring the amplitude of a contact call, the combination long call (CLC), while simultaneously varying the background noise level. All subjects showed a significant increase in call amplitude and syllabl…
Cotton-Top Tamarins' (Saguinus oedipus) Expectations About Occluded Objects
Recent work with human infants and toddlers suggests a dissociation between performance on looking and reaching tasks. Specifically, infants appear to generate accurate representations of occluded objects and their actions when tested in expectancy violation looking tasks but often fail to use this information when reaching for occluded objects. We explore a similar dissociation in cotton-top tamarin monkeys (Saguinus oedipus). We presented adult…
The evolution of the language faculty
The Faculty of Language
We argue that an understanding of the faculty of language requires substantial interdisciplinary cooperation. We suggest how current developments in linguistics can be profitably wedded to work in evolutionary biology, anthropology, psychology, and neuroscience. We submit that a distinction should be made between the faculty of language in the broad sense (FLB) and in the narrow sense (FLN). FLB includes a sensory-motor system, a conceptual-inten…
Minding the behaviour of deception
Introduction In the pain of his passion, Cyrano de Bergerac fed Christian a suite of elegantly crafted lines designed to capture Roxanne's heart. Cyrano's act was clearly deceptive. Christian knew that he was being deceptive, but did not know the basis for Cyrano's apparent act of generosity. And then there is Roxanne, who believes that the handsome Christian is a poetic spirit able to weave verse that strikes at the heart. She is, of course, dec…
The Evolution of Communication
Bound to become a classic and to stimulate debate and research, The Evolution of Communication looks at species in their natural environments as a way to begin to understand what the real units of analysis of communicating systems are, using arguments about design and function to illuminate both the origin and subsequent evolution of each system. It lights the way for a research program that seriously addresses the problem of how communication sy…
Vocal production in nonhuman primates
The physiological mechanisms and acoustic principles underlying sound production in primates are important for analyzing and synthesizing primate vocalizations, for determining the range of calls that are physically producible, and for understanding primate communication in the broader comparative context of what is known about communication in other vertebrates. In this paper we discuss what is known about vocal production in nonhuman primates, …
Language Comprehension in Ape and Child Monograph No. 233 . E. Sue Savage‐Rumbaugh, J. Murphy, R. A. Sevcik, K. E. Brakke, S. L. Williams , and D. M. Rumbaugh
How monkeys feel about how they see the world
A contribution to tropical rain forest taphonomy
Concept Attribution in Nonhuman Animals
The demise of behaviorism has made ethologists more willing to ascribe mental states to animals. However, a methodology that can avoid the charge of excessive anthropomorphism is needed. We describe a series of experiments that could help determine whether the behavior of nonhuman animals towards dead conspecifics is concept mediated. These experiments form the basis of a general point. The behavior of some animals is clearly guided by complex me…
Biological Anthropology
Group extinction and fusion in free‐ranging vervet monkeys
Three cases of group fusion were observed among vervet monkeys in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, during the 1984 drought. In all cases, group fusion involved the migration of at least two females into a small neighboring group. Following migration, the females' natal groups ceased to exist. Although migrants initially assumed low ranks, none received high rates of aggression, and two rose in rank 6 months after their arrival. Migrant females appe…
The mystery of language evolution
Understanding the evolution of language requires evidence regarding origins and processes that led to change. In the last 40 years, there has been an explosion of research on this problem as well as a sense that considerable progress has been made. We argue instead that the richness of ideas is accompanied by a poverty of evidence, with essentially no explanation of how and why our linguistic computations and representations evolved. We show that…
Concept Attribution in Nonhuman Animals
The demise of behaviorism has made ethologists more willing to ascribe mental states to animals. However, a methodology that can avoid the charge of excessive anthropomorphism is needed. We describe a series of experiments that could help determine whether the behavior of nonhuman animals towards dead conspecifics is concept mediated. These experiments form the basis of a general point. The behavior of some animals is clearly guided by complex me…
A contribution to tropical rain forest taphonomy
Evolutionary Linguistics
This article explores the evolution of language, focusing on insights derived from observations and experiments in animals, guided by current theoretical problems that were inspired by the generative theory of grammar, and carried forward in substantial ways to the present by psycholinguists working on child language acquisition. We suggest that over the past few years, there has been a shift with respect to empirical studies of animals targeting…
How monkeys feel about how they see the world
Group extinction and fusion in free‐ranging vervet monkeys
Three cases of group fusion were observed among vervet monkeys in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, during the 1984 drought. In all cases, group fusion involved the migration of at least two females into a small neighboring group. Following migration, the females' natal groups ceased to exist. Although migrants initially assumed low ranks, none received high rates of aggression, and two rose in rank 6 months after their arrival. Migrant females appe…
Biological Anthropology
Concept Attribution in Nonhuman Animals
The demise of behaviorism has made ethologists more willing to ascribe mental states to animals. However, a methodology that can avoid the charge of excessive anthropomorphism is needed. We describe a series of experiments that could help determine whether the behavior of nonhuman animals towards dead conspecifics is concept mediated. These experiments form the basis of a general point. The behavior of some animals is clearly guided by complex me…
A contribution to tropical rain forest taphonomy
Language Comprehension in Ape and Child Monograph No. 233 . E. Sue Savage‐Rumbaugh, J. Murphy, R. A. Sevcik, K. E. Brakke, S. L. Williams , and D. M. Rumbaugh
How monkeys feel about how they see the world
Vocal production in nonhuman primates
The physiological mechanisms and acoustic principles underlying sound production in primates are important for analyzing and synthesizing primate vocalizations, for determining the range of calls that are physically producible, and for understanding primate communication in the broader comparative context of what is known about communication in other vertebrates. In this paper we discuss what is known about vocal production in nonhuman primates, …
The Evolution of Communication
Bound to become a classic and to stimulate debate and research, The Evolution of Communication looks at species in their natural environments as a way to begin to understand what the real units of analysis of communicating systems are, using arguments about design and function to illuminate both the origin and subsequent evolution of each system. It lights the way for a research program that seriously addresses the problem of how communication sy…
Minding the behaviour of deception
Introduction In the pain of his passion, Cyrano de Bergerac fed Christian a suite of elegantly crafted lines designed to capture Roxanne's heart. Cyrano's act was clearly deceptive. Christian knew that he was being deceptive, but did not know the basis for Cyrano's apparent act of generosity. And then there is Roxanne, who believes that the handsome Christian is a poetic spirit able to weave verse that strikes at the heart. She is, of course, dec…
The Faculty of Language
We argue that an understanding of the faculty of language requires substantial interdisciplinary cooperation. We suggest how current developments in linguistics can be profitably wedded to work in evolutionary biology, anthropology, psychology, and neuroscience. We submit that a distinction should be made between the faculty of language in the broad sense (FLB) and in the narrow sense (FLN). FLB includes a sensory-motor system, a conceptual-inten…
The evolution of the language faculty
Noise‐induced vocal modulation in cotton‐top tamarins ( Saguinus oedipus )
The Lombard effect—an increase in vocalization amplitude in response to an increase in background noise—is observed in a wide variety of animals. We investigated this basic form of vocal control in the cotton‐top tamarin ( Saguinus oedipus ) by measuring the amplitude of a contact call, the combination long call (CLC), while simultaneously varying the background noise level. All subjects showed a significant increase in call amplitude and syllabl…
Cotton-Top Tamarins' (Saguinus oedipus) Expectations About Occluded Objects
Recent work with human infants and toddlers suggests a dissociation between performance on looking and reaching tasks. Specifically, infants appear to generate accurate representations of occluded objects and their actions when tested in expectancy violation looking tasks but often fail to use this information when reaching for occluded objects. We explore a similar dissociation in cotton-top tamarin monkeys (Saguinus oedipus). We presented adult…
Evolutionary Linguistics
This article explores the evolution of language, focusing on insights derived from observations and experiments in animals, guided by current theoretical problems that were inspired by the generative theory of grammar, and carried forward in substantial ways to the present by psycholinguists working on child language acquisition. We suggest that over the past few years, there has been a shift with respect to empirical studies of animals targeting…
The faculty of language
We argue that an understanding of the faculty of language requires substantial interdisciplinary cooperation. We suggest how current developments in linguistics can be profitably wedded to work in evolutionary biology, anthropology, psychology, and neuroscience. We submit that a distinction should be made between the faculty of language in the broad sense (FLB) and in the narrow sense (FLN). FLB includes a sensory-motor system, a conceptual-inten…
The Evolution of Human Language
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 mystery of language evolution
Understanding the evolution of language requires evidence regarding origins and processes that led to change. In the last 40 years, there has been an explosion of research on this problem as well as a sense that considerable progress has been made. We argue instead that the richness of ideas is accompanied by a poverty of evidence, with essentially no explanation of how and why our linguistic computations and representations evolved. We show that…
Philosophy after Darwin
Psychology (14 obras) · Computer Science (11 obras) · Philosophy (10 obras) · Language and cultural evolution (7 obras) · Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (6 obras) · Biology (6 obras) · Cognitive science (6 obras) · Communication (5 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras) · Linguistics (5 obras)