[BERG] BERG seminar today, 16:00

[Pawel Fedurek]

Dear BERGers,



A quick reminder that today Dr Stuart Watson (University of Zurich) is giving a seminar entitled "From meaningful meerkats to pattern-processing primates: cross-species insights to the problem of language evolution".


Abstract: Language is a uniquely powerful, and uniquely human, means of communication. However, the narrow historical window of language we have access to makes determining the ‘whens’, ‘whys’ and ‘hows’ of its origins challenging. A broad, cross-species comparative approach is necessary to identify precisely which features of language are indeed unique, and which are shared with our animal cousins, thereby shedding light on their evolutionary history. Towards this end, here I will present findings from two recent studies investigating: (a) the underlying ‘meaning’ of the functionally referential alarm calls in wild meerkats using a 'model predator' experiment and (b) the shared capacity to process syntax-like acoustic structures in monkeys, apes and humans using an ’artificial grammar' experiment.



See you later! The link to the meeting, as well as a list of the forthcoming speakers, are below this email.



Best wishes,

Pawel



Link to the meeting:



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Forthcoming seminars:


Date    Time    Speaker Affiliation     Seminar title
06/04/2022      16:00   Stuart Watson   University of Zurich    From meaningful meerkats to pattern-processing primates: cross-species insights to the problem of language evolution
13/04/2022      16:00   Bruce Rawlings  Durham University       TBC, cumulative culture
20/04/2022      16:00   Gema Martin-Ordas       University of Stirling  TBC, reporting p values in primate tool use research
27/04/2022      16:00   André Pereira   University of Exeter    TBC
04/05/2022      16:00   Laura Lewis     Harvard University      TBC, bonobo cognition
11/05/2022      16:00   Alexander Weiss University of Edinburgh TBC
18/05/2022      16:00   Sabrina Brando  University of Stirling  TBC
25/05/2022      16:00   Shelley Culpepper       University of Stirling  Interspecific Olfactory Perception of Human Emotions: From the Horses Perspective


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