Week3

更新中 · 笔记范围：持续补充

Stephen Mithen: cognitive fluidity / domain specific intelligence - combine knowledge

  • Social
  • Technical
  • Natural history

Human brain vs chimpanzee

  • Human brain size ~1300 cc; chimp: ~300 cc
  • Social brain hypothesis - keep track of relationships ~150 people
  • Social maintenance - Chimp (Social grooming) -> gesture -> vocalization -> physical symbols

Symbols in the past

  • Archaeological - represents times and places
  • Utilitarian
  • Non-utilitarian
  • Differences

Can apes learn language?

  • Non-verbal ;
  • sign language (gorilla”koko”, “reportedlly” use displacement and abstract concepts);
  • lexigrams (abstract image representing a word) (bonobos “kanzi”) Kanzi understand opken English.
  • Human communication is uniquely complex

Academic papers

Anatomy of a research paper

  • Abstract
  • Introduction - “The Problem”
  • Methods (In Nature and Science (short format) - may be after the conclusion section)
  • Results
  • Discussion - next step…
  • Conclusion
  • References

Read

  • Title - abstract - figures and captions - conclusion
  • Identify the question/focus