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"Cultural Learning, Imitation, and Articraft Understanding: A Comparative Perspective"

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György Gergely, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Developmental Research Institute for Psychological Research, Budapest

Gergely Csibra, György Gergely - Social learning and social cognition - The case for pedagogy

György Gergely, Gergely Csibra - Teleological reasoning in infancy: The one-year-old’s naïve theory of rational action

Krista Casler and Deborah Kelemen - Young children’s rapid learning about artifacts

Cara DiYanni Deborah Kelemen - Using a bad tool with good intention: How preschoolers weigh physical and intentional cues when learning about artifacts

György Gergely - Sylvia’s recipe: The role of imitation and pedagogy in the transmission of cultural knowledge

György Gergely, Gergely Csibra - The social construction of the cultural mind: Imitative learning as a mechanism of human pedagogy

Deborah Kelemen, Susan Carey - The Essence of Artifacts: Developing the Design Stance

Lecture #1

Non-mentalistic reasoning about goal-directed actions during the first year: The young infant's Teleological Stance and its relation to Theory of Mind, animated gifs on page #18: - jump, old, new

Lecture #2

Sylvia’s recipe: The role of imitation and ‘pedagogy’ in the transmission of cultural knowledge in human infants

Beyond Imitative Learning: The Case for Human "Pedagogy"
Movie files in the presentations: Movie #1, Movie #2, Movie #3, Movie #4, Movie #5

Malinda Carpenter, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, Tanya Behne, and Henrike Moll - Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition

Susan Hurley, Nick Chater - Intention Reading and Imitation Learning - Perspectives on Imitation: From Neuroscience to Social Science

Lecture #1 - The origins of cultural cognition: Understanding and sharing intentions

Lecture #2 - The origins of cultural cognition: Understanding and sharing intentions

Csaba Pléh, University of Szeged

Csaba Pléh - Narrativity in Text Construction and Self Construction

Michael W. Morris, Tanya Menon, and Daniel R. Ames - Culturally Conferred Conceptions of Agency: A Key to Social Perception of Persons, Groups, and Other Actors

André Weydert - How can we understand the construction of an organism?

Michel Ferrari - Baldwin's two developmental resolutions of the mind–body problem

Jeremy I. M. Carpendale, Charlie Lewis - Constructing an understanding of mind: The development of children’s social understanding within social interaction

Emily D. Cahan - James Mark Baldwin: The natural and the good

Csaba Pleh - Ernst Mach and Daniel Dennett: Two Evolutionary Models of Cognition

Csaba Pleh - Karl Popper’s Biological Views, Contemporary Cognitive Science

Lecture #1 - Animal action, its explanations and relation to psychology

Lecture #2 - Intentionality in modern and present day psychology. From Brentano to Dennett

Lecture #3 - Evolutionary visions of intentionality, learning and selection. From Mach through Popper to Dennett

Johannes Roessler, University of Warwick, Department of Philosophy

Naomi Eilan - Joint Attention, Communication, and Mind

Johannes Roessler - Joint Attention and the Problem of Other Minds

Christoph Hoerl and Teresa McCormack - Joint Reminiscing as Joint Attention to the Past

József Topál, ELTE, Department of Ethology

Miklosi - The ethological analysis of imitation, Biol. Rev. (1999), 74, pp. 347±374

Miklosi Topal Csanyi - Comparative social cognition: What can dogs teach us? ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 2004, 67, 995e1004

Heyes - Imitation by Association; (in press) Perspectives on Imitation: From Mirror Neurons to Memes. MIT Press

Galef - Imitation in animals: History, Definition And Interpretation of Data From The Psychological Laboratory

Lecture #1 - The dog: a case of interspecific social learning

Lecture #1 - Basic mechanisms of social learning

Recommended Readings

Kubinyi - Social mimetic behaviour and social anticipation in dogs: preliminary results, Anim Cogn (2003) 6:57-63

Kubinyi - Dogs (Canis familiaris) Learn From Their Owners via Observation in a Manipulation Task, Journal of Comparative Psychology 2003, Vol. 117, No. 2, 156–165

Pongracz - Preference for Copying Unambiguous Demonstrations in Dogs (Canis familiaris), Journal of Comparative Psychology 2003, Vol. 117, No. 3, 337–343

Galef Giraldeau - Social influences on foraging in vertebrates: causal mechanisms and adaptive functions, ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 2001, 61, 3–15

Ádám Miklósi, ELTE, Department of Ethology

Louis Lefebvre - Is Social Learning an Adaptive Specialization?

Alan C. Kamil - On The Proper Definition of Cognitive Ethology

William C. McGrew - The Intelligent Use of Tools: Twenty Propositions

Elisabetta Visalberghi - Capuchin Monkeys: A Window Into Tool Use in Apes and Humans

Adam Miklosi - Innovation, tool use, niche construction

Adam Miklosi - Innovation, tool use, niche construction

Tim German, University of California, Santa Barbara

Defeyter, M.A. & German , T.P. (2003). Acquiring an understanding of design: Evidence from children's insight problem solving. Cognition, 89, 133-155.

German, T.P. & Barrett, H.C. (2005). Functional fixedness in a technologically sparse culture. Psychological Science, 10, 1-5.

Recommended readings:

Diesendruck, G., Markson, L. & Bloom, P. (2003). Children's reliance on creator's intent in extending names for artifacts. Psychological Science, 14, 154-169.

Kemler Nelson, D.G., Holt, M.B., & Chan Egan, L. (2004) Two- and three-year-olds infer and reason about design intentions in order to categorize broken objects. Developmental Science, 7, 543-549.

German, T.P. & Johnson, S.A. (2002). Function and the origins of the design stance. Journal of Cognition and Development, 3, 279-300.

Paul Bloom, Yale University, Department of Psychology

Paul Bloom - Descartes' Baby - Chapter 2: Artifacts

Paul Bloom - Descartes' Baby - Chapter 3: Anxious Objects

Recommended readings:

Melissa Preissler, Paul Bloom - Two-year-olds appreciate the dual nature of pictures

Melissa Preissler, Paul Bloom - Two-year olds use artist intention to interpret drawings