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Child directed demonstration across cultures (DEMONSTRATION DESIGN)
Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2014,
"Since the seminal work of Grice (1957), speaking is considered an intentional activity in the sense that it serves achieving goals: one of them, specific of humans, is to teach other humans to use new tools and knowledge (Tomasello 1999; Csibra & Gergely 2009). This context of interaction involves often children and this requires a specific type of recipient design mostly studied under the rubric ...
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From action to communication: the role of intention and social cues in the perception of gestures as communicative acts (action to gesture)
Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2012,
The proposed project investigates how two domains of human cognition, language and action, are linked by studying the cognitive and neural processes underlying gestures used in everyday talk (i.e., cospeech gestures). Recent important theories on human language evolution have postulated that human communication ability evolved out of, and has its roots in, actions. However, there is one important ...
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