Origins of human communication

By Michael Tomasello. 2008

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Language and Linguistics, Cognitive Science & Psychology, Linguistics

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What can the brain teach us about building artificial intelligence? (2016, background): “2002)? Is it the ability to re-use symbols by name (Deacon 1998)? Is it the ability to understand others intentionally and build shared intentionality (Bloom 2000; Frank et al. 2009; Tomasello 2010)? Is it some new version of these things, or is it just more of the aspects of these capacities that a”
Imitating Interactive Intelligence (2020, background): “, 1983; Branwen, 2018) to the point that interacting with a computer or a robot would be much like interacting with another human being – through shared attention, gesture, demonstration, and dialogue (Tomasello, 2010; Winograd, 1972).”
Teaching in a play-based curriculum: Theory, practice and evidence of developmental education for young children (2013, background): “It is through the interiorization of the interpersonal use of language (communication) that the cultural mind develops (Wertsch 1985 , Tomasello 2008 ).”
An Evolutionary Anthropological Perspective on Modern Human Origins (2015, background): “Humans have a complex cognition that allows a symbolically mediated world-view, and its most complex symbolic system, language, is an essential component of the modern human adaptation (Pinker 2010, Tomasello 1999, Tomasello 2008).”
Chimpanzees coordinate in a negotiation game (2009, background): “…variables constrain chimpanzees' use of intentional communication during cooperative interactions (see Hirata et al., in press and Melis, Warneken, & Hare, in press for discussions on this topic and Tomasello, 2008 for a possible evolutionary account on chimpanzees' communication constraints).”
The Development of Play (2015, background): “This is in keeping with a general movement in the field towards social-cultural frameworks (Tomasello, 2008).”
Minimal Requirements for the Emergence of Learned Signaling (2014, background): “However, only human communication displays such open-endedness (Tomasello, 2010) in the number of signals learned, the contexts in which they are elicited, and the responses they effect.”
Language to Action: Towards Interactive Task Learning with Physical Agents (2018, background): “In human-human communication, what enables us to understand each other depends on common ground and shared in-tentionality [Clark, 1996; Tomasello, 2008].”
Cross-modal iconicity: A cognitive semiotic approach to sound symbolism (2010, background): “…of sign nevertheless retains a crucial place, and the question of how the capacity to use signs emerged in evolution, and develops in ontogeny is of vital importance (Donald 1991, 2001; Mandler 1996; Deacon 1997; Tomasello 1999, 2008; DeLoache 2004; Sonesson 2007, 2009a; Zlatev 2007, 2008, 2009).”
The grammar of engagement I: framework and initial exemplification (2017, background): “[2] The coordination of attention and belief reasoning (cf. ‘shared intentionality’; Tomasello, 2008, 2014) are further central to the debate concerning how theory of mind develops in the child and whether this development may be equated with one or several cognitive abilities (see Apperly &…”
The Evolution of Tag-Based Cooperation in Humans (2012, background): “The evolutionary consequences of language for uniquely human sociality—including cooperation—are the focus of a large and growing literature (e.g., Brinck and Gardenfors 2003; Dunbar 1996; Tomasello 1999, 2008).”
The phenomenology and development of social perspectives (2013, background): “The infant begins to understand that verbal utterances are used to share a focus of attention or to direct others to do certain things (Tomasello 2008, pp. 109ff.).”
The power of asking: How communication affects selfishness, empathy, and altruism (2011, methodology): “Level-2 mindreading is required for anything beyond very basic communication, as such, this sort of communication is distinctly human (Tomasello, 2008).”