Psy 5120, 2012p. 1

PSY 5120 ’12, final changes (several deletions and 1 substitution) to reading list, March 4.

9. Mar. 13 NUMBER

What numerical abilities do other species share with humans and which are uniquely human? How are they related to the ability to represent other relative magnitudes in general?

Fundamentals, pp. 41-48 (concepts and categories); pp. 61-69 (number and economic decisions).

Feigenson, L., Dehaene, S., & Spelke, E. (2004). Core systems of number. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 307-314.

Hauser, M. D., Carey, S., & Hauser, L. (2000). Spontaneous number representation in semi free ranging rhesus monkeys. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 267, 829-833.

Pica, P., Lemer, C., Izard, V., & Dehaene, S. (2004). Exact and approximate arithmetic in an Amazonian indigene group. Science, 306, 499-503.

Terrace, H. S (2005). The simultaneous chain: A new approach to serial learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 202-210.

Grosenick, L., Clement, T. S., & Fernald, R. D. (2007). Fish can infer social rank by observation alone. Nature, 445, 429-432.

10. Mar. 20. SOCIAL COGNITION: THEORY OF MIND

Fundamentals, pp. 81-92.

Sheehan, M. J., & Tibbetts, E. A. (2011). Specialized face learning is associated with individual recognition in paper wasps. Science, 334, 1272-1275.

Call, J., and M. Tomasello. (2008). “Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? 30 years later.” Trends in Cognitive Science 12: 187–192.

Penn, D. C., & Povinelli, D. J. (2007). On the lack of evidence that non-human animals possess anything remotely resembling a 'theory of mind'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 362, 731-744.

Bugnyar, T., & Heinrich, B. (2005). Ravens, Corvus corax, differentiate between knowledgeable

and ignorant competitors. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 272, 1641-1646.

Cheney, D. L. (2011). Extent and limits of cooperation in animals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 10902-10909.

Cheney, D. L., Moscovice, L. R., Heesen, M., Mundry, R., & Seyfarth, R. M. (2010). Contingent

cooperation between wild female baboons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 9562-9566.

11. Mar. 27.SOCIAL LEARNING AND CULTURE

Fundamentals, pp. 93-101

Catmur, C., Walsh, V., & Heyes, C. (2009). Associative sequence learning: the role of experience in the development of imitation and the mirror system. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364, 2369-2380.

Thornton, A., & McAuliffe, K. (2006). Teaching in wild meerkats. Science, 313, 227-229.

Whiten, A. et al. (1999). Cultures in chimpanzees. Nature, 399, 682-685.

* Galef, B. G. (2009). Culture in animals? In The Question of Animal Culture, ed. K. N. Laland and B. G. Galef Jr., 222-246. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Dean, L. G., Kendal, R. L., Schapiro, S. J., Thierry, B., & Laland, K. N. (2012). Identification of the social and cognitive processes underlying human cumulative culture. Science, 335, 1114- 1118. Also the “Perspective” by Kurzban & Barrrett on p. 1056-1057 of the same (March 1) issue.

12. April 3. COMMUNICATION

Fundamentals, pp. 101-111.

Seyfarth, R. M., & Cheney, D. L. (2010). Production, usage, and comprehension in animal vocalizations. Brain & Language,115, 92-100.

Zuberbuhler, K., Cheney, D. L., & Seyfarth, R. M. (1999). Conceptual semantics in a nonhuman primate. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 113, 33-42.

Hauser, M. D., Chomsky, N., & Fitch, W. T. (2002). The faculty of language: What is it, who has

it, and how did it evolve? Science, 298, 1569-1579.

van Heijningen, C. A. A., deVisser, J., Zuidema, W., & ten Cate, C. (2009). Simple rules can explain discrimination of putative syntactic structures by a songbird species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106, 20538-20543.

PAPERS DUE ON TUESDAY APRIL 10

(Dates in April were wrong on the original syllabus; pdf of the full corrected and updated version as of March 1 is now on the website)