COG SCI 190 Lecture : Lecture Symbols and Social Cognition
13 Apr 2014
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Symbols and social cognition lecture: diversity trumps ability, how many marbles are in the jar? (2000 people answered, the best quarter of guesses were good, even better was the average guess of random groups of 40 or more, swarm intelligence wisdom of crowds , compare to population codes, neurons in monkey motor cortex are tuned for particular directions of movement, direction of arm movement is given by averaging the preferred directions, weighted by the amount the neurons fire, what is language, a means of communication allowing us to: Some other force: word order (greenberg): if a language has verb final word order, it will tend to have postpositions rather than prepositions, language is uniquely human but so are a few other things like pointing, pointing, one person directs another person"s attention to some third object, stems from a desire to share experience, language is a part of a larger system of communication that relies on social coordination.
