CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: African Grey Parrot, Karl Von Frisch, Waggle Dance

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Barak Caine

Document Summary

Expressed and solidifies social and cultural bonding. Temporal lobe has grown by almost 10% in last 50,000 years due to development of language. Psycholinguistics- how sounds and symbols are translated to meaning. 50,000 years ago: child born with mutation that allowed her/him to apply meaning to sound. Abstract thinking, evaluating action outcome, and using linguistics to express that. Sound categories that matter in a language. Other language have their own sets of phonemes. Karl von frisch- the waggle dance of bees. Waggle conveys if there is anything of interest for sustenance purposes within flying range, what kind of sustenance, where it is, how long it takes to get there. Know only about 100 words at most. Trainer could never replicate linguistic abilities of alex with other parrots. Alex could count to 6 & declare number of objects. Put 7 stuffed animals on a table and alex says 6 toys and destroyed.