PSYCH 241H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Noam Chomsky, Waggle Dance, Semiotics
26 Sep 2017
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Nim acquired 125 asl signs and produced thousands of multiple sign combinations, with the vast majority being two-sign combinations (e. g. more apple and give ball ) A computational model predicted theoretical vs. empirical values of syntactic diversity in. It"s an insult to chimpanzee intelligence to consider this their means of communication. It"s rather as if humans were taught to mimic some aspects of the waggle dance of bees and researchers were to say, wow, we"ve taught humans to communicate. " . If apes were to learn language in any true sense of the word, why would they have this dormant ability never expressed innately, waiting for humans to come along and teach them how to use it? them. It"s as if humans can really fly, but won"t know it until some trainer comes along to teach. Human brain is greatly expanded in size. Human brain is most densely packed with 16. 3b cortical neurons.
