[Todos] Charla Julia Fischer - Lunes 01/10 11.30AM

[Juan Kamienkowski]

Queriamos invitarlos a un seminario abierto del Laboratorio de Neurociencia
Integrativa. La invitada es Julia Fischer. actualmente es Profesora del
German Primate Center (Goettingen, Germany) y directora del Cognitive
Ethology Lab, el cual opera un campo de investigación de babuinos en
Senegal. Julia Fischer es experta en cognición y comunicación animal, con
un enfoque ecologico y evolutivo. Su interés principal es el estudio de la
evolución del lenguaje, en particular su investigación se enfoca sobre el
estudio de las vocalizaciones en primates y la decodificación de la
información que llevan y el desarrollo de las capacidades cognitivas y
comunicativas.

LUNES 01 / 10 a las 11:30hs en el AULA FEDERMAN, Primer Piso, Pabellón 1,
Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires.

"Nonhuman primate communication and the roots of human language"
Julia Fischer
(Cognitive Ethology Lab, German Primate Center, Goettingen, Germany;
http://www.cog-ethol.de/index.php )

I will explore the commonalities and differences in the vocal communication
of nonhuman primates and humans. Research in the last decades has yielded
strong evidence in favor of the assumption that the acoustic structure of
nonhuman primate vocalizations is largely innate, with only limited
plasticity. On the other hand, nonhuman primates exhibit considerable
flexibility in terms of the comprehension of calls and the integration of
information from different sources. I will present a number of studies that
addressed the question of adaptation to the habitat, the importance of
phylogenetic relationships, and physiological effects on call production.
Further, I will present a recent model of the cognitive mechanisms
supporting flexible responses and decision making. In addition, I will
briefly discuss the issue of lateralized processing of sounds, a hallmark
in human speech perception. Taken together, the findings suggest that
evolutionary constraints played an important role in the evolution of
primate communication, while the ability to learn and integrate information
made up for some of the restrictions in vocal production. Whether or not
further studies of nonhuman primate communication will indeed solve the
puzzle of the origin of speech remains an open issue.

-- 
Juan E Kamienkowski
Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa
Departamento de Fisica, FCEN-UBA
Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellon I
(1428) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Phone: (54-11) 4576 3300 (282)
Fax: (54-11) 4576 3357
http://www.neurociencia.df.uba.ar/
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