Título: Evolution of Communication Systems - A Comparative Approach
Autor: D. Kimbrough Oller, Ulrike Griebel, Gerd B. Müller, Katrin Schäfer, Thomas Pradeu
Sinopse: Laying foundations for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of evolution in communication systems with tools from evolutionary biology, linguistics, animal behavior, developmental psychology, philosophy, cognitive sciences, robotics, and neural network modeling. The search for origins of communication in a wide variety of species including humans is rapidly becoming a thoroughly interdisciplinary enterprise. In this volume, scientists engaged in the fields of evolutionary biology, linguistics, animal behavior, developmental psychology, philosophy, the cognitive sciences, robotics, and neural network modeling come together to explore a comparative approach to the evolution of communication systems. The comparisons range from parrot talk to squid skin displays, from human language to Aibo the robot dog's language learning, and from monkey babbling to the newborn human infant cry. The authors explore the mysterious circumstances surrounding the emergence of human language, which they propose to be intricately connected with drastic changes in human lifestyle. While it is not yet clear what the physical environmental circumstances were that fostered social changes in the hominid line, the volume offers converging evidence and theory from several lines of research suggesting that language depended upon the restructuring of ancient human social groups. The volume also offers new theoretical treatments of both primitive communication systems and human language, providing new perspectives on how to recognize both their similarities and their differences. Explorations of new technologies in robotics, neural network modeling and pattern recognition offer many opportunities to simulate and evaluate theoretical proposals. The North American and European scientists who have contributed to this volume represent a vanguard of thinking about how humanity came to have the capacity for language and how nonhumans provide a background of remarkable capabilities that help clarify the foundations of speech.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Evolution of Communication Systems – A Comparative Approach”, de D. Kimbrough Oller, Ulrike Griebel, Gerd B. Müller, Katrin Schäfer, Thomas Pradeu, publicado pela editora MIT Press, em 2004 e com 352 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: MIT Press
Páginas: 352
Ano: 2004
Edição: Illustrated
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9780262151115
ISBN13: 9780262151115
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora MIT Press oferecem leituras que transitam entre o rigor acadêmico e a clareza acessível, frequentemente explorando temas ligados à ciência, tecnologia, filosofia e ciências humanas. A experiência de leitura costuma envolver análises detalhadas, estudos de caso e abordagens interdisciplinares que conectam teoria e prática. O catálogo sugere uma preferência por obras que investigam fundamentos conceituais, como inteligência artificial, linguística, neurociência e filosofia, mas também inclui narrativas que misturam ficção e reflexão intelectual, como romances que dialogam com a história das ideias. O tom varia entre o didático e o ensaístico, com textos que podem ser tanto densos e técnicos quanto envolventes e ilustrados, sempre com foco em aprofundar o entendimento dos temas tratados.
