“Natural Pedagogy”: Human infants are prepared to learn from others

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title“Natural Pedagogy”: Human infants are prepared to learn from others
start_date2007/11/23
schedule11h-13h
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location_infocouloir CD, rdc, salle Weil
summaryThe hypothesis of Natural Pedagogy proposes that ostensive- referential-inferential communication in humans is an adaptation that has made the transmission of generalizable semantic information to others possible. This hypothesis predicts that young human infants must be prepared to be at the receptive side of this kind of communication and should display specific perceptual-cognitive biases in their reaction to communicative stimuli. I present the results of some recent studies that confirmed these predictions.
responsiblesStojanovic