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Intervention sans nom (manifestation: Philosophie Expérimentale (séminaire du groupe -, Institut Jean-Nicod, UMR 8129 CNRS-EHESS-ENS))| old_uid | 13126 |
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| start_date | 2013/12/04 |
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| schedule | 18h30 |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Cathal O'Madagain will be presenting some new work on "indexical pointing" (i.e. referring to an object by pointing to it). This presentation should be lots of fun, and very accessible to those of you who aren't familiar with the topic.
Cathal wants to know what "visual rules" determine the direction you have to point your finger in in order to refer to an object. Do you have to point right at it, or just close to it? If the latter, how close? His really interesting idea is that people implicitly treat the tip of the finger like an eyeball, and this determines the range of things that a finger point can pick out. I'd also like to add that in looking at his stimuli and chatting with people informally about this, Cathal's initial project seems like one that could generate lots of fascinating follow-up studies. So new ideas and input would be welcome! |
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| responsibles | Strickland |
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