Event
What do human infants expect when adults communicate to them?
Friday, November 12, 2010 13:30to15:00
Stewart Biology Building
1205 avenue du Docteur-Penfield, Montreal, QC, H3A 1B1, CA
Invited lecture by Gergely Csibra, Ph.D.
Dr Csibra's research focuses on cognitive development in infancy, fromÌýattention through the interpretation of communicative signals as well asÌýthe neural correlates of these behaviors. ÌýHe has been at Birkbeck inÌýLondon () and hasÌýrecently moved to Central European University in BudapestÌý().
His most recent workÌýincludes titles such as:
- Natural pedagogy as evolutionary adaptation
- Near-infrared spectroscopy: A report from the McDonnell
InfantÌýMethodology Consortium
- Seventeen-month-olds appeal to false beliefs to interpret
others'Ìýreferential communication
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All are welcome