Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id QAA01005 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 31 May 2000 16:34:32 +0100 Subject: RE: Primate Rights Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 11:31:40 -0400 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas est veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "memetics list" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20000531153150.AAA2993@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On 05/31/00 11:17, Lawrence H. de Bivort said this-
>unfamiliar with studies indicating that grammar is absent in the wild. Any
>citations at hand?
Grammar is tricky and anthropocentric perhaps- what we know may be a
side-effect of something else. Anyway, the best person I'm aware of, and
I'm not just localizing this praise, is Marc Hauser, who has published
several works.
Here is a list of his present studies-
Current research:
1996- : Collaborative project with Dr. R. Wrangham (Harvard) on
intercommunity aggression and vocal communication in chimpanzees of the
Kibale Forest, Uganda.
1995- : Collaborative projects with Drs. S. Carey (NYU) and E. Spelke
(MIT) on the origins of numerical competence and the object concept in
human infants and nonhuman primates.
1994- : Collaborative projects with Dr. M. Tramo (Harvard Medical School)
on the neurophysiological basis of auditory categorization in rhesus
monkeys.
1993-1995 : Collaborative project with Dr. F. Bercovitch (University of
Puerto Rico) on the acoustic and physiological correlates of vocal
signaling in rhesus monkeys.
1992- : Experiments on knowledge acquisition and concept formation in
captive cotton-top tamarins (Harvard University).
1991-1994 : Psychophysical experiments on the perceptual abilities of
rhesus macaques (e.g., hemispheric lateralization of species-specific
signals, categorical perception); collaborative project with Drs. W.
Stebbins and D. Moody (University of Michigan).
1990-1993 : Field experiments with rhesus macaques on deception in the
context of food and sex; location: Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico.
1988- : Long-term project on the mechanisms underlying vocal production
and perception in rhesus macaques; research is being ocnducted on Cayo
Santiago and in Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico.
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