From Tools and Gestures to the Language-Ready Brain
Event Information
Description
9:00 Erin Hecht (Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Georgia State University)
From Action Perception to Tool Making: Adaptations to Fronto-Parietal Circuits in Human Brain Evolution
9:45 Atsushi Iriki (Riken Brain Research Institute, Wakō, Japan)
How human intelligence may have evolved in the primate brain
10:30 Coffee Break
10:50 Virginia Volterra (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Rome)
Developmental evidence on continuity from action to gesture, to sign and word
11:40 Richard Byrne (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
Bridging the Gap: Gestural Communication of the Great Apes
12:20 Panel Discussion
Funding provided by the ABLE Project (Action, Brain, Language and Evolution); Emory Conference Center Subvention Fund; Center for Mind, Brain and Culture; and Institute of Quantitative Theory and Methods
