PS: How do animals think? Animal cognition in human context
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
Plenary
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German and English languageWhat makes the difference between human beings and other animals? What kinds of thoughts can animals think? We will explore the ability of animals to reason, remember, communicate, and imitate each other. A diverse set of species shares these abilities with us. But, these myriad accomplishments notwithstanding, animal minds remain quite different from the human variety. Anthropomorphism makes for great children’s stories, but it has had a pernicious influence on the study of animal minds. We live in a world of wonderfully diverse species, each adapted cognitively for its own unique niche not a world where other species think like we do.
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Tetsuro MATSUZAWA
Professor, Section of Language and Intelligence, Department of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University
| Has been studying chimpanzee intelligence both in the laboratory and in the wild and tries to synthesize the field work and the laboratory work to understand the nature of chimpanzees | |
| 1978 | "Ai Project" started and has been focusing on the language-like skills and the concept of numbers established in a female chimpanzee |
| since 1986 | studying the behavior of wild chimpanzees in their natural habitat in Bossou and Nimba, Guinea, West Africa |
Dr. Clive D. L. WYNNE
Associate Professor, University of Florida, Department of Psychology
| 1987-1988 | Research Fellow, Duke University, Durham, U.S.A. |
| 1988-1990 | Research Fellow, Universität Konstanz, West Germany |
| 1990-1993 | Research Associate, Duke University, Durham, U.S.A. |
| 1993-2001 | Lecturer /Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Western Australia |
| since 2002 | Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Florida |
Dr. Peter MARKL
Universität Wien
| bis 2001 | Professor für Analytische Chemie am Institut für Analytische Chemie der Universität Wien |
| freiberufliche Tätigkeit als Wissenschaftsjournalist | |
| Leiter der Arbeitsgruppe für chemische Ausbildung der Gesellschaft Österreichischer Chemiker |
