Objetivo What makes us smart? Human body cells function in the same way as those of animals, and even the core cognitive competencies for vision, quantity perception, object mechanics, and other domains are virtually the same in humans as in some animals. Nevertheless humans have addressed the basic problems of life (food, shelter, mating, locomotion, ...) in completely different ways from even their closest animal kin, and have risen to dominate the planet. Recently complex syntactic processing has been identified as one core area where humans differ from primates.The central question of the CHLaSC project is: How much of human uniqueness can be traced back to this one basic difference? Addressing this question is a team from five different fields (biology, semantics, language acquisition, cognitive development, and anthropology). We focus on structural complexity in language and in other cognitive systems, and the question whether extra-linguistic structural complexity is derived from language.The three core objectives we pursue are:1) Describe precisely the difference in syntactic processing ability from a comparative, developmental, and socio-cultural perspective.2) Develop formal models of the semantic mechanisms relating language to other cognitive domains.3) Investigate how variation in the use of structural complexity in language correlates with the availability of structural complexity in social cognition.This project complements the already funded Neurocom project in the behavioural and socio-cultural domain. The CHLaSC project integrates linguistic semantics with the cognitive sciences, which is expected to broadly impact both fields and open up many new research opportunities. A broader social impact arises from the work on cognitive disorders, where opportunities for applications in diagnosis, therapy, and genetic research arise. Ámbito científico humanitieslanguages and literaturegeneral language studiesnatural sciencesbiological scienceszoologymammalogyprimatologynatural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyplanetary sciencesplanetssocial sciencespsychologycognitive psychologysocial sciencespsychologypsycholinguistics Palabras clave Language Acquisition Primatology Social Cognition Syntax Programa(s) FP6-POLICIES - Policy support: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Tema(s) NEST-2003-1 - Adventure activities Convocatoria de propuestas FP6-2004-NEST-PATH Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoria Régimen de financiación STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinador GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTLICHE ZENTREN BERLIN E.V. Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Jaegerstr. 10/11 BERLIN Alemania Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos Participantes (4) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN Países Bajos Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Oude Boteringestraat GRONINGEN Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS Reino Unido Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección College Gate, North Street ST ANDREWS Ver en el mapa Enlaces Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER Reino Unido Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Oxford Road MANCHESTER Ver en el mapa Enlaces Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos UNIVERSITEIT POTSDAM Alemania Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Am Neuen Palais 10 POTSDAM Ver en el mapa Enlaces Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos
