David Premack

Intelligence in Ape and Man

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What is language and what is the nature of the intelligence that can acquire it? This volume, originally published in 1976, describes 10 years of research devoted to these questions. The author describes his programmatic research of decomposing language into atomic constituents, designing and applying training programs for teaching these to chimpanzees, and for teaching chimps major human ontological categories, as well as for interrogative, declarative, and imperative sentence forms. One of the earliest ape language and intelligence studies, today this classic can be read and enjoyed again in its historical context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781848722644
• ISBN-10: 1848722648
• Artikelnr.: 41967631

Autorenporträt

David Premack

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1 Introduction 2 Subjects and General Procedure 3 The Physical
Basis of Language 4 Early Failures 5 Later Success: Mapping a Social
Transaction 6 Transfer 7 Early Concepts: Same-Different, No, and the
Interrogative 8 "Name of" and Metalinguistics 9 Properties and Property
Classes 10 Productivity: Use of Concepts to Generate New Instances of
Themselves 11 Class Membership 12 Toward Logical Connectives and the
Concept of Causality 13 Quantifiers and This/That 14 Synonymy 15 Words and
Memory 16 Syntax 17 Mechanisms of Intelligence: Preconditions for Language.
References. Author Index. Subject Index.