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Tools and the Mind
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Prerequisites: The course has no prerequisite.
Content: Toolmaking is said to distinguish humans from other animals. In this seminar we will look at tools from various perspectives: evolutionary/phylogenetic, comparative, ontogenetic, and neuro-cognitive.
The evolution of the hand and brain in concert with (precursors of) language facilitated the origins of tool use in the Paleolithic (Oldowan Industrial complex (2.6 – 1.7 mya) and Acheulean Industrial Complex (after 1.7 mya)). Manufacturing tools and using them is driven by and has driven mental representations that are hierarchical and often recursive.
Many animals use tools, e.g., chimpanzees use twigs to fish for ants or rooks can bend wire into a hook shape to retrieve objects. We will look at tool innovation, manufacture, and use in apes, mammals, and big-brained birds.
Tool-related behaviors engage particular areas in the brain in humans, among them the left-inferior parietal cortex, presumably for storing manipulation knowledge and/or reasoning about physical object properties. An integrative neuropsychological framework formalizes tool use activities understood as multiple problem situations in which four kinds of constraints hold: mechanics, space, time, and effort (Osiurak).
Tools are interface devices and function as extensions of the (motor abilities of the) body. They are integrated into the body schema such that the user and their tool not only form a functional but also a bodily unit.
Children start using tools early on, however, it takes surprisingly long until they can innovate a tool, e.g., bend a pipe-cleaner into a hook shape in order to retrieve a bucket from a tall jar. Only 6-8-year-old children can do this reliably. Younger children benefit from seeing the ready-made tool (the hook) or being demonstrated the bending of the pipe-cleaner. Thus, social mechanisms – social learning and imitation – play an important role in the development of tool-related behaviors.
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Ort: 35/E22
Zeiten: Di. 13:00 - 16:00 (wöchentlich)
Erster Termin: Dienstag, 17.10.2023 13:00 - 16:00, Ort: 35/E22
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar (Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen)
Studienbereiche
- Cognitive Science > Bachelor-Programm
- Cognitive Science > Master-Programm
Past and Forthcoming Events
- Bernoulli-ims 11th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Bochum, August 12-16, 2024
- Workshop on Stein's Method and Networks, Oxford, June 20-21, 2024
- Spatial Stochastics in High Dimensions, Osnabrück, May 2-3, 2024
- SPP2265-Meeting on Stochastic Geometry and Point Processes, Münster University, 15.11.2023
- DMV meeting 2023, TU Ilmenau, 25.-28.09.2023
- Workshop Random Graphs 2023, TU Dortmund, 04.-08.09.2023
- 43rd conference on Stochastic Processses and their Applications, in Lisbon, 24.-28.7.2023
- UK Easter Probability Meeting, Stochastic modelling of complex systems, The Univesity of Manchester, 27.-31.3.2023
- BOS Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Osnabrück, 22.-24.2.2023
- Stochastic Geometry Workshop, Osnabrück, 23-25.11.2022
- Workshop Recent Trends in Spatial Stochastic Processes, Eurandom Eindhoven, 03.-07.10.2022
- SPP Workshop Limit theorems for spatial random structures, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 07.09.-09-09.2022
- Stein’s Method: The Golden Anniversary, IMS Program Singapore, 13.06.–08.07.2022
- SPP Random Geometric Systems First Annual Conference, 11.04-14.04 2022
- Stochastiktage Mannheim, 27.09.-01.10.2021
- First Meeting of the Israel Mathematical Union and the German Mathematical Society, 8-10 March 2021, cancelled due to Coronavirus
- UK Easter Probability Meeting, 30 March to 3 April 2020, cancelled due to Coronavirus
- Dresdener Stochastik-Tage 24. to 27.03.2020, cancelled due to Coronavirus
- Final Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, September 30 to October 2nd, 2019
- SIAM in Bern, 07.2019
- Symposium in memory of Charles Stein [1920-2016]
- Women in probability, 31.05. to 01.06.2019
- Fourth Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, January 10 and 11, 2019
- Third Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, April 5 and 6, 2018
- Workshop on Algebraic Methods in Statistics, 30.11. to 02.12. 2017
- Second Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, June 26 and 27, 2017
- Opening Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, December 6 to 8, 2016
- Conference on Combinatorial Structures in Geometry
- Organisation of the workshop Algebraic and Stochastic Aspects of Graph Theory
- Talk at Junior Female Researchers in Probability in Berlin, October 22 and 23, 2015
- Talk at Satellite workshop Recent Trends in Stochastic Analysis and Related Topics at Univ. Hamburg, September 20 and 21, 2015
- Local Organisation of the 18th Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Stereology and Image Analysis"18th Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Stereology and Image Analysis"
- Probabilistic and Geometric Facets of High Dimensions Organisation of the Mini-Workshop at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, October 9 and 10, 2014.
- Organisation of the DMV-Studierendenkonferenz 2014. Weitere Informationen
- Project "Mathematik be-greifen" in the Alfried Krupp-Schülerlabor at RUB, 2006-2013.
- Organisation of the IRTG Berlin-Zürich summer school "stochastic models of complex processes" and the Spring meeting Beijing/Bielefeld - Berlin/Zurich 2011
- Organisation of the DMV-Studierendenkonferenz 2009. Weitere Informationen
Publications
- Asymptotics of a time-bounded cylinder model, with N. Aschenbruck and S. Bussmann, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269964822000420
- The method of cumulants for the normal approximation, with S. Jansen and K. Schubert, Probability Surveys 2022, Vol. 19, 185-270, https://doi.org/10.1214/22-PS7
- Sedentary Random Waypoint, with C. Betken, arXiv:2009.02941
- The Impact of Bit Errors on Intra-Session Network Coding with Heterogeneous Packet Lengths, with B. Schütz, N. Aschenbruck, S. Bussmann and M. Juhnke-Kubitzke, Proc. of the 45th IEEE LCN Symposium on Emerging Topics in Networking LCN, virtually hosted in Sydney, Australia, Nov. 16–19, 2020.
- Stationarity for the Small World in Motion Mobility Model, with Nils Aschenbruck, Christian Heiden und Matthias Schwamborn, MSWIM '19: Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, Nov 25-29, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1145/3345768.3355935
- Crossing Numbers and Stress of Random Graphs, with Markus Chimani and Matthias Reitzner, In Proceedings 26th International Symposium, GD 2018, Barcelona, Spain, 255--268, 2018 available here and for an extended journal version here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07558
- Fluctuations in a general preferential attachment model via Stein's method, with Carina Betken and Marcel Ortgiese, Random Structures & algorithms, vol.55, no.4, 2019 available here
- Connection times in large ad-hoc mobile networks, Bernoulli, vol.22, no.4, 2143--2176, 2016 available here
with Gabriel Faraud, Wolfgang König - The random disc thrower problem, Proceedings of the 90th European Study Group Mathematics with Industry, 59-78, 2013 available here with T. van der Aalst, D. Denteneer, M. Hong Duong, R. J. Kang, M. Keane, J. Kool, I. Kryven, T. Meyfroyt, T. Müller, G. Regts, J. Tomczyk
- Edge fluctuations of eigenvalues of Wigner matrices, High Dimensional Probability VI: the Banff volume, Progress in Probability, vol.66, 261-275, Springer, Basel, 2013 available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher - Moderate deviations for the determinant of Wigner matrices, Dedicated to Friedrich Götze on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, Limit Theorems in Probability, Statistics and Number Theory, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol.42, 253-275, 2013, available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher - Moderate deviations for the eigenvalue counting function of Wigner matrices, ALEA, Lat. Am. J. Probab. Math. Stat. 10 (1), 27-44, 2013, available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher - Moderate deviations via cumulants, Journal of Theor. Probability, 2012, available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher - Moments of recurrence times for Markov chains, Electronic Comm. Probab., 16(28), 296-303, 2011, available here
with Frank Aurzada, Marcel Ortgiese, Michael Scheutzow - Moderate deviations in a random graph and for the spectrum of Bernoulli random matrices, Electronic Journal of Probability, Vol. 14, Paper no. 92, 2636-2656, 2009, available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher - Perpendicular transport of charged particles in slab turbulence: recovery of diffusion for realistic wave-spectra?, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 35, 025202, 2008
with Andreas Shalchi - Velocity correlation functions of charged test particles, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 34, 859, 2007
with Andreas Shalchi
