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His research interests include the analysis of human behavior from videos and other sensors, the understanding and modeling of human (communicative) behavior, and the applications of both in real-life settings.
But Emergentists, Externalists, and Essentialists could all, in principle, agree that there are both unique characteristics of human communicative capacities and characteristics of such capacities that are shared with non-humans.
So far, only a small number of studies have tested call comprehension in great apes [4], [5] and thus we know very little about the abilities of great apes to extract and integrate information from calls; a vital part of human communicative abilities.
Thus, these dogs show some understanding of the referential/symbolic function of human communicative signs.
The patterns of activation timing, co-activation, and oscillatory coupling between distinct brain modules provided us with unprecedented detail about processes of human communicative interaction and further allowed us to disentangle a more partner-orientated from a more egocentric conception of interactive communication.
It has been suggested that the study of the domestic dog might help to explain the evolution of human communicative skills, because the dog has been selected for living in a human environment and engaging in communicative interactions with humans for more than 10,000 years [ 1, 2].
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These findings qualify the contributions of the right pSTS to human communicative abilities, showing that this region might be necessary for incorporating previous knowledge, accumulated during interactions with a communicative partner, to constrain the inferential process that leads to action understanding.
Paired samples t-tests revealed that the response to speech in this region was significantly greater than the response to human communicative non-speech vocalizations (t(23) = 3.23, p<.01) and sounds of walking (t(23) = 2.08, p<.05).
The functional aspect of the discrete identity cue in combination with a graded behavioral cue seems analogous to human communicative contexts, when sender and receiver cannot see each other.
Thus, our results partially support the selection for communication hypothesis, where a strengthened learning ability should help the skill of reading human communicative behaviors.
When dogs were developed from wolves, selection against fear and aggression "may have been sufficient to produce the unusual ability of dogs to use human communicative gestures," Dr. Hare wrote last year in the journal Current Biology.
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