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	Michael Tomasello - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Tomasello, born on January 18, 1950 in Bartow (Florida/USA), the co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutional Anthropology in Leipzig, is a cognitive psychologist.
		Tomasello's recent work has focused on the development of social cognition in children, such as the ability to imitate and act jointly with others.
		Tomasello, M (2003) Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Tomasello (202 words)

	The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition by Michael Tomasello
		Michael Tomasello is one of the very few people to have done systematic research on the cognitive capacities of both nonhuman primates and human children.
		Tomasello argues that the roots of the human capacity for symbol-based culture, and the kind of psychological development that takes place within it, are based in a cluster of uniquely human cognitive capacities that emerge early in human ontogeny.
		Michael Tomasello is Codirector of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
	www.2think.org /humancognition.shtml (1416 words)

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		Tomasello controversially argues that nonhuman primates are social learners, that is they learn by observing one another, but they are not cultural learners, for they do not learn by apprehending and transmitting intentional knowledge.
		Tomasello begins with the assumption that the development of intentional thinking must have been supported by a biological adaptation which is believed to have helped humans predict and control their environments more effectively.
		Tomasello's understanding of the psychological characteristics of a goal are central to his ontogenetic account as evidenced by the number of times he revisits the topic at different points throughout the development of his thesis (p.
	www.cognitivesciencesociety.org /newsletter/March02/tomarev.html (3045 words)

	Michael Tomasello
		Tomasello, M. Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition.
		Tomasello, M., Call, J., and Hare, B. Chimpanzees understand psychological states: The question is which ones and to what extent.
		Tomasello, M., Carpenter, M., Call, J., Behne, T., and Moll, H. Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition.
	email.eva.mpg.de /~tomas (262 words)

	Publications -Michael Tomasello
		Theakston, A., Lieven, E., and Tomasello, M. The role of input in the acquisition of third-person singlular verbs in English.
		Tomasello, M. and Camaioni, L. A comparison of the gestural communication of apes and human infants.
		Tomasello, M. and Call, J. The role of humans in the cognitive development of apes revisited.
	email.eva.mpg.de /~tomas/public.html (3740 words)

	Boesch & Tomasello: Chimpanzee and Human Cultures
		Active teaching was observed in only two instances, one in which a mother slowed down and modified her nut cracking and one in which a mother modified her son's positioning of the nut--in both cases as adjustments to the difficulties their offspring were having with the procedure.
		Tomasello, Kruger, and Ratner (1993) have hypothesized that chimpanzee cultural traditions and artifacts do not show the ratchet effect because chimpanzees do not often imitate the instrumental actions of conspecifics or engage in intentional teaching.
		Tomasello (1996:321) states that in emulation learning the learner observes and understands a change of state in the world produced by the manipulations of another, giving as examples the discoveries by observation that food may be located under logs, nuts can be cracked, and a stick's hitting a fruit will make it fall.
	cogweb.ucla.edu /Abstracts/Boesch_Tomasello_98.html (17048 words)

	Book review of Michael Tomasello (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		German anthropologist Michael Tomasello believes that humans are genetically equipped with the "ability to identify with conspecifics." This attitude is particularly visible in children, who spend most of their time imitating others.
		Tomasello thinks that this is the secret of rapid learning and of transmission of learned knowledge from one generation to the next one.
		Tomasello believes that the secret to such speedy evolution lies in the intentionality and conspecifics of human beings.
	www.thymos.com /mind/tomasell.html (268 words)

	Hauser reviews Tomasello's The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition
		Tomasello is a leading researcher in fields of primate cognition and language acquisition by children.
		Tomasello begins by explaining that our phylogeny has handed us a set of basic cognitive capacities, abilities that allow us to exploit (during ontogeny) the knowledge that our species' history has accumulated.
		Tomasello's analysis of primate cognition leads to the striking conclusion that our closest living relatives lack the key mental tool that enables humans to create cultures: putting oneself in someone else's "cognitive shoes" and using this capacity to imitate.
	cogweb.ucla.edu /Abstracts/Hauser_on_Tomasello_00.html (1725 words)

	Gene Expression: A tale of one ratchet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Tomasello dismisses assertions of chimpanzee culture, at least in the way humans have culture which is rooted in instruction, imitation and accumulation of novel behaviors.
		Tomasello suggests that even young infants tend to engage their parents in a way that chimpanzees simply do not, and offers that the way infants learn behaviors implies an understanding of intent and overall structure of interpersonal relations that chimpanzees have a difficult time conceiving of.
		In controlled experiments Tomasello points out that chimps often imitate in a scatter shot fashion that suggests that they are not fixed as much on the behavior of the chimp who serves as the model as opposed to the object of interest that the model chimp brings attention to via their behavior.
	www.gnxp.com /blog/2005/08/tale-of-one-ratchet.php (2912 words)

	A Blog Around The Clock : Books: "The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition" by Michael Tomasello, part I
		The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition by Michael Tomasello was the first book (and still the only one so far) we were reading in the newly minted CogBlogGroup, a group of bloggers reading stuff about cognitive science.
		Tomasello does not appear to be aware of the three-step model: 1) mutations in genes result, via interactions with the environment, in 2) changes in developmental trajectories leading to new phenotypes that are 3) visible to natural selection.
		After briefly sumarizing problems that Tomasello is trying to solve and the solutions to those problems that Tomasello is propsing, I have listed a number of potential criticisms of Tomasello's hypothesis.
	scienceblogs.com /clock/2006/08/books_the_cultural_origins_of.php (3597 words)

	Humans, apes both understand intent, expert says
		Michael Tomasello, codirector of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and of the Wolfgang Kohler Primate Research Center in Leipzig, Germany.
		Tomasello, a psychologist, is internationally acclaimed for his work into the processes of social cognition or thinking skills that include perception, memory, awareness, reasoning, judgment, intellect and imagination and social learning and communication, from developmental, comparative and cultural perspectives.
		Tomasello showed clips of a chimp following a researcher’s gaze, but when the researcher dropped his gaze, the chimp looked in that direction again to see if there was really something there.
	www.udel.edu /PR/NewsReleases/2005/nov/11-12-04/chimps.html (640 words)

	Harvard University Press: Constructing a Language
		In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition.
		Tomasello argues that the essence of language is its symbolic dimension, which rests on the uniquely human ability to comprehend intention.
		Michael Tomasello is Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/TOMCOL.html (235 words)

	Amazon.com: The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition: Books: Michael Tomasello (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Developmental psychologist Tomasello thinks that all of the many unique characteristics of humans are elaborations of one trait that arises in human infants at about nine months of age: the ability to understand other people as intentional agents.
		Tomasello's inability to write engaging and manageable prose is his first problem (his over use of the word "conspecific" was such that I wanted to slit my own wrists everytime I read it).
		Tomasello's book does an excellent job of debunking older ideas that the human mind MUST be hardwired for language and other aspects of culture (e.g., Stephen Mithen's ideas of cognitive modules in the phylogenesis of religion).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674005821?v=glance (1838 words)

	John Benjamins: Contributions by Michael Tomasello
		Michael Tomasello is editor/board member of the following series.
		Michael Tomasello has contributed to the following volumes.
		Liebal, Katja, Simone Pika and Michael Tomasello 2006.
	www.benjamins.com /cgi-bin/t_authorview.cgi?author=14328 (283 words)

	LINGÜÍSTICA FUNCIONAL: BIBLIOGRAFÍA XERAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Darnell, Michael, Edith Moravcsik, Frederick Newmeyer, Michael Noonan and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.) (1999), Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics, Vol.
		Tomasello, Michael (1998), "Introduction: A Cognitive-Functional Perspective on Language Structure", Michael Tomasello (ed.), The New Psychology of Language, Mahwah (New Jersey), Lawrence Erlbaum, vii-xiii.
		Tomasello, Michael (ed.) (2003), The New Psychology of Language,Cognitive and Functional Approaches.
	webs.uvigo.es /weba575/lcaXX/bib_funcional.htm (1510 words)

	A Blog Around The Clock : Books: "The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition" by Michael Tomasello, part II
		Every cognitive capability on the first list, assumed by Tomasello to be a privilege of only mammals, has been found and studied in a number of other animals, including non-mammalian vertebrates and, in some cases, even in invertebrates.
		Studies of animal cognition in a variety of species of birds, e.g., Clark's Nutcrackers, Mexican Jays, Pinyon Jays, Scrub Jays, pigeons, quail, chickens, hummingbirds, parrots, crows and ravens have described examples of either fully-developed or incipient instances of all the items on the list.
		The former incorporates the understanding of the intentions of the individual you are learning from, and the latter only contains the obvious utility of the result of the action for the learner who is observing.
	scienceblogs.com /clock/2006/08/books_the_cultural_origins_of_1.php (2070 words)

	Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Michael Tomasello is a psycholinguist and Senior Scientist at the Max Planck Institute, Leipzig.
		He has long investigated the contextualized language that infants and young children are exposed to and its connection to the language young children initially produce.
		Beginning with his meticulous investigation of the development of his daughter's language and the early language environment surrounding her, Dr. Tomasello has pursued the hypothesis that children's early use of language conservatively reflects the specific language they have heard.
	www.georgetown.edu /events/gurt/2003/Tomasello.html (257 words)

	Resources from Connections Center
		Tomasello has been acknowledged as one of the world leaders of modern developmental psychology.
		This volume is especially important to those in the autism community, as it provides an up-to-date understanding of the amazing progress that has been made, in the past twenty years, in understanding language development.
		This book is also sold as part of the Hot List #2: Mind and Language, recommended reading for all professionals and required reading for all RDI Certified Consultants and Trainees.
	www.rdiconnect.com /resources/viewResource.asp?pid=187 (275 words)

	LOT Winter School 2001 -
		An attempt will be made at all points to relate syntactic development to other aspects of children's developing cognitive and communicative skills.
		Tomasello, M. & Brooks, P. Early syntactic development: A Construction Grammar approach.
		Tomasello, M. (Ed.) The new psychology of language: Cognitive and functional approaches to language structure.
	wwwlot.let.uu.nl /winterschool2001/cdtomasello.html (303 words)

	Colloquia Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensphysiologie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Both these uniquely primate and these uniquely human cognitive skills are hypothesized to have their origins in adaptations for negotiating complex social interactions.
		Michael Tomasello received his PhD in 1980 from the University of Georgia (USA); taught at Emory University and worked at Yerkes Primate Center (USA) from 1980 to 1998; since 1998 is Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
		Tomasello, M., Call, J., & Hare, B. Five primate species follow the visual gaze of conspecifics.
	www.orn.mpg.de /~knauer/coll/toma.html (284 words)

	Michael Tomasello Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Michael Tomasello Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, Tomasello demonstrates that we don't need a self-contained "language instinct" to explain how children learn language....
		In this book, Michael Tomasello and Josep Call assess the current state of our knowledge about the cognitive skills of non-human primates.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Michael_Tomasello (638 words)

	Conference on Collective Intentionality IV - Siena 13-15 October 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Support for this proposal is provided by systematic reviews of empirical research with human children (including those with autism) and great apes.
		Michael Tomasello is Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Honorary Professor of Psychology both at University of Leipzig and Manchester.
		He has published several books and articles on social cognition, social learning and communication from developmental, comparative and cultural perspectives.
	www.istc.cnr.it /collintIV/authors/Tomasello.htm (166 words)

	news 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Michael Tomasello is co-principal of MTS Gaming Services; a company specializing in slot development and operations.
		His background includes opening, operating, and advising for al forms of gaming projects, both nationally and internationally.
		Tomasello has opened and/or managed some of the most prestigious casinos in the gaming industry.
	www.mtsgaming.com /news_7.htm (1144 words)

	REVIEW OF Michael Tomasello and Elizabeth Bates (eds) Language Development: the essential readings
		REVIEW OF Michael Tomasello and Elizabeth Bates (eds) Language Development: the essential readings
		Bates and Tomasello are both productive and highly respected researchers in the acquisition of language.
		D.Slobin shows that there is too much cross-linguistic variability for the human species to have any preconceived ideas about what kinds of notions will and will not be indicated by grammatical rather than by lexical items.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /~jim/tomasello.bates.revu.html (984 words)

	Science and Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition by Michael Tomasello is the first book we are reading in the newly minted CogBlogGroup, a group of bloggers reading stuff about cognitive science.
		We'll see if Tomasello manages to persuade me further.
		This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
	sciencepolitics.blogspot.com /2005/08/cogblog-tomasello-chapter-1.html (3191 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		These include capacities fort sharing attention with other persons, for understanding that others have intentions of their own; and for imitating, not just what someone else does, but what someone else has intended to do.
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	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0674005821 (862 words)

	NBU-COGS: Summer: 1999: Course Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Tomasello, M. and Camaioni, L. ConA comparison of the gestural communication of apes and human infants.
		Michael Tomasello (Co-Director, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Emory University; Affiliate Scientist, Yerkes Primate Center).
		Research interests focus on language acquisition in children and gestural communication in chimpanzees.
	www.nbu.bg /cogs/events/ss99c2.html (398 words)

	ED-P Recent Acquisition List - February, 2000
		The cultural origins of human cognition / Michael Tomasello.
		(Series: Advances in social cognition ; v.12) Educ/Psych BF632.P47 1999 Forgiveness : theory, research, and practice / edited by Michael E. McCullough, Kenneth I. Pargament, Carl E. Thoresen.
		Educ/Psych BF637.F67F67 2000 Sanguineti, Vincenzo R. Landscapes in my mind : the origins and structure of the subjective experience / Vincenzo R. Sanguineti.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /EDP/newacq0200.html (1563 words)

	Mediamatic.net - Cognitive development: from human evolution to child language acquisition
		A symposium organized by the Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam, sparked by theories developed by Michael Tomasello.
		After the main program, Michael Tomasello will respond to the symposium.
		Until recently, one of the most frustrating problems for evolutional biologists was the fact that the process of evolution could not be directly perceived as a process.
	www.mediamatic.net /artefact-9192-en.html (941 words)

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