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こころと集団行動
魚、サル、ヒトの行動から考える

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poster

日時: 2017年3月13日 14:00−17:00
場所: 東京大学・駒場キャンパス 900番教室
参加費: 無料
申込: 右URLから goo.gl/3ic2Ds 締切:3月12日(注意:懇親会の申込は3月3日)
ポスター: http://ecs.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/activity/symposium/FY2016/March13.pdf

特別講演 14時
「さかなの集団行動」
さかなクン (東京海洋大学 名誉博士 客員准教授)

研究講演 15時
「ニホンザルの集団の多様性」
大西賢治 (東京大学 総合文化研究科 研究員)

研究講演・ダンス 16時
「コンテンポラリーダンスをみんなで踊ってみるとどうなる?
:創作に着目したダンス教育プログラムのデザインとその効果」
中野優子 (東京大学 学際情報学府 博士課程)
東海林靖志(ダンサー)、Cュタツヤ(ダンサー)


懇親会
時間: 17:30ー
場所: 東京大学・駒場キャンパス 18号館4階 オープンスペース
参加費: 一般3500円、学生2500円
申込: 右URLから goo.gl/3ic2Ds 締切:3月3日


問い合せ先
東京大学 進化認知科学研究センター 中谷裕教・明地洋典
E-mail: symposium@ecs.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp
TEL: 03-5454-6709

取材については下記にお問い合わせ下さい
東京大学大学院総合文化研究科・教養学部広報室
http://www.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/info/about/contact/index.html


テーマ:Agreement Beyond Phi
日時:2017年3月13-14日 両日とも13:00-18:30
場所:駒場国際教育研究棟(KIBER)3階 314室

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Agreement Beyond Phi
宮川繁博士(MIT / University of Tokyo)
2017年3月13-14日 両日とも13:00~18:30
駒場国際教育研究棟(KIBER)3階 314室

(講義はLecture 1~4からなります。講義概要は末尾をご覧下さい)

会場は上記のとおりを予定していますが、参加人数によっては教室変更となる可能性があります。
そのため、お越しになるご予定の方は3月7日までに以下のフォームにてご登録いただけると助かります。
(登録なしでも参加できますが、椅子がないかも知れません)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEuyT_chl3X8bztbCb0kaxFM4PjSubgiCJnGVhh2x7UUznFg/viewform?c=0&w=1

Lecture Series
Shigeru Miyagawa, MIT/UTokyo

These lectures are based on Agreement Beyond Phi, Linguistic Inquiry Monograph, MIT Press (February 2017).

March 13 (13:00-15:30)
Lecture 1: Allocutive Agreement and the Root

I will take up agreements that agree with a discourse participant - hearer or speaker. A typical case is found in the Souletin dialect of Basque, in which, along with the regular agreement with the subject and other arguments, there is an agreement that agrees with the addressee, such as feminine, singular, colloquial. This is called allocutive agreement. I show that the allocutive agreement requires the performative analysis as earlier proposed by Ross (1970) and recently updated by Speas and Tenny (2003) as "Speech Act Projection." I will show that the distribution of the SAP exactly matches the definition of "root" that Emonds (1969) proposed. I will give other examples of the allocutive agreement, including the politeness marker -mas- in Japanese and speaker/hearer agreements in the Tibeto-Burman languages, Jingpo and Newari.

March 13 (16:00-18:30)
Lecture 2: Topicalization Across Languages

Topicalization is an operation that typically places a phrase at the left-edge of an expression. Developing a proposal for topics in Chomsky (1977), and using Frascarelli and Hinterhol's (2007) categorization of topics, I will show that across languages, there are topics (Aboutness topic) that uniformly occur in the topic position above CP (S”) as argued by Chomsky while other topic types (Contrastive, Familiar) vary in their position depending on the language. In some languages these topics occur in the same position as the Aboutness topic, above CP, while in others they may occur in TP. This variation in the position of the topic is unexpected in the cartographic approach, which postulates topic positions that are presumably uniform across languages. I will also show the relevancy of the work here to Emonds’s (1969) original proposal for roots, and Hooper and Thompson’s (1973) challenge to Emonds’s proposal, and the recent extension of Hooper and Thompson’s work by Haegeman (2010, 2012).

March 14 (13:00-15:30)
Lecture 3: Pro-drop, E-type Pronouns, and Agreement

Pro-drop is one of the most extensively studied topics in the GB era; these studies typically assumed that the empty element is some form of a pronoun as suggested by the name of the phenomenon. Huang (1991) and Otani and Whitman (1991) identified pro that can have a sloppy interpretation, something that isn’t expected if the empty element is a common pronoun. Huang, and Otani and Whitman, argued that the sloppy interpretation is made possible by VP ellipsis, not pro-drop. Oku (1998), while agreeing that it is not a pro, argued that what is being elided is a fully-specified noun phrase. This has come to be called argument ellipsis, and it is the dominant proposal for the source of the sloppy interpretation. Using Oikonomou’s (to appear) approach, I will argue that the sloppy interpretation is an instance of E-type pronoun, in turn returning us to the original idea that the empty slots are due to pro-drop. I will also look in detail at different manifestations of the pro. In Japanese and Romance, the pro easily finds reference in the discourse context, and the referent is not limited to any grammatical category. In Chinese, the subject pro cannot easily refer “out” to the conversation, and within the sentence, it is limited to the closest subject for its antecedent. I will argue that the difference between Japanese/Romance and Chinese is a difference between strong and weak pronouns.

March 14 (16:00-18:30)
Lecture 4: The Distribution and Structure of 'Why'

There are two approaches to ‘why’, the movement analysis and the externally merge analysis, the latter originally due to Bromberger (1987, 1992) and Rizzi (1990), later extended in important ways by Ko (2005), Stephanov and Tsai (2008), among others. There are two questions I will address. First, while many languages appear to have both options for ‘why’, Japanese (and possibly Korean) does not appear to have the externally merged option. I will argue that this difference is due to where the focus feature occurs in a language. Second, while many wh-in-situ languages manifest an intervention effect, ‘why’ overcomes intervention. This has been reported in Japanese and Korean. I will argue that the “anti-intervention” effect arises from the general structure of ‘why’, which I will propose by extending proposals in Beck (1996) and Shlonsky and Soare (2011). Within this general proposal for the structure of ‘why’, I will use an insight by Ko (2005) to distinguish those languages that have the anti-intervention effect (Japanese, Korean) from those that do not (Chinese).
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同時にご案内 こちらのほうもぜひ。

進化における言語の外在化
Evolution and the Externalization of Language
講師:宮川 繁氏(MIT教授、東京大学大学総合教育研究センター特任教授)
日時:2017年3月12日(日)13:00-18:00
会場:慶應義塾大学三田キャンパス 北館3階 大会議室
参加費無料 申込不要(使用言語:日本語・英語)

セミナー:Daisuke Shimaoka
日時:2017年2月22日 12:30-13:30
場所:駒場キャンパス 3号館 113室

センター主催

Time & Date: 12:30-13:30, Feb 22nd
Place : Room 113, Building #3, Komaba 1 Campus
Speaker: Daisuke Shimaoka
Title: New approaches to understanding body-based communication in the dorsal stream

The spontaneous activity of the brain is thought to be a souce of behavioral variability, and has certain network structure across brain regions, known as default-mode network. Is this structure fully determined by anatomical connectivity or modulated by the brain state? We monitored spontaneous membrane potential of genetically-identified neural populations under anesthetized and awake behaving conditions from both cerebral hemispheres of transgenic mice expressing a Genetically-Encoded Voltage Indicator. From deep anesthesia till awakening, a conserved repertoire of distinct slow wave motifs was observed across cortical areas. Toward awakening, the incidence of individual motifs changed systematically and both local circuit dynamics and interaction between remote cortical areas accelerated. During awake when mice freely locomote, locomotion depolarized visual and auditory cortex, while markedly hyperpolarizing barrel cortex. These findings highlight that functional endogenous interactions between distant cortical areas can also be modulated by the brain state. Finally, preliminary results during mice performing a visual detection task will be discussed.

テーマ:Coupled oscillator dynamics of vocal turn-taking in monkeys
日時:2016年12月13日 14:30-
場所:駒場キャンパス 3号館 113室

センター共催

13:00 Introduction
Tomoya Nakai, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Jean-Julien Aucouturier, Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM)

Session 1: Music
13:10 Chills and tears as two types of psychophysiological responses to music Kazuma Mori, Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet)
13:40 Psychological stress disorganizes dexterous movements in musical performance Shinichi Furuya, Sophia University, Faculty of Science and Technology
14:10 Uncovering mental representations of social traits in the voice Emmanuel Ponsot, Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM)
14:40 Is musical consonance a signal of social affiliation? Jean-Julien Aucouturier, Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM)

15:10 Break

Session 2: Speech
15:40 Effects of speaker identity on emotion-related auditory change detection Laura Rachman, Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM)
16:20 Cross-language interaction in emotion recognition Tomoya Nakai, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
16:50 Laughing rats, crying rats Yumi Saito, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
17:20 Emotional mimicry induced by manipulated speech Pablo Arias, Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM)

テーマ:Workshop on Music cognition, emotion and audio technology
日時:2016年11月7日 13:00-18:00
場所:駒場キャンパス 3号館 113室

センター共催

Time & Date: 5PM, Oct 25th
Place : Room 113, Building #3, Komaba 1 Campus
Title: New approaches to understanding body-based communication in the dorsal stream

Emotions and the Body discusses the neural basis and temporal processing signatures of emotional body language by drawing on state- of-the-art research in the neuropsychology of emotional face and body disorders. Beatrice de Gelder explores a range of fascinating questions such as: How do facial and bodily expressions interact? What role does emotional body language play in social interaction? If body language is perceived even with limited attention and reduced visual awareness, as studies with patients have shown, then what is the nature of emotional experience, and how is awareness affected? Are some cultures less expressive in their body language? And are there notable gender and cultural differences in emotional body language, as is the case for facial expressions?

Research on emotional body language shows that emotions are tools for adaptive action, and that they allow us to predict interactions with real, imagined, and virtual others. These data prompt de Gelder to consider virtual bodies as well as physical ones, including avatars and robots. The wide-ranging implications of her study will appeal especially to scholars and students of cognitive neuroscience, but also to those working in such related fields as information and communication technology, computer science, animation, and robotics.

テーマ:Risk and resilience after childhood maltreatment - neurobiological models of the impact of early adversity on child development
日時:2016年9月15日 16:00-
場所:駒場キャンパス 3号館 113室

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Speaker: Dr. Vanessa Puets, Department of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London
https://drrulab.wordpress.com/people/
Title: Risk and resilience after childhood maltreatment - neurobiological models of the impact of early adversity on child development

Childhood maltreatment, including neglect, is associated with a wide range of maladaptive outcomes for mental and physical health as well as social. Childhood maltreatment has been associated with a neural sensitivity to facial cues signalling threat and social cues signalling rejection. However, little is known about how maltreatment influences the processing of social threat cues more broadly, and whether atypical processing of social threat cues relates to psychiatric risk. According to the theory of latent vulnerability, childhood maltreatment calibrates and sensitizes a number of neurocognitive systems in line with early at-risk environments, with potentially adaptive benefits in the short term but with longer-term costs. The atypical processing of social threat potentially constitutes a candidate mechanism indexing latent vulnerability to future psychopathology in general and PTSD in particular. I will discuss several strands of neurobiological research (fMRI / sMRI / DTI) investigating these stress-susceptible systems in children with a documented maltreatment experience.

テーマ:Prosocial Behavior, Trust, and Redistributive Politics: A cross-talk between neuroscience and political science
日時:2016年8月8日 16:30-18:00
場所:駒場キャンパス 3号館 113室

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台湾国立大学で社会的行動に関する神経科学的な研究を行っている研究チームから 政治学者のHans H. Tung先生(Harvard Ph.D)と医学部所属の心理・脳神経科学者の Chien-Te Wu先生(Duke Ph.D.)を招いて研究会を開催致します。

スケジュール
16:30 - 18:00 研究会
18:00 - 18:30 進化認知センターの実験施設見学
18:30 - 懇親会(駒場周辺)

連絡事項
懇親会への参加を希望される方は8月4日までに下記までご連絡下さい。
 進化認知科学研究センター、助教
 中谷裕教
 hnakatani@ecs.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp (@を半角にして下さい)

Workshop on Evo-Devo of Vocal Learning and Plasticity
July 31st (Sun)

Co-sponsored by Okanoya Laboratory (The University of Tokyo), The Science of Metal Time (Mext Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas)

Venue: Komcee-East B1F K011, Komaba, The University of Tokyo
Time: 1:10 - 5:30PM

Human speech depends on our ability for vocal learning. Vocal learning evolved independently in humans, birds, whales, bats, and elephants. How this trait evolved? What is the relationship between vocal development and vocal learning? What are common neural and molecular features? In this symposium, we gather specialists in this field and discuss Evo-Devo of vocal learning and plasticity.

Time Table

13:10 Introduction (Kazuo Okanoya)
13:20 Evolution of vocal learning: a deep homology (Erich Jarvis, Duke University)
14:10 A Monkey Model System for Early Speech Development (Daniel Takahashi, Princeton University)
15:00 Break
15:10 Predisposition of vocal learnability in hybrid songbirds( Kazuhiro Wada & Azusa Sawai, Hokkaido University))
15:30 A review of sound production and developments in cetaceans (Tomonari Akamatsu, National Research Institute of Fisheries Science)
15:50 Vocalization of horseshoe bat: Echolocation or Communication? (Kohta Kobayashi, Doshisha University)
16:10 Possible functions other than vocal behavior of the vocal learning system in birds (Yoshimasa Seki, Aichi University)
16:30 Source of vocal variation in birds and humans (Kazuo Okanoya & Yulri Nonaka, The University of Tokyo)
16:50 Comments (Atsushi Iriki)
17:00 Discussion (Kazuo Okanoya)
17:30 Conclusion