Abstract for Rosie Karin-D'Arcy
Just learning to pay attention to others
yields a great deal of cognitive currency. Learning to engage in
joint attention may be the key to human social learning mechanisms such
as teaching and imitation. I will present a model which links human socio-cognitive
processes through the mechanism of attentional coordination. Next
I will present a methodological framework for the comparison of attentional
interactions across situations and species. Through this method,
we may find that the emergence of the human socio-cognitive environment
may be as simple as the level of attentional coordination attained by its
constituents.