{"id":2480,"date":"2013-04-22T15:47:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T15:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2018\/12\/24\/2478-revision-v1\/"},"modified":"2019-07-14T01:32:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T01:32:36","slug":"science-review-dolphin-cognition-and-communication-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/04\/22\/science-review-dolphin-cognition-and-communication-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Review: Dolphin cognition and communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Concept<\/strong>: Dolphin cognition, communication. And: Fission-fusion society; joint attention, false belief task.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>A fission-fusion society\u00a0is one in which the composition of groups changes according to time, environment, and activity, e.g. fusing to sleep, and fission to forage (via Wikipedia).<\/li>\n<li>Joint attention\u00a0is the shared focus of two individuals on an object. It has been argued to be fundamental for the formation of human culture.<\/li>\n<li>The ability to attribute\u00a0false belief\u00a0(which can be tested by a task) is an important milestone in human development; that another ego may have beliefs that diverge from one&#8217;s own.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source<\/strong>: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1364661313000478\">A Review\u00a0in\u00a0Trends in Cognitive Science<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(April 2013).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Choice of model<\/strong>: Bottlenose dolphins are different from humans since they: lack any specialized limb for manipulating the environment (esp. thumb); live in a 3D environment with few landmarks; limited usefulness for the modalities of chemosensation or vision, and primarily depend on the\u00a0acoustic\u00a0modality. They are similar to humans since they: live in a fission-fusion society; males form long-lasting alliances; females form long-lasting alliances with offspring; social learning allows the formation of distinct foraging traditions. Dolphins use sound to both explore the environment and communicate, whereas terrestrial species have divided these two largely between vision and sound modalities.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Current knowledge<\/strong>: Bottlenose dolphins in captivity can be taught referential sounds (e.g. for objects) and for acts, or modifiers (e.g. left or right). Can listen to nearby acoustic signal for echolocation, making joint attention possible.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Future knowledge<\/strong>: There is no adequate theory-of-mind for these dolphins, including how they behave in false-belief tasks. Additionally, by incorporating dolphins into a theory of communication, it is possible to create a model that is not limited by terrestrial modes of living (e.g. differing division of labors for sound\/vision modalities).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concept: Dolphin cognition, communication. And: Fission-fusion society; joint attention, false belief task. A fission-fusion society\u00a0is one in which the composition of groups changes according to time, environment, and activity, e.g. fusing to sleep, and fission to forage (via Wikipedia). Joint attention\u00a0is the shared focus of two individuals on an object. It has been argued to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,242,16,17],"tags":[],"metadata":[],"class_list":["post-2480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-evernote-entries","category-science","category-science-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2729,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/09\/23\/monday-september-23-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":2480,"position":0},"title":"Monday September 23, 2013","author":"Pala","date":"September 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm going to note my Kant reading, and utilize a variation of mind mapping (cf. 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I wanted to have a bird's eye view; I ended up in outer space.\u00a0(Preface) There's something\u00a0inexpressible\u00a0about\u00a0SF[1]. This\u00a0inexpressible something, the author suggests, reflects the role of SF in helping us parse\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All Posts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All Posts","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/all-posts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2485,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/05\/16\/science-review-bioproxies-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":2480,"position":3},"title":"Science Review: Bioproxies","author":"Pala","date":"May 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Source: [TREND_G] The desired outcome\u00a0after having 'known'\u00a0this concept\u00a0is a novel perception. The seed for this perception is the concept of bioproxies, that I can define as 'xyz', and in the literature includes the following distinctions 'a,b,c'. 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