{"id":530,"date":"2014-07-28T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T03:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lynx.let.hokudai.ac.jp\/cerss_tmp\/?p=530"},"modified":"2024-02-29T12:54:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T03:54:18","slug":"making-of-humanities-biological-roots-of-mathematics-and-cooperation-a-joint-workshop-of-social-psychology-and-neuroethology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lynx.let.hokudai.ac.jp\/cerss\/2014\/07\/28\/making-of-humanities-biological-roots-of-mathematics-and-cooperation-a-joint-workshop-of-social-psychology-and-neuroethology\/","title":{"rendered":"Making of Humanities: Biological Roots of Mathematics and Cooperation -A joint workshop of Social Psychology and Neuroethology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tentative time table: 9:30am \u2013 11:30am (session 1), 1:00pm \u2013 3:00pm (session 2)<br>Venue: Hokkaido University (Sapporo Campus); Exact place will be announced in due\u00a0time.<br>Organizers: Toshiya Matsushima (Department of Biology, Faculty of Science) and Tatsuya Kameda (Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences, Faculty of Letters) in Hokkaido University<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Perspectives:<\/strong><br>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0This workshop aims at integrative bio-psychological approaches toward understanding of human beings in terms of their \u201csunny sides\u201d of intelligence. Particular attentions will be focused on two domains: Mathematics and large-scale Cooperation. To address these topics, we will adopt traditional strategy of ethology, that is the \u201cTimbergen\u2019s four questions.\u201d Through understanding of evolution, development, function and mechanism, we would expect to gain comprehensive views.<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0People often say that mathematics is the Queen of sciences. Actually, numerical accountings could underlie our reasoning in many aspects. However, biology \/ psychology could predate instead, and mathematical thinking could originate from ancestral mental representation of magnitudes. Questions are therefore, how our sense of number is shared among animals of diverse phylogeny and how it is formed.<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In the morning session 1,\u00a0Giorgio Vallortigara (Univ Trento, Italy)\u00a0will tell us how newly hatched domestic chicks count number and do arithmetic, stressing the core knowledge possibly shared by animals and humans.\u00a0Elisabeth Brannon (Duke Univ, USA)\u00a0will tell us how 6 months old human infants sense numbers and how their sense develops to mathematical thinking and argue that non-verbal origins of number representations.\u00a0Tetsuro Matsuzawa (Kyoto Univ, Japan)\u00a0will tell us how chimpanzees form working memory of numerical order, and discuss why they often predominate humans.\u00a0Shinsuke Shimojo (Cal Tech, USA)\u00a0is expected to give comments on these topical talks, addressing the underlying perceptive mechanisms of modality-independent sense of time and frequency.<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Similarly, the order of human social life is characterized by large-scale cooperation which is often reflected in our sense of justice, or empathetic concern that accommodates morality. The cooperation has dynamics that is often shared among diverse cultures, thus could also have bio-psychological basis.<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In the afternoon session 2,\u00a0Shinya Yamamoto (Kobe Univ, Japan)\u00a0will tell us how helping behavior and its cognition evolved based on empirical studies with chimpanzees and bonobos.\u00a0Naoki Masuda (Univ Bristol, UK)\u00a0will tell us how large-scale cooperation among non-kin members may be evolutionarily stable using a game-theoretic model.\u00a0Tatsuya Kameda (Hokkaido Univ, Japan)\u00a0will tell us how empathic concern may shape our sense of justice in distribution of resources among non-kin. Commentaries by\u00a0Michael Platt (Duke Univ, USA)\u00a0on these three topics are expected to address the link between the neural mechanisms and the evolution of large-scale cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tentative time table: 9:30am \u2013 11:30am (session 1), 1:00pm \u2013 3:00pm (session 2)Venue: Hokkaido Unive...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-61","tag-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynx.let.hokudai.ac.jp\/cerss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynx.let.hokudai.ac.jp\/cerss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynx.let.hokudai.ac.jp\/cerss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynx.let.hokudai.ac.jp\/cerss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynx.let.hokudai.ac.jp\/cerss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lynx.let.hokudai.ac.jp\/cerss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/lynx.let.hokudai.ac.jp\/cerss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynx.let.hokudai.ac.jp\/cerss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynx.let.hokudai.ac.jp\/cerss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynx.let.hokudai.ac.jp\/cerss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynx.let.hokudai.ac.jp\/cerss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}