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SUMMARY:Conative and Emotional Psychobiology: Evidence from infancy and de
 velopmental neuroscience on the purposes and values of human cognition. - 
 Professor Colwyn Trevarthen\, Emeritus Professor of Child Psychology & Psy
 chobiology\, University of Edinburgh
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:Descriptive\, rather than experimental\, studies of prospectiv
 e control in infants’ movements and their intentional and emotional adju
 stments to circumstances\, bring evidence that a whole body self-aware con
 sciousness is innate. This ‘implicit’ human vitality and awareness is 
 immediately responsive to human expressions. The infant mind is capable of
  joining in regulation of intersubjective ‘projects’ or ‘proposition
 s’ of human body movement from immediately after birth\, and is soon abl
 e to participate as an actor in proto-conversations or games that give ple
 asure to adults. The development of a theory of the generation of communic
 ative conation and emotion\, as in Malloch’s ‘communicative musicality
 ’\, requires consideration of phenomena that the ‘cognitive revolution
 ’ and symbolic models of ‘explicit’ representation have failed to ta
 ke into account. Psychology has both practical and moral responsibility\, 
 especially in education\, therapy and social justice\, for scientific unde
 rstanding of the natural phenomena of personal experience and of the prima
 ry intentions and feelings of interpersonal or social life and cooperation
 . I will outline a theory of sensuous semiotics for cultural learning that
  precedes the acquisition of skill in the arts and in the informative comm
 unications of language in all its forms\, and I will attempt to relate thi
 s core human self and its adaptations for communication to principal featu
 res of prenatal and postnatal development of the body and brain.
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of  Psychology
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