Seems to be about the innards of actention modules. :->

Whilst this kind of research will keep academics busy and funded for the
foreseeable future (rather fine with me - and very fine for them), it is
ALREADY possible to achieve a powerful schematic (and philanthropically
oriented) overview of our human nature (and its phylogenetic, historical and
contemporary origins) based on ALREADY thoroughly scientifically Established
Principles & Theories.

"Bernhard Fink"  wrote in message
news:avsces$1nuv$1{at}darwin.ediacara.org...
> Dynamic Systems and Inferential Information Processing in Human
> Communication
>
> KARL GRAMMER, BERNHARD FINK, LEEANN RENNINGER
>
> Neuroendocrinology Letters,2002; 23(suppl 4):15-22
>
> Research in human communication on an ethological basis is almost
> obsolete. The reasons for this are manifold and lie partially in
> methodological problems connected to the observation and description
> of behavior, as well as the nature of human behavior itself. In this
> chapter, we present a new, non-intrusive, technical approach to the
> analysis of human non-verbal behavior, which could help to solve the
> problem of categorization that plagues the traditional approaches.
> We utilize evolutionary theory to propose a new theory-driven
> methodological approach to the multi-unit multi-channel
> modulation problem of human nonverbal communication. Within this
> concept, communication is seen as context-dependent (the meaning of
> a signal is adapted to the situation), as a multi-channel and a
> multi-unit process (a string of many events interrelated in
> communicative space and time), and as related to the function it
> serves. Such an approach can be utilized to successfully bridge the
> gap between evolutionary psychological research, which focuses on
> social cognition adaptations, and human ethology, which describes
> every day behavior in an objective, systematic way.
>
> http://www.nel.edu/23_s4/NEL231002R01_Grammer_Fink.htm
>
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