NSF Young Investigator

9458111 Povinelli该奖项提供支持博士丹尼尔Povinelli根据国家科学基金会的青年研究者奖计划。 该计划的目标是表彰科学和工程领域的优秀青年教师，通过为研究和教育活动提供灵活的支持来提高最近博士学位获得者的学术生涯，并促进学术界，工业界和支持研究和教育的机构之间的联系与合作。 Povinelli博士已经在体质人类学领域做出了重大的研究贡献，他有潜力成为学术研究和教育的领导者。 该奖项将使研究者能够在现有的自我意识研究的基础上，对黑猩猩和幼儿对自身和他人的能动性、意图、知识和信仰的理解进行一系列研究。 这项研究有望在限制我们对黑猩猩复杂社会行为的心理基础的解释方面取得相当大的进展。 此外，它将允许确定在人类和黑猩猩的认知发展的重叠程度有关的精神状态归因。 这将使进化生物学家能够更精确地重建巨猿-人类分支的原始认知特征，并确定人类认知的更多衍生特征。

9458111 Povinelli This award provides support to Dr. Daniel Povinelli under the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Awards program. The objective of this program is to recognize outstanding young faculty in science and engineering, to enhance the academic career of recent PhD recipients by providing flexible support for research and educational activities, and to foster contact and cooperation between academia, industry, and institutions that support research and education. Dr. Povinelli has already made significant research contributions to the field of physical anthropology, and he has the potential to become a leader in academic research and education. This award will allow the investigator to build on his existing research on self-awareness and to undertake series of studies of chimpanzees and young children's understanding of agency, intention, and knowledge and belief, in both themselves and others. The research holds promise of making considerable progress toward constraining our interpretations of the psychology underpinning complex social behavior in chimpanzees. Furthermore, it will allow a determination of the extent of overlap in human and chimpanzee cognitive development related to mental state attribution. This will allow evolutionary biologists to produce more precise reconstructions of the primitive cognitive features of the great ape-human clade, as well as a determination of the more derived features of human cognition.