[permalink] [id link]
Washoe had lived at Central Washington University since 1980 ; on October 30, 2007, officials from the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute on the CWU campus announced that she had died at the age of 42.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Washoe and had
At its peak, Bearcreek and the surrounding communities of Washoe, New Caledonia, Chickentown, Scotch Coulee, International, and Stringtown, had a population of about 3, 000 people, most of whom worked in the coal mines.
However, the results, according to Fouts, were not as impressive as had been reported from the Washoe project.
Washoe had her own 8 x 24 foot trailer complete with living and cooking areas.
At the time of observation, Washoe showed no signs of having learned the sign, but on a later occasion she reacted to the sight of a toothbrush by spontaneously producing the correct sign, thereby showing that she had in fact previously learned the ASL sign.
For researchers to consider that Washoe had learned a sign, she had to use it spontaneously and appropriately for 14 consecutive days.
Washoe and her mates were able to combine the hundreds of signs that they learned into novel combinations ( that they had never been taught, but rather created themselves ) with different meanings.
When new students came to work with Washoe, she would slow down her rate of signing for novice speakers of sign language, which had a humbling effect on many of them.
* USNS Washoe County ( T-LST-1165 ), a United States Navy landing ship tank in non-commissioned service in the Military Sealift Command as a cargo ship in 1973 which had previously been in commission as USS Washoe County ( LST-1165 ),.
* Imitation: After Washoe had learned a couple of words, she started, like chimpanzees usually do, to imitate naturally.
* Differentiation: Washoe used the sign " more " in many different situations until a more specific sign had been learned.
As of the 1990 census, New Washoe City had a population of 2, 875 but was not designated as a census-designated place ( CDP ) at the 2000 census.
Washoe and lived
Washoe lived 24 hours a day with her human family from birth ; Nim at 2 weeks old was raised by a family in a home environment by human surrogate parents to see if he could refute Noam Chomsky's thesis that language is inherent only in humans.
Washoe people have lived in the Great Basin for at least the last 6000 years.
Washoe and at
* The university was home to the signing chimpanzee Washoe from 1980 until her death in October 2007 ; from 1993 at the university's Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute.
Lane graduated as a lawyer, and in 1979, he became Chief Deputy Sheriff of Investigative Services at the Washoe County Sheriff's Office.
In 1967, Allen and Beatrix Gardner established a project to teach Washoe ASL at the University of Nevada, Reno.
" Washoe stared at her, then looked down.
( Note: Washoe herself lost two children ; one baby died shortly after birth of a heart defect, the other baby, Sequoyah, died of a staph infection at two months of age.
Gardner's brother, R. Allen Gardner, is a professor of comparative psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno and is famous for teaming with his wife on Project Washoe, the attempt to teach American Sign Language to a chimpanzee named Washoe.
He ran for the position of President of the National Congress of American Indians in 2001 and won his campaign at the annual convention in Spokane, Washington over Chairman Brian Wallance of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada.
The pipe traversed the Washoe Valley in the form of an inverted siphon, and at the lowest point having a pressure of of water, or 800 pounds per square inch.
In fact, he suffered a severe heart attack before the election, and died after the election at the Washoe General Hospital in Reno, Nevada.
He is interred at Masonic Memorial Gardens, Reno, Washoe County, Nevada USA.
A report by Cleve Hicks of the Bili Apes Project, at Richard Dawkins. net ( also available, with photos, at the Friends of Washoe site )
A report by Cleve Hicks of the Bili Apes Project, at Richard Dawkins. net ( also available, with photos, at the Friends of Washoe site )
A report by Cleve Hicks of the Bili Apes Project, at Richard Dawkins. net ( also available, with photos, at the Friends of Washoe site )
New Washoe City is located at 39 ° 17 ' N, 119 ° 46 ' W ( 39. 30133 ,-119. 77178 ) and has a population of approximately 2, 875.
On February 27, 1943, at approximately 9: 37 a. m., an explosion ripped through Smith Mine No. 3, a coal mine located between the towns of Bearcreek and Washoe.
It lies almost entirely in Washoe County ( 99. 88 %), with but tiny amounts of land in the other two counties ( at the southern end, near the city of Fernley ).
Washoe and Central
Rails were extended North across the Washoe valley, from Carson City to Reno, where it connects with the Central Pacific.
In September 1980, Washoe, Loulis, and Moja moved to Central Washington University.
As a regional Indian museum, the collection at Chaw ' se includes exhibits on the Northern, Central and Southern Miwok, Maidu, Konkow, Monache, Nisenan, Tubatulabal, Washoe, and Foothill Yokuts.
Washoe and University
When Washoe was five, the Gardners decided to move on to other projects, and she was moved to the University of Oklahoma's Institute of Primate Studies in Norman, Oklahoma, under the care of the Foutses.
Born Frederic Joseph DeLonchant in Reno, Nevada on January 2, 1882, he was raised in Washoe County, graduating from Reno High School in 1900, then the University of Nevada in 1904 with a degree in mining engineering.
Washoe and ;
The other major industries are a Union Pacific switching station in Gerlach and public services of Washoe County, which includes its roads department and a K – 12 public school owned by the Washoe County School District ; the future of the Gerlach K – 12 School is unknown, as it is estimated that after the gypsum plant closes only around a dozen children will remain in Gerlach.
Again, support is stronger in the rural areas ( where most people were born in Nevada ) and weaker in Clark County and Washoe County ; women are more opposed to the idea than men.
The Washoe language is tentatively regarded as part of the Hokan language family ; however, it is also considered to be a language isolate.
* " Dawn, Washoe Valley ; Big Dusk ; Pyramid Lake " ( 1932 )
Washoe and on
Incline Village – Crystal Bay is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Washoe County, Nevada on the north shore of Lake Tahoe.
The researchers therefore questioned claims made on behalf of Washoe, and argued that the apparently impressive results may have amounted to nothing more than a " Clever Hans " effect, not to mention a relatively informal experimental approach.
She is well known for her comparative studies into the cognitive fundamentals of language and communication, and was one of the first to try to extend work on language learning in animals other than humans ( exemplified by the Washoe project ) to a bird species.
Washoe ( c. September 1965 Ellensburg – October 30, 2007 ) was a female chimpanzee who was the first non-human to learn to communicate using American Sign Language, as part of a research experiment on animal language acquisition.
While with Washoe, the Gardners and Fouts were careful to only communicate in ASL with Washoe, rather than using vocal communication, on the assumption that this would create a less confusing learning environment for Washoe.
' OK but first clothes ' ( Washoe puts on jacket.
Winnemucca Lake, just east of Pyramid Lake in the northwestern portion of the U. S. state of Nevada is on the dividing line between Washoe County and Pershing County counties.
Derby Dam is a diversion dam on the Truckee River, located between Reno and Fernley in Storey and Washoe counties in the U. S. state of Nevada.
Washoe ( chimpanzee ) | Washoe, a female Common Chimpanzee | chimpanzee who was the first non-human to learn to communicate using American Sign Language, as part of a animal research | research experiment on animal language acquisition.
Washoe resistance to incursions on their lands proved futile, and the last armed conflict with the Washoes and non-Indians was the " Potato War " of 1857, when starving Washoes were killed for gathering potatoes from a European-American farm near Honey Lake in California.
Loss of the valley hunting grounds to farms and the Piñon pine groves to feed Virginia City's demand for lumber and charcoal drove most Washoe to dependency on jobs in white ranches, farms and cities.
The Washo language ( Washo: wá: šiw ʔítlu ) ( also Washoe ) is an endangered Native American language isolate spoken by the Washo on the California – Nevada border in the drainages of the Truckee and Carson Rivers, especially around Lake Tahoe.
Film locations included the Washoe County Court House on Virginia Street and Quail Canyon, near Pyramid Lake.
* Bethel AME Church ( Reno, Nevada ), listed on the NRHP in Washoe County
Dr. McQueen served on the Washoe County School District Board of Trustees from 1969 – 1990, during which the district built several new schools, including Reed and McQueen.
0.243 seconds.