The Social Brain on the Internet
In primates and humans alike, the number of social relationships an individual can have is constrained in part by its social cognitive competences and...
New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution
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An interdisciplinary conference focusing on new ideas and discoveries in research on the evolution of human cognition The conference focuses on genetic, developmental, and socio-cultural processes that have played a particularly significant role in the evolution of human cognition, and on uniquely human cognitive achievements in domains such as causal understanding, language, social learning, theory of mind and meta-cognition. The event was supported by All Souls College, The British Academy, Guarantors of Brain, and Magdalen College's Calleva Centre, and took place on 23rd and 24th June 2011.
Why the Hominin Cognitive Niche Was and Is a Crucially Socio-cognitive Niche
Tooby and deVore argued that hominin evolution hinged on the exploitation of a unique 'cognitive niche'. We propose that a diversity of evidence indic...
Metacognition and the Social Mind: How Individuals Interact at the Neural Level
I will review recent research in neuroimaging and computation neuroscience, and present a new paradigm for studying decision making in pairs. Results ...
Experiencing Language
The evolutionary relationship between human linguistic capacity and humans' emotional make-up has not, as yet, received focused attention. Was the evo...
Signals, Honesty and the Evolution of Language
The evolution of language is a long-standing puzzle for many reasons. One is that its very virtues as a system of communication seem to open the door ...
The Social Brain on the Internet
In primates and humans alike, the number of social relationships an individual can have is constrained in part by its social cognitive competences and...
Why the Hominin Cognitive Niche Was and Is a Crucially Socio-cognitive Niche
Tooby and deVore argued that hominin evolution hinged on the exploitation of a unique 'cognitive niche'. We propose that a diversity of evidence indic...
Metacognition and the Social Mind: How Individuals Interact at the Neural Level
I will review recent research in neuroimaging and computation neuroscience, and present a new paradigm for studying decision making in pairs. Results ...
Experiencing Language
The evolutionary relationship between human linguistic capacity and humans' emotional make-up has not, as yet, received focused attention. Was the evo...
Signals, Honesty and the Evolution of Language
The evolution of language is a long-standing puzzle for many reasons. One is that its very virtues as a system of communication seem to open the door ...