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 compe...
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New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution
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 pro...
Episodes
11 episodesWhy 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 evid...
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...
Experiencing Language
The evolutionary relationship between human linguistic capacity and humans' emotional make-up has not, as yet, received focused attention. W...
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...
Embodiment: Taking Sociality Seriously
A very wise person of our acquaintance once said, 'Read old books to get new ideas'. Here, we pursue the ideas presented in old books by Lev...
Cortico-cerebellar Evolution and the Distributed Neural Basis of Cognition
Biologists interested in cognitive evolution have focussed on the dramatic expansion of the forebrain, particularly the neocortex, in lineag...
A New Comparative Psychology
In their classic 1969 paper Hodos and Campbell bemoaned the absence of appropriate evolutionary theory in comparative psychology. In this ta...
The Mystery of Cumulative Culture
Human demographic and ecological success is frequently attributed to our capacity for cumulative culture, which allows human knowledge and t...
Cultural Inheritance of Cultural Learning
It is widely acknowledged that the cumulative cultural inheritance of technological skills and social practices has played a major role in s...
Welcome and Introduction
Introduction to the "New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution" conference.