Causal understanding is a defining characteristic of human cognition. Like many animals,
human children learn to control their bodily movements and act effectively in the …

Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in the efficiency and
complexity of tools and techniques in human populations over generations. A fascinating …

This paper briefly introduces radical embodied cognitive science (RECS) and places it in
historical perspective. Radical embodied cognitive science is an interdisciplinary approach …

Human children benefit from a possibly unique set of adaptations facilitating the acquisition
of knowledge about material culture. They represent artifacts (human-made objects) as tools …

What could someone represent that would enable her to track, at least within limits, others'
perceptions, knowledge states and beliefs including false beliefs? An obvious possibility is …

Natural selection is one of the core mechanisms of evolution, a unifying principle in biology,
and the process responsible for the functional adaptation of biological organisms. Despite its …

Prior work suggests that active experience affects infants' understanding of simple actions.
The present studies compared the impact of active and observational experience on infants' …

Boyer's theory of counterintuitive cultural concept transmission claims that concepts that
ideas that violate naturally occurring intuitive knowledge structures enough to be attention …

An examination of the cognitive foundations of intuitions about the existence and attributes
of God. Questions about the existence and attributes of God form the subject matter of …

In this ground-breaking book, Aristotelian and evolutionary understandings of human social
nature are brought together to provide an integrative, psychological account of human …