Seeing the interactions between other people is a critical part of our everyday visual
experience, but recognizing the social interactions of others is often considered outside the …

We propose that human social cognition is structured around a basic understanding of
ourselves and others as intuitive utility maximizers: from a young age, humans implicitly …

This book argues that there is a joint in nature between seeing and thinking, perception, and
cognition. Perception is constitutively iconic, nonconceptual, and nonpropositional, whereas …

Mitä on hyvä elämä? Kummat ovat ihmiselle tunnusomaisempia, positiiviset vai negatiiviset
tunteet? Voiko ihminen oppia elämään myönteisellä tavalla? Markku Ojasen Positiivinen …

What do infants know? How does the knowledge that they begin with prepare them for
learning about the particular physical, cultural, and social world in which they live? Answers …

Recent progress in artificial intelligence has renewed interest in building systems that learn
and think like people. Many advances have come from using deep neural networks trained …

Neuroscience has focused on the detailed implementation of computation, studying neural
codes, dynamics and circuits. In machine learning, however, artificial neural networks tend …

Winner of the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology, American
Psychological Association Winner of a PROSE Award, Association of American Publishers …

The challenge of studying human cognitive evolution is identifying unique features of our
intelligence while explaining the processes by which they arose. Comparisons with …

We develop a cultural evolutionary theory of the origins of prosocial religions and apply it to
resolve two puzzles in human psychology and cultural history:(1) the rise of large-scale …