Humans can find music happy, sad, fearful or spiritual. They can be soothed by it or urged to
dance. Whether these psychological responses reflect cognitive adaptations that evolved …

Theories of how humans came to be so ecologically dominant increasingly centre on the
adaptive abilities of human culture and its capacity for cumulative change and high-fidelity …

In Understanding Religion through Artificial Intelligence, Justin E. Lane looks at the reasons
why humans feel they are part of a religious group, despite often being removed from other …

This article presents a developmental pathway for the acquisition of morphosyntactic
variation. Although there is abundant evidence that morphosyntactic variation is pervasive …

While the languages of the world differ in many respects, they share certain commonalties,
which can provide insight on our shared cognition. Here, we explore the learnability …

When linguistic input contains inconsistent use of grammatical forms, children produce these
forms more consistently, a process called “regularization.” Deaf children learning American …

While variation occurs in both phonology and morphosyntax, phonological variation also
includes phonetic variation motivated by articulatory or perceptual factors. While learning in …

Probability matching has long been taken as a prime example of irrational behaviour in
human decision making; however, its nature and uniqueness in the animal world is still …

Silent gesture studies, in which hearing participants from different linguistic backgrounds
produce gestures to communicate events, have been used to test hypotheses about the …

Word order harmony describes the tendency, found across the world's languages, to
consistently order syntactic heads relative to dependents. It is one of the most well-known …