A mere few decades ago, culture was thought a unique human attribute. Evidence to the
contrary accumulated through the latter part of the twentieth century and has exploded in the …

A new class of visuomotor neuron has been recently discovered in the monkey's premotor
cortex: mirror neurons. These neurons respond both when a particular action is performed …

“You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don't mean science
fiction, or false stories about science, but, on the contrary, true ways of understanding how …

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

There exists an undeniable chasm between the capacities of humans and those of animals.
Our minds have spawned civilizations and technologies that have changed the face of the …

What was noted by EJ Langer (1978) remains true today: that much of contemporary
psychological research is based on the assumption that people are consciously and …

What is a meme? First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea,
behavior, or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation: stories …

The hypothesis that intelligence is an adaptation to deal with the complexity of living in semi‐
permanent groups of conspecifics, a situation that involves the potentially tricky balance of …

How does imitation occur? How can the motor plans necessary for imitating an action derive
from the observation of that action? Imitation may be based on a mechanism directly …

This review investigates two recent developments in artificial intelligence and neural
computation: learning from imitation and the development of humanoid robots. It is …