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View article: Inference over hidden contexts shapes the geometry of conceptual knowledge for flexible behaviour
Inference over hidden contexts shapes the geometry of conceptual knowledge for flexible behaviour Open
Flexible decision-making in uncertain environments requires inferring latent structure and selecting behaviourally relevant information. Here, we tested the hypothesis that internal models support this process by compressing high-dimension…
View article: Correction: Correlates of Vocal Tract Evolution in Late Pliocene and Pleistocene Hominins
Correction: Correlates of Vocal Tract Evolution in Late Pliocene and Pleistocene Hominins Open
View article: Ambiguity aversion and value uncertainty generate an endowment effect
Ambiguity aversion and value uncertainty generate an endowment effect Open
We show how the endowment effect can be interpreted in terms of ambiguity aversion. Agents take status quo as their reference point, relative to which they evaluate potential trades. The value of exchanged goods is ambiguous, represented b…
View article: Metonymisation: Three Levels of Refocusing
Metonymisation: Three Levels of Refocusing Open
Common proposals for classifying metonyms build on the contiguity of the meaning of a metonym compared to its original meaning. In contrast, this article offers a model of metonymisation that focuses on the cognitive underpinnings and sees…
View article: Correlates of Vocal Tract Evolution in Late Pliocene and Pleistocene Hominins
Correlates of Vocal Tract Evolution in Late Pliocene and Pleistocene Hominins Open
View article: Expressives, directives and assertions: Cognitive dimensions of speech acts
Expressives, directives and assertions: Cognitive dimensions of speech acts Open
Despite the considerable amount of research devoted to speech act theory, relatively little attention has been paid to the cognitive foundations underlying different speech act classes. This article addresses this gap by introducing a fram…
View article: Correlates of vocal tract evolution in late Pliocene and Pleistocene hominins
Correlates of vocal tract evolution in late Pliocene and Pleistocene hominins Open
Despite decades of research, the field of language evolution lacks a cohesive integrative account capable of explicating linguistic evolution throughout the history of modern humans. We review paleoanthropological and archaeological findin…
View article: Correlates of vocal tract evolution in late Pliocene and Pleistocene hominins
Correlates of vocal tract evolution in late Pliocene and Pleistocene hominins Open
Despite decades of research, the field of language evolution lacks a cohesive integrative account capable of explicating linguistic evolution throughout the history of modern humans. We review paleoanthropological and archaeological findin…
View article: Human socio-technical evolution through the lens of an abstracted-wheel experiment: A critical look at a micro-society laboratory study
Human socio-technical evolution through the lens of an abstracted-wheel experiment: A critical look at a micro-society laboratory study Open
Micro-society experimental setups are increasingly used to infer aspects of human behavioural evolution. A key part of human society today is our dependence on, and use of, technology–whether simple (such as a knife) or complex (such as th…
View article: The Geometry and Dynamics of Meaning
The Geometry and Dynamics of Meaning Open
An enigma for human languages is that children learn to understand words in their mother tongue extremely fast. The cognitive sciences have not been able to fully understand the mechanisms behind this highly efficient learning process. In …
View article: Agency at a distance: learning causal connections
Agency at a distance: learning causal connections Open
In a series of papers, we have argued that causal cognition has coevolved with the use of various tools. Animals use tools, but only as extensions of their own bodies, while humans use tools that act at a distance in space and time. This m…
View article: Natural Concepts and the Economics of Cognition and Communication
Natural Concepts and the Economics of Cognition and Communication Open
This article takes a cognitive approach to natural concepts. The aim is to introduce criteria that are evaluated with respect to how they support the cognitive economy of humans when using concepts in reasoning and communicating with them.…
View article: Praxis, demonstration and pantomime: a motion capture investigation of differences in action performances
Praxis, demonstration and pantomime: a motion capture investigation of differences in action performances Open
A commonly held assumption is that demonstration and pantomime differ from ordinary action in that the movements are slowed down and exaggerated to be better understood by intended receivers. This claim has, however, been based on meagre e…
View article: Event structure, force dynamics and verb semantics
Event structure, force dynamics and verb semantics Open
This article presents a cognitive model of event structure that can be used to explain several features of the semantics of verbs. The model consists of four basic components: agent, patient, force vector and result vector. Each component …
View article: Event Segmentation in the Audio Description of Films
Event Segmentation in the Audio Description of Films Open
To make the content of films available to a visually impaired audience, a sighted translator can provide audio description (AD), a verbal description of visual events. To achieve this goal, the audio describer needs to select what to descr…
View article: Similarity-based reasoning in conceptual spaces
Similarity-based reasoning in conceptual spaces Open
Whereas the validity of deductive inferences can be characterized in terms of their logical form, this is not true for all inferences that appear pre-theoretically valid. Nonetheless, philosophers have argued that at least some of those in…
View article: Reasoning with Concepts: A Unifying Framework
Reasoning with Concepts: A Unifying Framework Open
Over the past few decades, cognitive science has identified several forms of reasoning that make essential use of conceptual knowledge. Despite significant theoretical and empirical progress, there is still no unified framework for underst…
View article: Minds on Fire: Cognitive Aspects of Early Firemaking and the Possible Inventors of Firemaking Kits
Minds on Fire: Cognitive Aspects of Early Firemaking and the Possible Inventors of Firemaking Kits Open
Thus far, most researchers have focused on the cognition of fire use, but few have explored the cognition of firemaking. With this contribution we analyse aspects of the two main hunter-gatherer firemaking techniques—the strike-a-light and…
View article: Ambiguity Aversion and Value Uncertainty Generates an Endowment Effect
Ambiguity Aversion and Value Uncertainty Generates an Endowment Effect Open
View article: PSA volume 90 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
PSA volume 90 issue 1 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: Teaching as evolutionary precursor to language
Teaching as evolutionary precursor to language Open
The central thesis of this article is that the evolution of teaching is one of the main factors that lead to increasingly complex communicative systems in the hominin species. Following earlier analyses of the evolution of teaching, the fo…
View article: Reasoning with Expectations About Causal Relations
Reasoning with Expectations About Causal Relations Open
Reasoning is not just following logical rules, but a large part of human reasoning depends on our expectations about the world. To some extent, non-monotonic logic has been developed to account for the role of expectations. In this article…
View article: PSA volume 89 issue 5 Cover and Front matter
PSA volume 89 issue 5 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Front matter
PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: Motion iconicity in prosody
Motion iconicity in prosody Open
Evidence suggests that human non-verbal speech may be rich in iconicity. Here, we report results from two experiments aimed at testing whether perception of increasing and declining f 0 can be iconically mapped onto motion events. We prese…
View article: Analogy as a search procedure: a dimensional view
Analogy as a search procedure: a dimensional view Open
In this paper, we outline a comprehensive approach to composed analogies based on the theory of conceptual spaces. Our algorithmic model understands analogy as a search procedure and builds upon the idea that analogical similarity depends …
View article: PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Front matter
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: PSA volume 89 issue 2 Cover and Front matter
PSA volume 89 issue 2 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: Conceptual Spaces and the Strength of Similarity-based Arguments *
Conceptual Spaces and the Strength of Similarity-based Arguments * Open
View article: PSA volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
PSA volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Front matter Open
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