Classical (Bayesian) probability (CP) theory has led to an influential research tradition for
modeling cognitive processes. Cognitive scientists have been trained to work with CP …

People can time travel cognitively because they can remember events having occurred at
particular times in the past (episodic memory) and because they can anticipate new events …

A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in
the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness. What marked the evolutionary transition …

Cognition presents evolutionary research with one of its greatest challenges. Cognitive
evolution has been explained at the proximate level by shifts in absolute and relative brain …

Directed attention plays an important role in human information processing; its fatigue, in
turn, has far-reaching consequences. Attention Restoration Theory provides an analysis of …

Soon after Charles Darwin formulated his theory of evolution, primate cognition became a
major area of research. In this book, Michael Tomasello and Josep Call assess the current …

During the first two years of human life a common neural substrate (roughly Broca's area)
underlies the hierarchical organization of elements in the development of speech as well as …

How language evolved has been called" the hardest problem in science." In Adam's
Tongue, Derek Bickerton—long a leading authority in this field—shows how and why …

Now more than ever animal studies have the potential to test hypotheses regarding how
cognition evolves. Comparative psychologists have developed new techniques to probe the …

Can the output of human cognition be predicted from the assumption that it is an optimal
response to the information-processing demands of the environment? A methodology called …