This article presents a unifying theory of the embodied, situated human brain called the
Hierarchically Mechanistic Mind (HMM). The HMM describes the brain as a complex …

We introduce comparative connectomics, the quantitative study of cross-species
commonalities and variations in brain network topology that aims to discover general …

Unlike brain regions that respond selectively to specific kinds of information content, a
number of frontal and parietal regions are thought to be domain-and process-general: that …

INTRODUCTION Vocal learning, the ability to imitate sounds, is a trait that has undergone
convergent evolution in several lineages of birds and mammals, including song-learning …

Can we better understand modern consumer behavior by examining its links to our ancestral
past? We consider the underlying motives for consumption and choice from an evolutionary …

The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an
evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and …

The purpose of this review was to integrate leading paradigms in psychology and
neuroscience with a theory of the embodied, situated human brain, called the Hierarchically …

Humans have long pondered the nature of their mind/brain and, particularly why its
capacities for reasoning, communication and abstract thought are far superior to other …

A debate surrounding modularity—the notion that the mind may be exclusively composed of
distinct systems or modules—has held philosophers and psychologists captive for nearly 40 …

Cognitive neuroscience seeks to discover how cognitive functions are implemented in
neural circuits. Studies of plasticity in blindness suggest that this mind–brain mapping is …