Part of human cortex is specialized for cultural domains such as reading and arithmetic,
whose invention is too recent to have influenced the evolution of our species …

Reading is an important but phylogenetically new skill. While neuroimaging studies have
identified brain regions used in reading, it is unclear to what extent these regions become …

A theory of three-way decision concerns the art, science, and practice of thinking, problem
solving, and information processing in threes. It explores the effective uses of triads of three …

A proposal for a fully post-phrenological neuroscience that details the evolutionary roots of
functional diversity in brain regions and networks. The computer analogy of the mind has …

" Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling
narrative. A revelatory work."--Oliver Sacks, MD The act of reading is so easily taken for …

Abstract Zipf's Law of Abbreviation–the idea that more frequent symbols in a code are
simpler than less frequent ones–has been shown to hold at the level of words in many …

An emerging class of theories concerning the functional structure of the brain takes the
reuse of neural circuitry for various cognitive purposes to be a central organizational …

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 …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

 Les Neurones de la lecture s' ouvre sur une énigme: comment notre cerveau de primate
apprend-il à lire? Comment cette invention culturelle, trop récente pour avoir influencé notre …