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Language and Episodic Sharing
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Michael C. Corballis
Published: 09 December 2011
... language planning social cognition It has become commonplace in cognitive science to distinguish between declarative and nondeclarative memory (e.g., Squire 1992 , 2004 ). Unlike non-declarative memory, declarative memory is accessible to consciousness, and specifically to language—it is memory...
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Do We (or Our Brains) Actively Represent or Enactively Engage with the World?
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Shaun Gallagher
Published: 25 March 2016
...This chapter reviews scientific discussions of several problems (free will, social cognition, perception) that reflect a representational approach to cognitive science, and contrasts them with embodied, enactive approaches. It asks whether predictive coding models can adjudicate between...
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The Significance and Meaning of Others
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Shaun Gallagher
Published: 14 April 2017
...I argue that the distinction between significance and meaning made in debates about the nature of interpretation in hermeneutics is relevant to contemporary discussions of social cognition. In this chapter, I review the debates about interpretation focusing...
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Seeing Our World
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Michael Madary
Published: 28 February 2017
... of vision Color Smith J Stein E Thompson E AF thesis AF content Familiarity with a visual scene Norms of tool use Main Argument Thought experiment Factual properties Perspectival visual experience is Prinz J Social cognition Belief Casler K Attention visual Autism Cross cultural...
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Early Social Cognition: How Psychological Mechanisms Can Inform Models of Decision Making
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Felix Warneken and Alexandra G. Rosati
Published: 26 October 2012
... instantiation of these processes. social behavior social cognition social decision making expected utility theory intention kin selection social bonds intention reading ultimatum game altruism equity fairness prisoner’s dilemma reciprocity social preferences trust game children cultural...
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Footholds and Handholds: Scaffolding Cognition and Career
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Barbara Horberg Wimsatt
Published: 01 November 2013
... thesis Generative entrenchment Greeno J G Hutchins Ed Learning Norman D A Promotional scaffolding Robbins P Sawyer R K Situated cognition studies of Social cognition Sterelny K Technology Tomasello M Vygotsky Lev S Warwick A Wilson Robert A Expertise acquisition Footholds Generative...
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Infants Attribute Mental States to Nonhuman Agents
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Yuyan Luo and You-jung Choi
Published: 23 August 2013
... Leslie A M Shimizu Y A Causal learning about agents Learning Statistical learning Analogy learning by Associative learning Imitation Infant social cognition Mental state attribution Intentionality Recent research shows that from an early age, infants appear to attribute mental states...
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Naive Scientists
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Lasana T. Harris
Published: 28 April 2017
...The fifth chapter presents a toy model for the development of social cognition based on psychology experiments that explore this ability in babies, infants and children. It explores when infants dissociate people from objects and other non-human agents, reviewing classical models in developmental...
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Animal Thinking: Contemporary Issues in Comparative Cognition
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Randolf Menzel (ed.) and Julia Fischer (ed.)
Published online: 19 May 2016
Published in print: 09 December 2011
... navigation, decision making, social cognition, and communication and suggests directions for future research. The book promotes a research program that seeks to understand animals’ cognitive abilities and behavioral routines as individuals and as members of social groups....
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Published online: 21 September 2017
Published in print: 28 April 2017
...Why do people engage in pro and anti-social behaviour? Invisible Mind takes an interdisciplinary approach to address this question, among others, by focussing on the spontaneous psychological ability social cognition , and its inherent flexibility. People get inside the minds—infer...
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Empathy versus Personal Distress: Recent Evidence from Social Neuroscience
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Jean Decety and Claus Lamm
Published: 20 March 2009
... looks at the neural circuits responsible for a person’s ability to perceive the pain of others in the context of the shared-representation theory of social cognition. In addition, it discusses perspective taking and the ability to differentiate the self from the other. Batson C D Decety J de Waal F B...
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The Social Perception of Helping and Hindering
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Valerie A. Kuhlmeier
Published: 23 August 2013
... A Dispositions Kuhlmeier V A Dunfield K A Csibra G Gergely G Helping and hindering infant detection of Rationality principles Sommerville J Teleological stance Hamlin J K Blythe P W Dennett D C Ullman T D Psychopathy and encoding of helping and hindering agents Infant social cognition Prosocial...
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Neither Individualistic nor Interactionist
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Ezequiel Di Paolo and Hanne De Jaegher
Published: 14 April 2017
... constitution Social agency Social cognition Social interaction De Jaegher Hanne Di Paolo Ezequiel World Sense making Merleau Ponty Maurice Reddy Vasudevi Alterity Empathy Intercorporeity intercorporeality intercorporéité Prereflective intercorporeality Touch physical Gallagher Shaun Clark...
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Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Cognition
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Thomas Bugnyar and others
Published: 26 October 2012
... with algorithmic-level processes remains, however, to be resolved. Difficulties lie in how cognitive and social psychologists approach the study of cognition as well as in how existing data are used to interpret human (and nonhuman) decision making. cultural evolution culture Inuit social cognition social...
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Implications of Action-Oriented Paradigm Shifts in Cognitive Science
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Peter F. Dominey and others
Published: 25 March 2016
... and addresses the status of the pragmatic turn. Its potential influence on science and the study of cognition are considered (including perception, social cognition, social interaction, sensorimotor entrainment, and language acquisition) and its impact on how neuroscience is studied is also investigated...
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How Intelligent Is Machiavellian Behavior?
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Redouan Bshary and others
Published: 09 December 2011
... neocortex physical cognition social brain hypothesis social cognition social complexity social knowledge experience projection individual recognition perspective taking planning recognition theory of mind behavior reading hypothesis field studies importance of predicting behavior baboons...
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Tension
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Lasana T. Harris
Published: 28 April 2017
...The first chapter states that flexible social cognition—having the ability to engage and not engage in mental state inferences with others—perhaps explains why people are capable of pro and anti-social behaviour. It introduces a classical equation for social behaviour, before suggesting an edit...
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Evolution
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Lasana T. Harris
Published: 28 April 2017
...The second chapter introduces the evolutionary perspective on social cognition, emphasizing the prioritorizing of survival and reproduction as basic human motives. It then describes an example of the interaction between genes and environment that directs evolution, before considering...
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Evolution and the Mechanisms of Decision Making
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Peter Hammerstein (ed.) and Jeffrey R. Stevens (ed.)
Published online: 19 May 2016
Published in print: 26 October 2012
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Visual Phenomenology
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Michael Madary
Published online: 21 September 2017
Published in print: 28 February 2017
... for the two-visual systems hypothesis can be re-interpreted in support of (2). The third part of the book turns to general methodological questions (Chapter 8) and the relationship between visual perception and social cognition (Chapter 9). The appendix addresses the ways in which Husserlian phenomenology...