Memetics and the Parallel Architecture [PDF]
Topics in Cognitive ScienceThe evolution of human communication and culture is among the most significant—and challenging—questions we face in attempting to understand the evolution of our species.
Ronald Planer
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An extra‐memetic empirical methodology to accompany theoretical memetics [PDF]
International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 2012 Abstract\ud \ud Purpose: The paper describes the difficulties encountered by researchers who are looking to operationalise theoretical memetics and provides a methodological avenue for studies that can test meme theory.\ud \ud Design/Methodology/Approach: The application of evolutionary theory to organisations is reviewed by critically reflecting on ...
Jameson Gill
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Teaching and communicating the Middle Ages through memetics [PDF]
Hybrid. Revue des arts et médiations humainesThe article aims to offer the contribution of a medievalist to an interdisciplinary reflection on memetics. First, memes will be identified as meta-sources, i.e. configurations that make use of new digital practices and languages. Focusing on those memes
Marina Gazzini
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Memetics and neural models of conspiracy theories [PDF]
Patterns (N Y), 2015 Summary Memetics has so far been developing in social sciences, but to fully understand memetic processes it should be linked to neuroscience models of learning, encoding, and retrieval of memories in the brain.
Wlodzislaw Duch
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Memetics of Deception: Spreading Local Meme Hoaxes during COVID-19 1st Year
Future Internet, 2021 The central thesis of this paper is that memetic practices can be crucial to understanding deception at present when hoaxes have increased globally due to COVID-19.
Candelaria Sánchez-Olmos +2 more
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The Serotonin 2B (5-HT2B) Receptor: A Narrative Review of Preclinical and Clinical Evidence on the Safety Considerations and Therapeutic Potential for the Treatment of Depression. [PDF]
Clin Pharmacol TherMajor depressive disorder (MDD) and treatment‐resistant depression (TRD) remain leading causes of disability, providing the impetus for receptor‐level treatment strategies beyond monoamine reuptake. The serotonin 5‐HT2B receptor (5‐HT2BR) is uniquely positioned at the interface of central‐antidepressant mechanisms and peripheral cardiac risks.
Le GH +8 more
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Why Did Memetics Fail? Comparative Case Study1 [PDF]
Perspectives in Science, 2020 Although the theory of memetics appeared highly promising at the beginning, it is no longer considered a scientific theory among contemporary evolutionary scholars.
Radim Chvaja
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Harmonia: Journal of Arts Research and EducationThis article discusses the existence of aesthetics in traditional batik colors in Tuban, East Java, Indonesia, which is reflected in the appreciation of the deep values in the activity of making cloth.
Fajar Ciptandi, Arini Arumsari
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“The Two Brothers”: Reconciling Perceptual-Cognitive and Statistical Models of Musical Evolution [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 While the “units, events and dynamics” of memetic evolution have been abstractly theorized (Lynch, 1998), they have not been applied systematically to real corpora in music.
Steven Jan
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Song and dance: a memetic angle on the evolution of musicality and music via case studies of a musemeplex in Saint-Saëns and ABBA [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Applying the theory of memetics to music offers the prospect of reconciling general Darwinian principles with the style and structure of music. The nature of the units of cultural evolution in music—memes or, more specifically, musemes—can potentially ...
Steven Jan
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