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The Cognitive Foundations of Teaching
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT The propensity to teach is vital to human cultural evolution and to our ecological dominance of the planet, but its cognitive foundations remain poorly understood. Traditional explanations argue that teaching hinges on particular cognitive pre‐requisites, such as Theory of Mind.
Matthew Lomas +4 more
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Limits, Limitations, and Necessity in Margaret Macdonald
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 717-735, June 2026.ABSTRACT I offer a contribution to recent work on Margaret Macdonald (1903–1956), a prolific though largely unknown figure in the history of analytic philosophy who applied Wittgensteinian insights to a broad range of issues. Here I examine the development of Macdonald's views with respect to idealism and conventionalism, through the application of a ...
Oliver Thomas Spinney
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Newborn Infants Selectively Attend to Points That Refer to Objects
Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT Recognizing that certain acts are communicative is a key requirement of the development of communicative skills. Newborn infants have been shown to selectively respond to certain ostensive cues, including mutual gaze and infant directed speech, supporting theories of the evolution of ostensive‐inferential communication. That said, no study has
Alessandra Geraci +4 more
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DECEPTIVE SANCTITY: The Geopolitics of Shrines and Concealed Antiquities in Afghanistan
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 82-106, February 2026.ABSTRACT This article explores a widely circulated legend in Afghanistan in which foreigners are believed to create shrines to conceal buried antiquities. It represents one of several narratives in which locals express mistrust of foreign motivations and geopolitical deception.
SHAMIM HOMAYUN
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Two Gaps in Studying High‐Fidelity Imitation Across Diverse Childhood Ecologies
Child Development Perspectives, Volume 19, Issue 4, Page 189-197, December 2025.ABSTRACT Recent empirical investigations have concentrated primarily on studying imitation as a social tool that satisfies social motivations, while other potential reasons for and forms of imitation have attracted less attention. These investigations have also focused on studying the role of pedagogy in imitative learning and set up most experiments ...
Frankie T. K. Fong, Daniel B. M. Haun
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Metaphor and Metaphilosophy: Wittgenstein, MacDonald, and Conceptual Metaphor Theory
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 1038-1053, September 2025.Abstract The discipline of philosophy has been critiqued from both within and outside itself. One brand of external critique is associated with Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), the view that human cognition is partially structured by pervasive and automatic mappings between conceptual domains.
Cameron C. Yetman
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More than visual: The apprenticeship of skilled visions
Ethos, Volume 53, Issue 1, March 2025.Abstract Skilled vision is more‐than‐visual because the enskilment of vision happens in intersensorial contexts and because it pertains to the broader formation of aesthetic and ethical sensibilities. Sensory and social apprenticeship coexist in practice.
Cristina Grasseni
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Theoria, Volume 90, Issue 6, Page 643-651, December 2024.Abstract In practice, the inquiry into whether Socrates/William Tell/Robin Hood really existed hinges on the origin of the causal sequence leading up to the present use of the name employed for the personage in question, even though the occurrence of a Kripkean ‘baptism’ is not a logical consequence of most assertions employing that name, but only an ...
D. Goldstick
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Journal of Comparative Neurology, Volume 532, Issue 7, July 2024.Sagittal section of adult mouse brain showing selective layer2 expression of gene Lypd1 at the insular (Ins) and postrhinal (PoRh) cortex, representing rostrolateral and caudal parts of the mesocortical ring, with negative surrounding isocortical and allocortical areas.
Luis Puelles +2 more
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Theta power relates to infant object encoding in naturalistic mother‐infant interactions
Child Development, Volume 95, Issue 2, Page 530-543, March/April 2024.Abstract This study investigates infants' neural and behavioral responses to maternal ostensive signals during naturalistic mother‐infant interactions and their effects on object encoding. Mothers familiarized their 9‐ to 10‐month‐olds (N = 35, 17 females, mainly White, data collection: 2018–2019) with objects with or without mutual gaze, infant ...
Christine Michel +2 more
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