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The cultural origins of human cognition
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This article is published in American Journal of Human Biology.The article was published on 2001-05-01. It has received 2276 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Motor cognition & Social cognition.read more
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What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
TL;DR: Good computer and video games like System Shock 2, Deus Ex, Pikmin, Rise of Nations, Neverwinter Nights, and Xenosaga: Episode 1 are learning machines as mentioned in this paper.
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Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition
TL;DR: It is argued and present evidence that great apes understand the basics of intentional action, but they still do not participate in activities involving joint intentions and attention (shared intentionality), and children's skills of shared intentionality develop gradually during the first 14 months of life.
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The functional architecture of human empathy
Jean Decety,Philip L. Jackson +1 more
TL;DR: A model of empathy that involves parallel and distributed processing in a number of dissociable computational mechanisms is proposed and may be used to make specific predictions about the various empathy deficits that can be encountered in different forms of social and neurological disorders.
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The Social Brain: Neural Basis of Social Knowledge
TL;DR: A broad survey of the key abilities, processes, and ways in which to relate these to data from cognitive neuroscience is provided.
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The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science
TL;DR: This target article summarizes decades of cross-linguistic work by typologists and descriptive linguists, showing just how few and unprofound the universal characteristics of language are, once the authors honestly confront the diversity offered to us by the world's 6,000 to 8,000 languages.
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What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
TL;DR: Good computer and video games like System Shock 2, Deus Ex, Pikmin, Rise of Nations, Neverwinter Nights, and Xenosaga: Episode 1 are learning machines as mentioned in this paper.
Journal ArticleDOI
Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition
TL;DR: It is argued and present evidence that great apes understand the basics of intentional action, but they still do not participate in activities involving joint intentions and attention (shared intentionality), and children's skills of shared intentionality develop gradually during the first 14 months of life.
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The functional architecture of human empathy
Jean Decety,Philip L. Jackson +1 more
TL;DR: A model of empathy that involves parallel and distributed processing in a number of dissociable computational mechanisms is proposed and may be used to make specific predictions about the various empathy deficits that can be encountered in different forms of social and neurological disorders.
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The Social Brain: Neural Basis of Social Knowledge
TL;DR: A broad survey of the key abilities, processes, and ways in which to relate these to data from cognitive neuroscience is provided.
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The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science
TL;DR: This target article summarizes decades of cross-linguistic work by typologists and descriptive linguists, showing just how few and unprofound the universal characteristics of language are, once the authors honestly confront the diversity offered to us by the world's 6,000 to 8,000 languages.