The Evolution of Human Cognition

Lecture 2

Lecture 2 2023
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Recommended reading:

Social learning:

Heyes, C. (2012). What’s social about social learning? Journal of Comparative Psychology126(2), 193–202. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025180

Emery, N. J., Clayton, N. S., & Frith, C. D. (2007). Social intelligence: From brain to culture. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences362(1480), 485–488. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2006.2022

Theory of Mind:

Chapter Theory of Mind In: Shettleworth, S. J. (2009). Cognition, evolution, and behavior. Oxford university press.

Useful for essay question 2
Kosinski, M. (2023). Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models (arXiv:2302.02083). arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083

In case of interest - article about domestication and evolution of social skills:

Hare, B., & Tomasello, M. (2005). Human-like social skills in dogs? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(9), 439–444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2005.07.003

Domain general cognition

Burkart, J. M., Schubiger, M. N., & Schaik, C. P. van. (2017). The evolution of general intelligence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, e195. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X16000959