Cecilia Heyes
@CeliaHeyes
Theoretical psychologist studying the evolution of human cognition. Cognitive Gadgets https://t.co/yJgtc5J63C
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http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ascch/ 03-04-2011 16:19:54
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Interview with Cecilia Heyes about her book Cognitive Gadgets. Discusses various 'cognitive gadgets' such as literacy and imitation, which Heyes argues are not biologically programmed, but culturally evolved feats of cognition.
The Nature & Nurture Podcast
Cecilia Heyes
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Robin Hanson Cecilia Heyes is a great experimentalist & theorist. Her work on the development of imitation - basically disproving 'mirror neurons' - was both fantastic (and against the crowd at the time). Deeply influenced me in grad school for the better...
We're looking for a new PhD student to come and work with us on the topics of cognitive control and reinforcement learning! Deadline April 26th. For more information, please see users.ugent.be/~sbraem/. Ghent Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
This paper has it all: behavioral data, computational modeling, and quite a lot of discussion of underlying cognitive mechanisms. This paper is particularly special to me because it's my lab manager Becky's (Becky Beaton) very first publication!
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Learning to imitate for cultural inheritance with a lean starter kit - from some very smart people at Google DeepMind nature.com/articles/s4146… ESLR Society
Huge congratulations to Senior Lecturer Daniel Yon, who has been announced as this year’s winner of the Experimental Psychology Society Prize! The annual award recognises distinguished, independent & original contributions to experimental psychology: bit.ly/3QMiNhN