My team recruits a PhD student to work under the supervision of Olivier Morin on the evolution of written communication, within a project jointly led by Olivier Morin, Hugo Mercier, and Marc Allassonn...

Over the last decade, new research has shown how human collectives can develop technologies that no single individual could discover on their own. How…

Phonemes—the basic sound units of language—function as cognitive tools that shape and extend human thinking. This article explores how phonemes are biologically grounded yet culturally variable, play...

An exploration of an Early Medieval English medical text, Bald's Leechbook, from a Cultural Linguistic perspective. An overview of cultural schemas for medical ailments and recipes, including those w...

We examine the use of cognitive technologies in botanical knowledge for medicinal purposes in the Nahua (Aztec) Cruz-Badianus codex. The Mesoamerican cosmovision, especially the association of human ...

Humans understand time in a way no other animal does. This is not because of our evolved biology, however—it is because we have developed a diverse and powerful toolkit of ideas, practices, and artif...

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Vill du bidra till medicinsk forskning av toppkvalitet? Gruppen Mechanisms of Social Behavior vid Karolinska Institutet i Stockholm söker en högt kvalificerad postdoktoral forskare för att ingå i

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Bloodletting—the practice of letting blood out to cure a patient—was for centuries one of the main therapies in the west. We lay out three potential e…

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Metaphor, including its sub-categories pars pro toto and metonymy, plays a crucial role in the formation of the earliest invented scripts in Mesopotamia, Egypt and China, yet it has been understudied...

Ancient Roman “technical memory” is not (as much of the modern specialist literature would have it) a generative technology of association, but a specialized tool for precise serial recall. While the...

Ancient Roman “technical memory” is not (as much of the modern specialist literature would have it) a generative technology of association, but a specialized tool for precise serial recall. While the....

Reporting to the chairs of the Departments of Economics, Government and Quantitative Social Sciences, the Data Scientist working in the Social Science Data and Computation Lab at Dartmouth College ser...

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