Behavioral and Brain Sciences

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  1. Niki Pfeifer, Systematic Rationality Norms Provide Research Roadmaps and Clarity.
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  2. Krist Vaesen, The Cognitive Bases of Human Tool Use.
    This article has two goals. First, it synthesizes and critically assesses current scientific knowledge about the cognitive bases of human tool use. Second, it shows how the cognitive traits reviewed help to explain why technological accumulation evolved so markedly in humans, and so modestly in apes.
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  3. Edoardo Zamuner & Julian Kiverstein, “Could Embodied Simulation Be a By-Product of Emotion Perception?”.
    The SIMS model claims that it is by means of an embodied simulation that we determine the meaning of an observed smile. This suggests that crucial interpretative work is done in the mapping that takes us from a perceived smile to the activation of one's own facial musculature. How is this mapping achieved? Might it depend upon a prior interpretation arrived at on the basis of perceptual and contextual information?
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