Language serves as a cornerstone for human cognition, yet much about its evolution
remains puzzling. Recent research on this question parallels Darwin's attempt to explain …

This year is the 50th anniversary of Tinbergen's (1963) article 'On aims and methods of
ethology', where he first outlined the four 'major problems of biology'. The classification of the …

Cross-culturele psychologie is de studie van de relaties tussen menselijk gedrag en de
culturele context. In dit handboek komen alle vormen van gedrag aan bod, de belangrijkste …

The evolution of the faculty of language largely remains an enigma. In this essay, we ask
why. Language's evolutionary analysis is complicated because it has no equivalent in any …

Musicality can be defined as a natural, spontaneously developing trait based on and
constrained by biology and cognition. Music, by contrast, can be defined as a social and …

Vocal learners such as humans and songbirds can learn to produce elaborate patterns of
structurally organized vocalizations, whereas many other vertebrates such as non-human …

Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers
a battery of methods that can be used to interpret human behaviour. But the legitimacy of this …

Vocal imitation in human infants and in some orders of birds relies on auditory-guided motor
learning during a sensitive period of development. It proceeds from'babbling'(in humans) …

Unlike our primate cousins, many species of bird share with humans a capacity for vocal
learning, a crucial factor in speech acquisition. There are striking behavioural, neural and …

Simple Heuristics in a Social World invites readers to discover the simple heuristics that
people use to navigate the complexities and surprises of environments populated with …