Abstract English is the dominant language in the study of human cognition and behavior: the
individuals studied by cognitive scientists, as well as most of the scientists themselves, are …

Background Cross-linguistic information about performance in neuropsychological verbal
tests is extremely scarce. It has been suggested that verbal fluency test using animal fluency …

Behavioral genetics and cultural evolution have both revolutionized our understanding of
human behavior–largely independent of each other. Here, we reconcile these two fields …

As proposed for the emergence of modern languages, we argue that modern uses of
languages (pragmatics) also evolved gradually in our species under the effects of human …

We propose that human self-domestication favored the emergence of a less aggressive
phenotype in our species, more precisely phenotype prone to replace (reactive) physical …

We demonstrate how two linguistic phenomena, figurative language (implicating cross-
modality) and derogatory language (implicating aggression), both demand a precise degree …

A fascinating examination of how we are both played by language and made by language:
the science underlying the bugs and features of humankind's greatest invention. Language …

Science strives towards a credible and comprehensive understanding of the world around
us. Across disciplines within the social and behavioural sciences (and beyond), limitations in …

Many controversies in language evolution research derive from the fact that language is
itself a natural language word, which makes the underlying concept fuzzy and cumbersome …

Although previous research has shown that there exist individual and cross-linguistic
differences in planning strategies during language production, little is known about how …