The term “minimal phenomenal selfhood”(MPS) describes the basic, pre-reflective
experience of being a self (Blanke and Metzinger,). Theoretical accounts of the minimal self …

Popular movies grab and hold our attention. One reason for this is that storytelling is
culturally important to us, but another is that general narrative formulae have been honed …

Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

This paper argues for the need to recognize a new order of syntactic phenomena, and for a
theory of syntax capable of addressing it. Dialogic syntax encompasses the linguistic …

While usage-based approaches to language development enjoy considerable support from
computational studies, there have been few attempts to answer a key computational …

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Could a machine think? Could the mind itself be a thinking machine? The computer
revolution transformed discussion of these questions, offering our best prospects yet for …

A game designer considers the experience of play, why games have rules, and the
relationship of play and narrative. The impulse toward play is very ancient, not only pre …

A cognitive science perspective on scientific development, drawing on philosophy,
psychology, neuroscience, and computational modeling. Many disciplines, including …

Language plays a pivotal role in the evolution of human culture, yet the evolution of the
capacity for language—uniquely within the hominin lineage—remains little understood …