Cognitive gadgets are distinctively human cognitive mechanisms–such as imitation, mind
reading, and language–that have been shaped by cultural rather than genetic evolution …

Developmental psychologists have long-established the importance of socio-cognitive
abilities in human intelligence. These abilities enable us to enter, participate and benefit …

Episodic memories are experienced as belonging to a self that persists in time. We review
evidence concerning the nature of human episodic memory and of the sense of self and how …

Heyes's book is an important contribution that rightly integrates cognitive development and
cultural evolution. However, understanding the cultural evolution of cognitive gadgets …

Recent research has revealed that during continuous perception of movies or stories,
humans display cortical activity patterns that reveal hierarchical segmentation of event …

In this paper we present Ontologenius, a semantic knowledge storage and reasoning
framework for autonomous robots. More than a classic ontology software to query a …

Attempted answers are given to (a) whether nonhuman great apes (apes) also have evolved
imitation (answer: no);(b) whether humans can transmit imitation as a gadget to apes …

One of the more radical transhumanist proposals for future human being envisions the
uploading of our minds to a digital substrate, trading our dependence on frail, degenerating …

A central component of the human self is the narrative history of shared interactions with
others, which provides the foundation for social relations that develop over extended time …

The computational richness and complexity of recurrent neural networks is well known, and
has yet to be fully exploited and understood. It is interesting that in this context, one of the …