Modularity in cognition: framing the debate.
- H. Barrett, R. Kurzban
- PsychologyPsychology Review
- 1 July 2006
It is proposed that modularity, cleanly defined, provides a useful framework for directing research and resolving debates about individual cognitive systems and the nature of human evolved cognition.
Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature
- H. Barrett
- Psychology
- 1 March 2006
White-faced capuchin monkeys show triadic awareness in their choice of allies
- S. Perry, H. Barrett, J. Manson
- PsychologyAnimal Behaviour
- 31 January 2004
Adaptations to Predators and Prey
- H. Barrett
- Biology, Psychology
- 18 November 2015
This chapter reviews the many influences predator-prey interactions have had on human psychology including perception, foraging, emotions, learning, inference, and reasoning.
Enzymatic computation and cognitive modularity
- H. Barrett
- Biology
- 1 June 2005
This model shows how specialized, modular processing can occur in an open system, and suggests that skepticism about modularity may largely be due to failure to consider alternatives to the standard model.
Ontogeny of prosocial behavior across diverse societies
- Bailey R. House, J. Silk, S. Laurence
- PsychologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 19 August 2013
The ontogeny of prosocial behavior is examined by studying 326 children 3–14 y of age and 120 adults from six societies, including foragers, herders, horticulturalists, and urban dwellers across the Americas, Oceania, and Africa.
A hierarchical model of the evolution of human brain specializations
- H. Barrett
- Psychology, BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 22 June 2012
A hierarchical model of brain specialization is presented, reviewing evidence for the model from evolutionary developmental biology, genetics, brain mapping, and comparative studies, and Implications for the search for uniquely human traits are discussed, along with ways in which conventional views of modularity in psychology may need to be revised.
Adaptive specializations, social exchange, and the evolution of human intelligence
- L. Cosmides, H. Barrett, J. Tooby
- PsychologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 5 May 2010
Experimental tests are reported that falsify blank-slate theories of human intelligence by demonstrating that deontic rules as a class do not elicit the search for violations, and show that the cheater detection system functions with pinpoint accuracy.
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