Giorgio Bertini
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Cognitive Culture – Theoretical and Empirical insights into Social Learning Strategies
Research into social learning (learning from others) has expanded significantly in recent years, not least because of productive interactions between theoretical and empirical approaches. This has been coupled with a new emphasis on learning strategies, which places social learning within … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Cognitive culture, Culture, Social cognition, Social learning, Strategy
Tagged cognition, Cognitive culture, culture, social cognition, social learning, strategy
Brain-to-brain Coupling – A mechanism for Creating and Sharing a Social World
Cognition materializes in an interpersonal space. The emergence of complex behaviors requires the coordination of actions among individuals according to a shared set of rules. Despite the central role of other individuals in shaping one’s mind, most cognitive studies focus … Continue reading
Posted in Brain, Cognition, Social learning, Social network, Social sharing, Social world
Tagged brain, cognition, social learning, Social network, social sharing, Social world
Culture shapes the Evolution of Cognition
A central debate in cognitive science concerns the nativist hypothesis, the proposal that universal features of behavior reflect a biologically determined cognitive substrate: For example, linguistic nativism proposes a domain-specific faculty of language that strongly constrains which languages can be … Continue reading
Culture and the Self – Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation
People in different cultures have strikingly different construals of the self, of others, and of the interdependence of the two. These construals can influence, and in many cases determine, the very nature of individual experience, including cognition, emotion, and motivation. … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Cultural cognition, Cultural differences, Cultural evolution, Culture, Emotions, Self
Tagged cognition, cultural cognition, cultural differences, cultural evolution, culture, emotion, Self
Culture in Mind: Toward a Sociology of Culture and Cognition
What is thought and how does one come to study and understand it? How does the mind work? Does cognitive science explain all the mysteries of the brain? This collection of fourteen original essays from some of the top sociologists … Continue reading
Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in everyday life
Most previous research on human cognition has focused on problem-solving and has confined its investigations to the laboratory. As a result, it has been difficult to account for complex mental processes and their place in culture and history. In this … Continue reading
Posted in Activity theory, Cognition, Culture, Mathematics, Praxis, Situated
Tagged cognition, culture, mathematics, praxis, situated
The Origin of Cultural Differences in Cognition
A large body of research documents cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. Westerners tend to be more analytic and East Asians tend to be more holistic. These findings have often been explained as being due to corresponding differences in … Continue reading
Language, Culture, Cognition – How Do They Intersect?
This chapter approaches the question of how languages shape cognition in terms of language use and examines differences in the accessibility of specific linguistic categories across different languages. Here we take a position espoused by Kay. He points out that … Continue reading
The effect of Culture on Perception and Cognition: A conceptual framework
Researchers are increasingly recognizing the role of culture as a source of variation in many phenomena of central importance to consumer research. This review addresses a gap in cross-cultural consumer behavior literature by providing a review and conceptual analysis of the effects … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Culture, Perception
Tagged cognition, culture, perception
Cultural, Cognition and Human Action
To understand culture and cultural evolution we must abandon the atomized and anonymous social environment of neoclassical economics. Culture is a product and a cause of the socialized nature of human action. Examination of the phylogenetic and ontogenetic neural mechanisms … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Cultural evolution, Culture, Humans
Tagged cognition, cultural evolution, culture, humans
