A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11926-021-01021-x

Abstract Previous research has shown that the more individuals view observable entities as animate, those are associated with having psychological and physiological experiences. This study examined relationship between children's animistic anthropomorphic reasoning for concepts of unobservable scientific (i.e., germ) religious God) entities. further explored how conceptions vary according to so...

Spatial cognition is a cognitive ability that arose relatively early in animal evolution. It is therefore very well suited for studying the evolution from stereotyped to cognitive behavior and the general mechanisms underlying cognitive abilities. In this paper, I will present a de nition of cognition in terms of the complexity of behavior it subserves. This approach allows to ask for the mecha...