Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Foundation Theory has been criticized on many fronts, mainly account of its lack evidence concerning the genetic and neurological bases evolved moral intuitions that theory posits. Despite fact is probably most promising framework from which to integrate different lines interdisciplinary research deal with evolutionary foundations psychology, i) it also shows a critical u...

The finding that human infants and many other animal species are sensitive to numerical quantity has been widely interpreted as evidence for evolved, biologically determined numerical capacities across unrelated species, thereby supporting a 'nativist' stance on the origin of number sense. Here, we tackle this issue within the 'emergentist' perspective provided by artificial neural network mode...

One can understand the importance of language with its relation to mental activities such as memory and thinking. Language, a crucial human ability, has long attracted attention various theorists philosophers. by nature, interacts many biological, cultural psychological factors. This article drawn general framework bringing together views from disciplines linguistics, psychology, anthropology, ...

Alguns estudos já sugeriram (cf. CAMAZINE et al., 2001; CAPRA, 2007; FRANK, CORBALLIS, 2011; DI SCIULLO, ELLIS & LARSEN-FREEMAN, 2009; SINHA, TURNER, 2008) que as línguas naturais, enquanto sistemas adaptativos complexos de caráter dissipativo, estão inevitavelmente sujeitas à retroalimentação positiva, o causa um desequilíbrio temporário no sistema, esse se manifesta na variação linguístic...

In this chapter, we show that from a minimal neural kit for vocal repli-cation, a shared combinatorial speech code with structural regularities and diversity spontaneously self-organizes in a population of agents. This allows to understand that the evolutionary step from vocal replication systems to modern human speech systems might have been rather small. 1 Speech: a structured prerequisite fo...