Normative cognition – a uniquely human cognitive capacity ’Normative cognition’ is a ’mongrel’ concept covering human cognition of symbolically mediated normative information. Humans have social and cultural cognition of which normative cognition is a subset. Humans can produce, distribute, acquire and implement social norms and values. Normative cognition requires certain cognitive skills such...

Article history: Received 19 March 2016 Accepted 18 August 2016 Available online 1 September 2016 Culture shapes how we interpret behavior, symbols, customs, and more. Its operation is largely implicit, unnoticed until we encounter other cultures. Therefore deep cultural differences should bemost evident in automatic processes for interpreting events, including behavior. In two studies, we comp...

In this paper we discuss the framework for a realistic walkthrough of cultural heritage sites. The framework includes 3D data acquisition, different data processing steps, coarse to fine 3D reconstruction and rendering to generate realistic walkthrough. Digital preservation of cultural heritage sites is an important area of research since the accessibility of state of the art techniques in comp...

Autobiographical remembering is examined as a cultural practice unfolding in the developmental dynamics of the interplay between memory, self and culture. In discussing the results of recent comparative studies in the United States and East Asia, we argue that autobiographical memory and self are interconnected meaning systems constructed in macroand micro-cultural contexts—contexts of collecti...

Cultural theory posits that social groups possess a cultural repertoire or “tool kit” that reflects beliefs, ritual practices, stories and symbols that provide meaning and impetus for resource mobilization. However, little research based on quantitative techniques has been forwarded relative to the relationship between longstanding Black Church cultural components – specifically, scripture, son...

We establish a semantics for building grammars from a modularised specification in which modules are able to delete productions from imported nonterminals. Modules have import lists of nonterminals; some or all of an imported nonterminal’s productions may be suppressed at import time. There are two basic import mechanisms which (a) reference or (b) clone an imported nonterminal’s productions. O...

The article considers the specificity of precedent proper names as universal value-based standards and cultural symbols in texts Russian political advertisement. axiological aspect is at core pragmatic impact made by advertising on target audience. research material involves issued during presidential parliamentary campaigns Russia 1993–2018. author distinguishes between notions ‘standard’ ‘sym...