This issue of Gerontology includes a response by van Bodegom et al. to Herndon's recent article on the implications of the grandmother hypothesis for studies of aging and cognition. Although this hypothesis will doubtlessly continue to stimulate discussion, we focus here on our contention that human and non-human primate life histories have evolved essential differences and that these should be...

Historically, the development of God concepts in human cognition has been explained anthropomorphically. In other words, for children especially, God is a big, superhuman who lives in the sky. Recent empirical research on the development of these concepts may suggest an alternative hypothesis. In this paper, we review this research and outline the "preparedness hypothesis," which suggests that ...

This paper deals with the architectural aspect of virtual environment design. It builds on precedents from the areas of architectural, urban design and environmental cognition and attempts to suggest an architectural way of thinking about designing the spatial elements of a virtual environment. A taxonomy of the objects and the spatial elements that a VE consists of is presented as the main hyp...

emotion is one of the human soul’s aspects which have a complex relationship with action and cognition. martha craven nussbaum considers emotion as one of the figures of cognition and believes that emotion is the recognition of a person’s very important living aspects which are not under his control. in her view, emotion is based on the subject. this notion proves that emotion is a part of cogn...

Timing is a fundamental and highly conserved mammalian capability, yet the underlying neural mechanisms are widely debated. Ramping activity of single neurons that gradually increase or decrease activity to encode the passage of time has been speculated to predict a behaviorally relevant temporal event. Cue-evoked low-frequency activity has also been implicated in temporal processing. Ramping a...

Based on past findings that attributionally more complex people make less fundamental attribution error, it was hypothesized that they would show less punitiveness and racism. In a study of 102 undergraduates, this hypothesis received robust support. The effect of attributional complexity was significant in 2 different punitiveness measures, a rehabilitation support measure, and 2 different rac...

The science of histology depends on the skilled use of microscopes. Visual cognition in the use of microscopes is sometimes a matter of immediate recognition and very often a matter of extensive exploration and hypothesis testing. In every case, there are fundamental questions about how visual information is used to drive cognition. In an experiment that varied the visual information available ...