Replies to comments by A. M. Glenberg (see record 2015-22897-006) on the author's original article (see record 2015-22897-004) on the embodied cognition debate. The core issue at stake in the debate is whether the format of thought is amodal or modality-specific. In his paper, Glenberg argues that "embodied systems do just fine accounting for perception, action, concrete cognition, and abstract...

transaction cost economics (tce), as a subset of new institutional economics (nie), is the combination of economics, organization and law. noble prize in 2009 was dedicated to oliver williamson who was the most popular face in the economics as tce main contributor. in tce, the main issues on the one hand is how institutions follow characteristics of transactions, on the other hand, the making o...

The position that the structure of a language has an impact on the cognition of its speakers is a venerable, if controversial, one in both linguistics and anthropology (see Gumperz and Levinson 1996 and Lucy 1992 for recent overviews). Over the last 60 years, a wide range of theories about the relationship between language and thought have been developed and disputed. The theories that posit so...

Barsalou’s (1999, 2003) perceptual symbol systems hypothesis describes how semantic knowledge is grounded in sensorimotor experience. According to the theory, knowledge is acquired through sensorimotor simulations. This challenges the classical view supported by the disembodied cognition hypothesis, which generally favours an abstract and symbolic system. We propose a unified perspective, in wh...

The hypothesis that the enlarged brain size of the primates was selected for by social, rather than purely ecological, factors has been strongly influential in studies of primate cognition and behaviour over the past two decades. However, the Machiavellian intelligence hypothesis, also known as the social brain hypothesis, tends to emphasize certain traits and behaviours, like exploitation and ...

The social intelligence hypothesis suggests that living in large social networks was the primary selective pressure for the evolution of complex cognition in primates. This hypothesis is supported by comparative studies demonstrating a positive relationship between social group size and relative brain size across primates. However, the relationship between brain size and cognition remains equiv...

In the recent twenty-year retrospective issue of Animal Behavior and Cognition, Povinelli Henley (2020) argue that a host comparative studies into “complex cognition” suffer, fatally, from theoretical confusion. To rectify problem, they following challenge: alongside specifications higher-order capacity to be tested, provide hypotheses mechanism(s) necessary implement it. They spearhead this ef...