Ralph Adolphs: Cal TechLike most other social neuroscience groups, my lab has been using pictures of faces as stimuli for a long time-- we investigate how people look at them, what social judgments they make about them, and how their brains respond to them. But how ecologically valid is this? Recently, we have begun exploring […]

Charles Perreault: UCLA Department of AnthropologyHumans adaptive radiation has been explained by our capacity to socially learn information (culture). Culture is an inheritance system that parallels and interacts with the genetic one. Cultural variation and innovations accumulate in a population throughout time, allowing for complex cultural adaptations to evolve. Since, it is assumed, cultural evolution […]

Federico Rossano: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary AnthropologyIn this talk I address two crucial aspects of gestural communication in non-human primates: how gestures are acquired/developed and how similar is their use when compared to human behavior (in particular with respect to issues such as communicative intentions and recipient design). There is general agreement among researchers […]