How culture shapes social cognition deficits in mental disorders: A review

How Communication Shapes Culture

How cognition shapes cognitive evolution

The tools we use shape the way we construct our world. When cognitive scientists began to model the evolution of cognition, one tool they found readily available was the genetic algorithm--a software system for artificially evolving solutions to problems that were specified by an explicit fitness function [1]. This fixed fitness function took a potential solution as input, and returned the good...

The Evolution of Social Cognition Development in Children whit Autism Spectrum and ADHD Disorders: A Systematic Review Study

Autism spectrum and attention-deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD) disorders are associated with widespread social cognitive impairments that affect their social relationships. In this regard, the present review study was conducted to investigate the development of social cognition in children with autism spectrum and ADHD disorders. In this systematic meta-analysis study, published articles on the dev...

Culture shapes the evolution of cognition.

A central debate in cognitive science concerns the nativist hypothesis, the proposal that universal features of behavior reflect a biologically determined cognitive substrate: For example, linguistic nativism proposes a domain-specific faculty of language that strongly constrains which languages can be learned. An evolutionary stance appears to provide support for linguistic nativism, because c...

O17: Social Cognition in Patients with Anxiety Disorders

Social cognition is defined as the capacity to generate, perceive and interpret and responses to the dispositions, intentions and behaviors of other people. It includes different specific cognitive processes that underlie social interactions. Four domains of social cognition are named Theory of Mind (also known as mentalizing), emotion recognition, social perception and attributional style. Anx...