We discuss the importance of narrative intelligence (story-awareness, story-telling, historical grounding) in regard to an agent’s transcendence of its immediate local temporal context to create a broad temporal horizon in which the experience and future of the agent can be accounted for, together with the advantage that narrative provides to sociality by making the experience of others availab...

BACKGROUND The superficial resemblance of phylogenetic trees to other branching structures allows searching for macroevolutionary patterns. However, such trees are just statistical inferences of particular historical events. Recent meta-analyses report finding regularities in the branching pattern of phylogenetic trees. But is this supported by evidence, or are such regularities just methodolog...

A large number of different types of artifacts can be seen with regularity in central nervous system surgical specimens. These can be broadly divided into three categories: 1) those that impede or even prevent diagnostic interpretation, 2) those that may be mistaken for bona fide pathological alterations, and 3) extraneous substances introduced into the tissue by physicians (Table 1). Some type...

We aim at identifying the artifacts arising when dealing with 3D video content displayed on portable autostereoscopic displays. We list the artifacts related with the stages of 3D video delivery dataflow they appear at i.e. content creation, conversion to the desired format, coding/decoding, transmission, and visualization on 3D display. Eventually, we analyze which artifacts are more pronounce...

Cultural evolutionary models have identified a range of conditions under which social learning (copying others) is predicted to be adaptive relative to asocial learning (learning on one's own), particularly in humans where socially learned information can accumulate over successive generations. However, cultural evolution and behavioural economics experiments have consistently shown apparently ...

Cultural change can be quantified by temporal changes in frequency of different cultural artefacts and it is a central question to identify what underlying cultural transmission processes could have caused the observed frequency changes. Observed changes, however, often describe the dynamics in samples of the population of artefacts, whereas transmission processes act on the whole population. H...