Giorgio Bertini
Research Professor. Founder Director at Learning Change Project – Research on society, culture, art, neuroscience, cognition, critical thinking, intelligence, creativity, autopoiesis, self-organization, rhizomes, complexity, systems, networks, leadership, sustainability, thinkers, futures ++
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Emotion
No aspect of our mental life is more important to the quality and meaning of our existence than the emotions. They are what make life worth living and sometimes worth ending. So it is not surprising that most of the … Continue reading
The Influences of Emotion on Learning and Memory
Emotion has a substantial influence on the cognitive processes in humans, including perception, attention, learning, memory, reasoning, and problem solving. Emotion has a particularly strong influence on attention, especially modulating the selectivity of attention as well as motivating action and … Continue reading
Preschoolers: Tips for Supporting Learning at Home
How to help young children keep developing new skills. During the coronavirus crisis, parents whose children usually attend preschools are now managing the enrichment and education of their young children at home. We know most parents can’t replicate a full … Continue reading
Posted in Childrearing, Children, Children's learning
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Curiosity and Wonder: Cue Into Children’s Inborn Motivation to Learn
Children are born eager to learn. Curious by nature, you can’t keep them fromexploring as they try to comprehend their environment. Everything is a wonder.Children’s curiosity is first focused on you: mom and dad. You’re an amazing miracle to gaze … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Children's learning, Curiosity, Curiosity-based learning
Tagged children, Children's learning, curiosity, curiosity-based learning
Towards Social Capital in a Network Organization
Due to the complexity of an open multi-agent system, agents’ interactions are instantiated spontaneously, resulting in beneficent collaborations with one another for mutual actions that are beyond one’s current capabilities. Repeated patterns of interactions shape a feature of their organizational … Continue reading
Posted in Interaction, Interactive learning, Networks, Social capital
Tagged interaction, Interactive learning, networks, social capital
The Extended Theory of Cognitive Creativity
This edited volume focuses on the hypothesis that performativity is not a property confined to certain specific human skills, or to certain specific acts of language, nor an accidental enrichment due to creative intelligence. Instead, the executive and motor component … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Cognitive Creativity, Creativity
Tagged cognition, Cognitive Creativity, creativity
The biological origins of rituals: An interdisciplinary perspective
Ritual behavior is ubiquitous, marking animal motor patterns, normal and psychopathological behavior in human individuals as well as every human culture. Moreover, formal features of rituals appear to be highly conserved along phylogeny and characterized by a circular and spatio-temporal … Continue reading
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The Social Functions of Group Rituals
Convergent developments across social scientific disciplines provide evidence that ritual is a psychologically prepared, culturally inherited, behavioral trademark of our species. We draw on evidence from the anthropological and evolutionary-science literatures to offer a psychological account of the social functions … Continue reading
Posted in Group rituals, Groups
Tagged Group rituals, groups
Collective Responsibility
The notion of collective responsibility, like that of personal responsibility and shared responsibility, refers in most contexts to both the causal responsibility of moral agents for harm in the world and the blameworthiness that we ascribe to them for having … Continue reading
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Modest Sociality, Minimal Cooperation and Natural Intersubjectivity
What is the relation between small-scale collaborative plans and the execution of those plans within interactive contexts? I argue here that joint attention has a key role in explaining how shared plans and shared intentions are executed in interactive contexts. … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperation, Sociality
Tagged cooperation, sociality
