Category Archives: Cultural cognition

The Cultural Context of Cognition

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Giorgio Bertini

This article employs evidence from a literature within social psychology on the malleability of scores on the Implicit Association Test (IAT), a measure that is widely used to assess implicit attitudes, and other implicit cognition measures, to provide a theoretical framework for … Continue reading →

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The Self-Organization of the Cultural Subsystem of Modern Society

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

This paper tries to link Self-organization theory and Cultural Studies. Its approach can be described as a dialectical Cultural Materialism that integrates aspects from semiotics and systems theory in order to describe culture as an integrative, dynamic, complex, evolving system. … Continue reading →

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The Origin of Cultural Differences in Cognition

Posted on June 6, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

A large body of research documents cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. Westerners tend to be more analytic and East Asians tend to be more holistic. These findings have often been explained as being due to corresponding differences in … Continue reading →

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Cooperation and Human Cognition: the Vygotskian Intelligence hypothesis

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

Nicholas Humphrey’s social intelligence hypothesis proposed that the major engine of primate cognitive evolution was social competition. Lev Vygotsky also emphasized the social dimension of intelligence, but he focused on human primates and cultural things such as collaboration, communication, and … Continue reading →

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Ontogenesis of the Socially Extended Mind

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

I consider the developmental origins of the socially extended mind. First, I argue that, from birth, the physical interventions caregivers use to regulate infant attention and emotion (gestures, facial expressions, direction of gaze, body orientation, patterns of touch and vocalization, … Continue reading →

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Cognitive Integration, Enculturated Cognition and the Socially Extended Mind

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

Shaun Gallagher presents an interesting case for the social extension of the mind. I argue that there is one way in which Gallagher can argue for a social extension, which is continuous with an enculturated model of cognition, such as … Continue reading →

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The Developmental Origin of Metacognition

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

We explain metacognition as a management of cognitive resources that does not necessitate algorithmic strategies or meta-representation. When pragmatic, world-directed actions cannot reduce the distance to the goal, agents engage in epistemic action directed at cognition. Such actions often are … Continue reading →

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The Cultural Part of Cognition

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

This paper discusses the role of cultural anthropology in Cognitive Science. Culture is described as a very large pool of information passed along from generation to generation, composed of learned “programs” for action and understanding. These cultural programs differ in … Continue reading →

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The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

Michael Tomasello argues that the roots of the human capacity for symbol-based culture, and the kind of psychological development that takes place within it, are based in a cluster of uniquely human cognitive capacities that emerge early in human ontogeny. … Continue reading →

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Mining the Intersections of Cognitive Sociology and Neuroscience

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

Over the past 50 years, cognitive neuroscience has emerged as the dominant player in research on thought. In an effort to keep their voices heard, social psychologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and even economists have joined cognitive neuroscientists in the lively … Continue reading →