The present paper explores cross-cultural variation in spatial cognition by comparing spatial
reconstruction tasks by Dutch and Namibian elementary school children. These two …

Frames of reference are coordinate systems used to compute and specify the location of
objects with respect to other objects. These have long been thought of as innate concepts, built …

Both adults and adolescents often conform their behavior and opinions to peer groups, even
when they themselves know better. The current study investigated this phenomenon in 24 …

Psychology must confront the bias in its broad literature toward the study of participants
developing in environments unrepresentative of the vast majority of the world’s population. Here, …

Li and Gleitman (Turning the tables: language and spatial reasoning. Cognition, in press)
seek to undermine a large-scale cross-cultural comparison of spatial language and cognition …

Now more than ever animal studies have the potential to test hypotheses regarding how
cognition evolves. Comparative psychologists have developed new techniques to probe the …

Current approaches to human cognition often take a strong nativist stance based on Western
adult performance, backed up where possible by neonate and infant research and almost …

Episodic memory, as defined by Tulving, can be described in terms of behavioural elements
(what, where and when information) but it is also accompained by an awareness of one’s …

Distributing the spoils of a joint enterprise on the basis of work contribution or relative
productivity seems natural to the modern Western mind. But such notions of merit-based …

Cultural transmission is a key component of human evolution. Two of humans' closest living
relatives, chimpanzees and orangutans, have also been argued to transmit behavioral …