Culture and Cognition International Summer University 2007

Central European University Budapest

Dan Sperber: Modularity and relevance as psychological factors of cultural attraction

Daniel Fessler: Taboos, emotions and cultural evolution

Rita Astuti: On combining etnographic and experimental methods

Pierre Jacob: Is there a universal moral grammar?

Pascal Boyer: Why ritualized behaviour in humans?

György Gergely: Learning 'about' versus learning 'from' other minds

Susan Carey: Culture and cognitive development

Gergely Csibra: Pedagogy as a human-specific tool for cultural transmission

Vlad Naumescu: Imagination as specific mode of religious thinking?!

Christophe Heintz: Distributing mathematical cognition

Coralie Chevalier: Autistic spectrum disorders, ToM and seeing others as partners

Claire Cooper -- The cognitive foundations of reincarnation concepts

Mascaro Olivier: Cognitive and social trigerring of epistemic vigiliance