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Psychology, Biological

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# Journal I/F

BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Advancing paleoanthropology beyond default nulls. Cultural innovation is not only a product of cognition but also of cultural context. Behavioural modernity is dead: Long live behavioural modernity. What would be pre-modern human cognition? Material culture both reflects and causes human cognitive evolution. Don't ignore cognitive evolution during the three million years that preceded the archaeological record of material culture! Sports, team games, and physical skill competitions as an important source of symbolic material culture with low preservation probability. Proposing the DN(C)-model of material evidence for well-calibrated claims about past cultures. Negative priors and inferences from absence of evidence in cognitive and linguistic archaeology: Epistemically sound and scientifically strategic. Revising the null model in language evolution research. Beyond the binary: Inferential challenges and solutions in cognitive archaeology. Not just symbolism: Technologies may also have a less than direct connection with cognition. Are we jingling modern hunter-gatherers and early Homo sapiens ? The cognitive and evolutionary science of behavioural modernity goes beyond material chronology. Inferences from absences. All that glitters is not gold: The false-symbol problem in archaeology. Perishable material choice indicates symbolic and representational capacities. Shared intentionality may have been favored by persistence hunting in Homo erectus . Animal artefacts challenge archaeological standards for tracing human symbolic cognition. Archaeology retains a central role for studying the behavioral and cognitive evolution of our species and genus. Hominin cognition: The null hypothesis. Endogenous reward is a bridge between social/cognitive and behavioral models of choice. Resurrecting the "black-box" conundrum. Exploring novelty to unpack the black-box of motivation. Motivation needs cognition but is not just about cognition. The unboxing has already begun: One motivation construct at a time. It's bigger on the inside: mapping the black box of motivation. Human motivation is organized hierarchically, from proximal (means) to ultimate (ends). Expectancy value theory's contribution to unpacking the black box of motivation. Needed: Clear definition and hierarchical integration of motivation constructs. Almost, but not quite there: Research into the emergence of higher-order motivated behavior should fully embrace the dynamic systems approach. Don't throw motivation out with the black box: The value of a good theory revisited. Higher-order motivational constructs as personal-level fictions: A solution in search of a problem. When unpacking the black box of motivation invites three forms of reductionism. Motivational whack-a-mole: Foundational boxes cannot be unpacked. Connecting theories of personality dynamics and mental computational processes. The role of metacognitive feelings in motivation. Mental computational processes have always been an integral part of motivation science. Motivational constructs: Real, causally powerful, not psychologically constructed. Adopt process-oriented models (if they're more useful). Beyond reductionism: Understanding motivational energization requires higher-order constructs. Postcard from inside the black box. Predictive processing: Shedding light on the computational processes underlying motivated behavior. There's no such thing as a free lunch: A computational perspective on the costs of motivation. Definitional devils and detail: On identifying motivation as an animating dynamic. The ins and outs of unpacking the black box: Understanding motivation using a multi-level approach. Response to the critiques (and encouragements) on our critique of motivation constructs. The Mbuti people still reproduce a 75,000 years old recursive pattern. Multi-species societies. Vocalizations are ideal identity signals.