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ReviewJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2024

A computational approach to selective attention in embodied approaches to cognitive archaeology.

Axel Constant, Laura Desirèe Di Paolo, Avel Guénin-Carlut, Luis M Martinez, Felipe Criado-Boado, Johannes Müeller, Andy Clark

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Review in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Extending Minds with Generative AI.Nature communications · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Axel ConstantSchool of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, Falmer (Brighton & Hove), UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1547-8803
Laura Desirèe Di PaoloSchool of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, Falmer (Brighton & Hove), UK.
Avel Guénin-CarlutSchool of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, Falmer (Brighton & Hove), UK.
Luis M MartinezInstituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
Felipe Criado-BoadoInstituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.
Johannes MüellerKiel University, Kiel, Germany.
Andy ClarkSchool of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, Falmer (Brighton & Hove), UK.

Funding

ERC-2020-SyG, European Research Council Grant
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article proposes a novel computational approach to embodied approaches in cognitive archaeology called computational cognitive archaeology (CCA). We argue that cognitive archaeology, understood as the study of the human mind based on archaeological findings such as artefacts and material remains excavated and interpreted in the present, can benefit from the integration of novel methods in computational neuroscience interested in modelling the way the brain, the body and the environment are coupled and parameterized to allow for adaptive behaviour. We discuss the kind of tasks that CCA may engage in with a narrative example of how one can model the cumulative cultural evolution of the material and cognitive components of technologies, focusing on the case of knapping technology. This article thus provides a novel theoretical framework to formalize research in cognitive archaeology using recent developments in computational neuroscience.

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ArchaeologyCognitionAttentionComputer SimulationHumansattentioncomputational cognitive archaeologycomputational cognitive sciencehidden-Markov modelspredictive processing

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PMID39378981
PMCPMC11461058

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