Cecilia HeyesFBA (born 6 March 1960) is a British psychologist who studies the evolution of the human mind.[1] She is a Senior Research Fellow in Theoretical Life Sciences at All Souls College, and a Professor of Psychology at the University of Oxford. She is also a Fellow of the British Academy (psychology and philosophy sections),[2] and President of the Experimental Psychology Society.
Heyes is the author of Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking (2018),[3][4][5] described by Tyler Cowen as "an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences".[6]
Heyes has argued that the picture presented by some evolutionary psychology of the human mind as a collection of cognitive instincts – organs of thought shaped by genetic evolution over very long time periods[7][8] – does not fit research results. She posits instead that humans have cognitive gadgets – "special-purpose organs of thought" built in the course of development through social interaction. These are products of cultural rather than genetic evolution,[9] and may develop and change much more quickly and flexibly than cognitive instincts.
In 2017, Heyes gave the Chandaria Lectures at the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.[9] She has written for the Times Literary Supplement[10] and given a number of radio and television interviews.[11]
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CeciliaHeyes FBA (born 6 March 1960) is a British psychologist who studies the evolution of the human mind. She is a Senior Research Fellow in Theoretical...
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Emeritus Professor in 2005. His doctoral students include Kevin Lala and CeciliaHeyes.[citation needed] Evolutionary Psychology: Plotkin's work helped establish...
input and be in the right place in the neural circuitry to do that." CeciliaHeyes has advanced the theory that mirror neurons are the byproduct of associative...
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imitative behaviors. Behavioral mechanisms have also been studied. CeciliaHeyes at the University of Oxford argues that the mechanisms underlying social...
consensus about whether any animal can ascribe any mental state" (Heyes' emphasis). Heyes further suggested that "In combination with the use of inanimate...
Crompton". The British Academy. Retrieved 10 September 2017. "Professor CeciliaHeyes". The British Academy. Retrieved 30 October 2016. "Professor Jenny Cheshire...
Müller and Stuart A. Newman (Eds.), 2003. The Evolution of Cognition. CeciliaHeyes and Ludwig Huber (Eds.), 2000. Series information at the MIT Press page...
19 (5): 1016–1020. doi:10.1109/21.44016. Askari, Nazanin; Moloney, Cecilia; Heys, Howard M. (November 2011). Application of Visual Cryptography to Biometric...
Gluckman Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester CeciliaHeyes, Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College and Professor of Psychology...
7 forms of entry. Alexander Arnold, film and television actor Prof CeciliaHeyes, Professor of Psychology since 2009 at the University of Oxford, and...
Archived from the original on October 22, 2020. Retrieved September 17, 2023. Cecilia Kang (February 15, 2018). "F.C.C. Watchdog Looks Into Changes That Benefited...
and Stuart Newman. October 1999 Evolution of Cognition. Organized by CeciliaHeyes, Ludwig Huber, and Adolf Heschl. August 1998 Evolutionary Naturalism...
artistic war against her street harassers". Mother Jones. Alvarez, Ana Cecilia. "Hey stranger, stop telling me to smile". The Daily Beast. Archived from...
Feynman about his dying. Gribbin & Gribbin 1997, pp. 257–258. Rasmussen, Cecilia (June 5, 2005). "History Exhumed Via Computer Chip". Los Angeles Times...
original on 27 March 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2015. Yap, Clarissa Batino Cecilia (3 August 2016). "Duterte to Push Ahead With Name-Shame in Drug War as...
Comercio (in Spanish). 20 June 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023. Colín, Cecilia (5 July 2023). "Wendy Guevara revela dura infancia". Tribuna de México...
Luke [es], Pedro Damian, Claudio Brook, José Carlos Ruiz, Farnesio de Bernal, Cecilia Camacho, Enrique Lucero United Kingdom Euro-Western The Electric Horseman...
Arts Theatre in the West End of London, together with Anita Dobson and Cecilia Noble. Stansfield played herself in the comedy series Monkey Trousers in...
the Wayback Machine, TheVideoInk.com, June 18, 2015 Kurzweil, Ethan and Cecilia Stallsmith. "Fame's Dose of Democratization" Archived July 22, 2015, at...
Josh Mostel, Ann Talman, Andrea Thompson, Lauren Tom, Michael O'Donoghue, Cecilia Peck, Paul Guilfoyle, Annie McEnroe, Grant Shaud, Saul Rubinek, Sean Stone...
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