Clark Barrett
Assistant Professor
UCLA Department of Anthropology
Home Page at UCLA
My research examines universals of domain-specific cognition and how these develop in childhood. I have examined early domain-specific knowledge about predators and prey, domain-specific learning about dangerous animals, cultural universals in the perception of intentionality, the living / dead distinction, and thinking about artifacts. In addition to working with children and adults in the United States and Germany, I conduct field studies among the Shuar, a hunter-horticulturalist society in the Amazon region of Ecuador, in order to test hypotheses about universals in cognitive development.
Author of the following papers featured on interdisciplines.org:
· Causal Inferences. Evolutionary Domains and Neural Systems
|
|
