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Senior Research Fellow in Theoretical Life Sciences All Souls College,University of Oxford Fellow of the British Academy Fellow of theCognitive Science Society Past-President of theExperimental Psychology Society Address: All Souls College, Oxford, OX1 4AL Phone: +44 (0)1865 279394 Email: cecilia.heyes@all-souls.ox.ac.uk Twitter: @CeliaHeyes	photography by Robert Taylor www.taylor-photo.co.uk
My work concerns the evolution of cognition. It explores the ways in which natural selection, learning, developmental and cultural processes combine to produce the mature cognitive abilities found in adult humans. I am especially interested in social cognition. Most of my current projects examine the possibility that the neurocognitive mechanisms enabling cultural inheritance - social learning, imitation, mirror neurons, mind reading etc - are themselves products of cultural evolution.
Book published by Harvard University Press
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