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Wisher, I. (2024). Children as Playful Artists: Integrating Developmental Psychology to Identify Children’s Art in the Upper Palaeolithic. Abstract from Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Conference, London, United Kingdom.

Tylén, K., Hussain, S. T., Velliky, E., Gonzalez, R. M. & Straffon, L. M. (2024). Honing Tools of the Mind: A Dynamic Framework for the Study of Symbolic Behavior in Early Human Evolution. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/b8fz2

Wisher, I., Pagnotta, M., Palacio-Pérez, E., Fusaroli, R., Garate, D., Hodgson, D., Matthews, J., Mendoza-Straffon, L., Ochoa, B., Riede, F. & Tylén, K. (2023). Beyond the image: Interdisciplinary and contextual approaches to understanding symbolic cognition in Paleolithic parietal art. Evolutionary Anthropology, 32(5), 256-259. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21996

Wisher, I. & Tylén, K. (2023). On the semiotic and material constraints of ideographies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, Article e257. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23000742

Tylén, K., Fusaroli, R., Rojo, S., Heimann, K., Fay, N., Johannsen, N. N., Riede, F. & Lombard, M. (2020). The evolution of early symbolic behavior in Homo sapiens. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(9), 4578-4584. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910880117

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Wisher, Izzy, Lecturer, Conversations with Caves? Understanding the role of visual psychological phenomena in Upper Palaeolithic cave art making , 26.02.2024
Pagnotta, Murillo, Participant, Protolang Conference 2023 , 27.09.2023 -28.09.2023
Tylén, Kristian, Lecturer, Using transmission chain experiments to investigate the cumulative cultural evolution of the Blombos and Diepkloof engravings , 22.09.2023
Wisher, Izzy, Lecturer, Tylén, Kristian, Lecturer, eSYMb - The Evolution of Early Symbolic Behaviour , 31.07.2023
Tylén, Kristian, Lecturer, Reconstructing early human symbolic evolution using transmission experiments , 29.07.2023
Tylén, Kristian, Lecturer, What can experiments reveal about the evolution of symbolic behavior? , 29.07.2023
Tylén, Kristian, Participant, Sablé-Meyer, Mathias , Participant, Fan, Judith, Participant, Langley, Michelle, Participant, Marks and Meanings , 28.07.2023
Pagnotta, Murillo, Participant, International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA 2023) , 27.06.2023 -30.06.2023
Tylén, Kristian, Lecturer, The evolution of early symbolic behaviour , 22.06.2023
Tylén, Kristian, Lecturer, Investigating the cognitive affordances of symbolic artefacts , 12.06.2023
Tylén, Kristian, Lecturer, The evolution of early symbolic behaviour , 09.06.2023
Tylén, Kristian, Lecturer, Investigating the cognitive affordances of symbolic artefacts , 16.05.2023
Wisher, Izzy, Organizer, Tylén, Kristian, Organizer, Pagnotta, Murillo, Organizer, Riede, Felix, Participant, Fusaroli, Riccardo, Participant, Matthews, John, Speaker, Hodgson, Derek, Speaker, Ochoa, Blanca, Speaker, Palacio-Pérez, Eduardo, Organizer, Garate, Diego, Speaker, Mendoza-Straffon, Larissa, Speaker, Understanding the Development of Symbolic Cognition through Rock Art: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue , 15.05.2023 -16.05.2023
Wisher, Izzy, Lecturer, Relational Making: The Role of Pareidolia in the Upper Palaeolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain. , 25.04.2023
Wisher, Izzy, Lecturer, The Role of Pareidolia in the Upper Palaeolithic Figurative Art of the Monte Castillo Caves. , 19.04.2023
Tylén, Kristian, Lecturer, Uncovering the Cognitive Affordances of Symbolic Artefacts , 18.04.2023
Wisher, Izzy, Lecturer, Conversations with Caves: The Role of Pareidolia in the Making of Upper Palaeolithic Cave Art. , 23.03.2023
Tylén, Kristian, Lecturer, The Evolution of Early Symbolic Behavior - an interdisciplinary approach , 17.02.2023
Wisher, Izzy, Lecturer, Pareidolia and Cave Art: Integrating Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understand the Cognitive Mechanisms Behind the Emergence of Palaeolithic Art. , 04.11.2022

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