What am I reading?

Later on I plan on making similar posts under this title as a separate section, but for now I just wanted to let the few of you know how I am gearing up for my new comparative psychology projects. While updating myself with the journal Trends in Cognitive Science (TICS), I found an update by Larry Barsalou, who comments on Gil-da-Costa et al., (2004) article from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Along with those two papers, I found another article in TICS by David Buller. I am interested in getting his new book from MIT Press, called Adapting Minds, and since the title of this article was so alluring (Evolutionary psychology: the emperor's new paradigm) and relevant to the previously mentioned papers, I bundled all three together as sort of an evolutionary psychology primer. These papers in all are pretty short (15 pages total), and it may be nice to distribute these as the beginning readings for the new semester once I have recruited the undergraduates for Owren's lab.

I will follow this post with some theoretical and methodological comments soon.