This topic addresses a question of key interest to cognitive science, namely which factors may have triggered, constrained, or shaped the course of cognitive evolution. It highlights the relevance of culture as a driving force in this process, with a special focus on social learning and language, conceptual tools, and material culture. In so doing, the topic combines two goals: to provide an overview of current empirical and theoretical work leading this field, tailored for a wider cognitive science audience, and to investigate the potential for integrating multiple perspectives across several timescales and levels of analysis, from the microlevel of individual behavior to the macrolevel of cultural change and language diversification. One key purpose is to assess the extent to which the different research approaches can cross‐fertilize each other, thereby also contributing to the advancement of cognitive science more broadly.

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编辑评论与简介：认知的文化演变。

本主题解决了认知科学的一个关键问题，即哪些因素可能触发，限制或塑造了认知进化的过程。它着重强调了文化在这一过程中作为驱动力的重要性，并特别关注社会学习和语言，概念工具和物质文化。这样，该主题组合了两个目标：提供针对该领域的当前经验和理论工作的概述，专为更广泛的认知科学读者量身定做；以及研究从多个时间范围和分析级别整合多种观点的潜力从个人行为的微观层面到文化变革和语言多样化的宏观层面。一个主要目的是评估不同研究方法可以相互交叉杂交的程度，