Derek Hodgson

Experience

• 2006–present
  Adjunct associate, University of York

Publications

• 2020
  The Cognitive Mechanisms Deriving from the Acheulean Handaxe that Gave Rise to Symmetry, Form, and Pattern Perception. In, Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology: Psychology in Prehistory. pp. 241-260, Routledge
• 2019
  Stone Tools and Spatial Cognition, Squeezing Minds from Stones
• 2019
  The Roots of Visual Depiction in Art: Neuroarchaeology, Neuroscience, and Evolution, Cambridge Scholars
• 2018
  The origins of iconic depictions: a falsifiable model derived from the visual science of Palaeolithic cave art and world rock art, Cambridge Archaeological Journal
• 2017
  Costly signalling, the arts, archaeology and human behaviour, World Archaeology
• 2017
  Closely Observed Animals, Hunter-Gatherers and Visual Imagery in Upper Palaeolithic Art. , Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture.
• 2016
  Are there alternative adaptive strategies to human pro-sociality? The role of collaborative morality in the emergence of personality variation and autistic traits. , Time and Mind
• 2016
  Deciphering Patterns in the Archaeology of South Africa: The Neurovisual Resonance Theory. , Formal Models in Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology.
• 2016
  Why is rock art so evocative? Affective depiction of animals from Coso Range petroglyphs, southwest California, and Isco, Hazaribagh, India, Expression
• 2015
  The visual brain and the early depiction of animals in Europe and Southeast Asia. , World Archaeology
• 2015
  The symmetry of Acheulean handaxes and cognitive evolution. , Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
• 2014
  Commentary on Turing instabilities and symbolic material culture by Froese, Woodward and Ikegami. , Adaptive Behaviour
• 2014
  Decoding the Blombos Engravings, Shell Beads, and Diepkloof Ostrich Eggshell Patterns. , Cambridge Archaeological Journal
• 2014
  The Significance of the Pech Merle Spotted Horses. , MDPI World Rock Art
• 2014
  The Evolutionary Significance of the Arts: Exploring the By-product Hypothesis in the Context of Ritual, Precursors, and Cultural Evolution, Biological Theory
• 2013
  Grappling with an enigma: the complexity of human behavior as a multidimensional phenomenon, The Psychology of Human Behavior
• 2013
  Ambiguity, Perception, and the First Representations, Origins of Pictures
• 2013
  Cognitive Evolution, Population, Transmission, and Material Culture. , Biological Theory
• 2013
  The Visual Brain, Perception, and the Depiction of Animals in Rock Art. , The Journal of Archaeology
• 2013
  The consequences of human behavior. , MDPI Humanities
• 2012
  Accommodating Opposing Perspectives in the “Modern Human Behavior” Debate, Current Anthropology
• 2012
  Emanations of the mind: Upper Palaeolithic art as a visual phenomenon. , Time and Mind
• 2012
  Hominin Tool Production, Neural Integration and the Social Brain. , Human Origins
• 2011
  The First Appearance of Symmetry in the Human Lineage: Where Perception Meets Art. , MDPI Symmetry
• 2010
  The neuropsychological basis of rock art: hyperimagery and its significance for understanding the archaeological record, Archaeological Invisibility and Forgotten Knowledge.
• 2010
  The Neuropsychology of “Animism”: Implications for Understanding Rock Art, Rock Art Research
• 2010
  Determining the behavioural profile of early modern humans: assimilating population dynamics and cognitive abilities, Before Farming
• 2009
  The Earliest Manifestations of ‘Art’: An Attempted Integration, Exploring the Mind of Ancient Man.
• 2009
  Evolution of the visual cortex and the emergence of symmetry in the Acheulean techno-complex. , C.R. Palevol.
• 2008
  The Visual Dynamics of Upper Palaeolithic Art, Cambridge Archaeological Journal
• 2008
  An "aesthetic" explanation for the symmetry of Acheulian handaxes: some neuropsychological insights, Plastir
• 2008
  Neurovisual theory, the visuo-motor system and Pleistocene palaeoart. , Pleistocene Palaeoart of the World. BAR International Series
• 2006
  Altered States of Consciousness and Palaeoart: An Alternative Neurovisual Explanation, Cambridge Archaeological Journal
• 2006
  The Emergence of the Representation of Animals in Palaeoart: Insights from evolution and the cognitive, limbic and visual systems of the human brain, Rock Art Research
• 2006
  . Understanding the Origins of Palaeoart: The Neurovisual Resonance Theory and Brain Functioning. , Paleoanthropology
• 2005
  Graphic Primitives and the Embedded Figure in 20th Century Art: Insights from Neuroscience, Ethology and Perception. , Leonardo
• 2004
  Ways of Seeing - The Innocent Eye, Individual View and Visual Realism in Art, Journal of Consciousness Studies.
• 2003
  Seeing the “Unseen”: Fragmented Cues and the Implicit in Palaeolithic Art. , Cambridge Archaeological Journal
• 2003
  The Biological Foundations of Upper Palaeolithic Art: Stimulus. Percept and Representational Imperatives. , Rock Art Research
• 2002
  Canonical perspective and typical features in children's drawings: A neuroscientific appraisal. , British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
• 2000
  Shamanism, Phosphenes, and Early Art: An Alternative Synthesis. , Current Anthropology
• 2000
  Art, Perception and Information Processing: An Evolutionary Perspective. , Rock Art Research