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Dr Ryutaro UCHIYAMA
Research Fellow
Dr Ryutaro Uchiyama was a Research Fellow at the NTU–Cambridge Centre for Lifelong Learning and Individualised Cognition (CLIC), based in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He obtained his PhD in 2021 from the London School of Economics and is a cultural and biological psychologist who has been trained in cognitive science, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology in the UK, US, Canada, and Japan. He conducts research on the interaction between cultural evolution and cognitive plasticity.
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Tong, Ke. 2022. “Cognitive Flexibility and Its Association with Linguistic Preferences, Decision-Making, Tolerance of Uncertainty and Perceived Social Support,” April. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/AY9GR.
Uchiyama, R., Spicer, R., & Muthukrishna, M. (2021). Cultural Evolution of Genetic Heritability. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1-147. doi:10.1017/S0140525X21000893
Finlay, B. L.,a and Uchiyama, R. (2020) Chapter 34 - The Timing of Brain Maturation, Early Experience, and the Human Social Niche, Evolutionary Neuroscience (Second Edition), 815-843, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820584-6.00034-9
Ryutaro Uchiyama & Michael Muthukrishna (2019) Archetypes are a Poor Primitive for a Theory of Mental Representations, Psychological Inquiry, 30:2, 87-92, DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2019.1614806
Finlay, B. L., and Uchiyama, R. (2015) Developmental mechanisms channeling cortical evolution, Trends in Neurosciences, 38(2), 69-76, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2014.11.004