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  1. Comment on "Early evidence for symbolic behavior in the Levantine Middle Paleolithic: A 120 ka old engraved aurochs bone shaft from the open-air site of Nesher Ramla, Israel" [Quat. Int. (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.01.002]

    Article • Quaternary International, February 2022, Elsevier

    Derek Hodgson

  2. Upper Palaeolithic art as a perceptual search for magical images

    Article • Time and Mind, August 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Derek Hodgson

  3. Neuroimaging does not support the representational nature of the earliest human engravings: comment on Mellet et al.(2019)

    Article • December 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Derek Hodgson

  4. The Origins of Iconic Depictions: A Falsifiable Model Derived from the Visual Science of Palaeolithic Cave Art and World Rock Art

    Article • Cambridge Archaeological Journal, May 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Derek Hodgson

  5. Closely Observed Animals, Hunter-Gatherers and Visual Imagery in Upper Palaeolithic Art

    Article • Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, December 2017, The Netherlands Press

    Derek Hodgson

  6. Closely Observed Animals, Hunter-Gatherers, and Visual Imagery in Upper Paleolithic Art

    Article • Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, October 2017, The Netherlands Press

    Derek Hodgson

  7. Art as a signal for promoting large population cohesiveness

    Article • World Archaeology, February 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Derek Hodgson

  8. Early Engravings Structured by Accidental Made Patterns

    Article • December 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Derek Hodgson

  9. Are there alternative adaptive strategies to human pro-sociality? The role of collaborative morality in the emergence of personality variation and autistic traits

    Article • Time and Mind, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Penny Spikins, Derek Hodgson

  10. The visual brain and the early depiction of animals in Europe and Southeast Asia

    Article • World Archaeology, August 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Derek Hodgson

  11. Symmetry, Handaxes and Cognition

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, June 2015, Elsevier

    Derek Hodgson

  12. The arts analyzed from the perspective of biological and cultural evolution.

    Article • Biological Theory, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Derek Hodgson

  13. Accurate Portrayal of Spotted Horses in Upper Paleolithic Cave Art

    Article • Arts, May 2014, MDPI AG

    Derek Hodgson

  14. Decoding the Blombos Engravings, Shell Beads and Diepkloof Ostrich Eggshell Patterns

    Article • Cambridge Archaeological Journal, February 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Derek Hodgson

  15. Commentary on Turing instabilities and symbolic material culture by Froese, Woodward and Ikegami

    Article • Adaptive Behavior, December 2013, SAGE Publications

    Derek Hodgson

  16. Rapid detection of salient animal features encoded in the visual brain also found in rock art

    Article • Journal of Archaeology, January 2013, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Derek Hodgson

  17. The Relationship between Cognition, Population Rates and Material Culture in Human Evolution

    Article • Biological Theory, December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Derek Hodgson

  18. Differentiating human behavior from other higher primates in the context of environmental issues.

    Article • Humanities, December 2012, MDPI AG

    Derek Hodgson

  19. Accommodating Opposing Perspectives in the “Modern Human Behavior” Debate

    Article • Current Anthropology, June 2012, University of Chicago Press

    Derek Hodgson

  20. Emanations of the Mind: Upper Paleolithic Art as a Visual Phenomenon

    Article • Time and Mind, January 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Derek Hodgson

  21. Wild Thing, I Think I Love You

    Article • Current Anthropology, June 2011, University of Chicago Press

    Derek Hodgson

  22. Symmetry in Stone Tools as the First Example of an Aesthetic Interest

    Article • Symmetry, March 2011, MDPI AG

    Derek Hodgson

  23. Population, Cognition, and Early Human Behavior

    Article • Before Farming, January 2010, Liverpool University Press

    Derek Hodgson

  24. Reality check of the Steven Mithen's explanation of the large symmetrical Acheulean handaxes

    Article • Antiquity, March 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Derek Hodgson

  25. The relationship between the visual cortex, perception, and the shape of Acheulean handaxes

    Article • Comptes Rendus Palevol, January 2009, Elsevier

    Derek Hodgson

  26. The Role of Perception in Understanding Cave Art

    Article • Cambridge Archaeological Journal, October 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Derek Hodgson

  27. Altered States of Consciousness and Palaeoart: an Alternative Neurovisual Explanation

    Article • Cambridge Archaeological Journal, January 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Derek Hodgson

  28. More on Acheulean Tools

    Article • Current Anthropology, August 2005, University of Chicago Press

    Derek Hodgson

  29. Camouflage, the early visual brain, detection of animals, fractals and abstract expressionist art.

    Article • Leonardo, February 2005, The MIT Press

    Derek Hodgson

  30. Preconscious processes bias preferences for animals in Paleolithic cave art

    Article • Cambridge Archaeological Journal, April 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Derek Hodgson

  31. How the way the child's brain functions influences the drawing of objects

    Article • British Journal of Developmental Psychology, November 2002, Wiley

    Derek Hodgson

  32. Shamanism, Phosphenes, and Early Art: An Alternative Synthesis

    Article • Current Anthropology, December 2000, University of Chicago Press

    Derek Hodgson