The article "The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition" by Michael Tomasello, published in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in 2003, explores how humans are biologically adapted for culture in ways that other primates are not. Tomasello argues that uniquely human forms of social understanding and cultural learning emerge around one year of age when infants begin to engage in joint attentional activities, including linguistic communication. The study also draws comparisons with the social cognition of apes to specify the nature of these uniquely human abilities.The article "The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition" by Michael Tomasello, published in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in 2003, explores how humans are biologically adapted for culture in ways that other primates are not. Tomasello argues that uniquely human forms of social understanding and cultural learning emerge around one year of age when infants begin to engage in joint attentional activities, including linguistic communication. The study also draws comparisons with the social cognition of apes to specify the nature of these uniquely human abilities.