RECENT COMMENTARIES by Jim Hurford

• in press (with Molly Flaherty and Giorgis Argyropoulos) Past and future, human and non-human, semantic/procedural and episodic, commentary on Thomas Suddendorf's and Michael C. Corballis' target article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, ``The evolution of foresight: What is mental time travel and is it unique to humans?''
  
  
• 2004 Two ways of differing about actions and objects, commentary on Michael Arbib's target article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, ``From monkey-like action recognition to human language: An evolutionary framework for neurolinguistics''.
  
  
• 2002 (with Jean-Louis Dessalles) ``The problematic transition from specific competences to general competence'', peer commentary on Peter Carruthers' target article ``The cognitive functions of language'', Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
  
  
• 2001 ``Languages treat 1-4 specially'', commentary on Stanislas Dehaene's precis of his book The Number Sense. In Symposium on Numerical Cognition, special issue of Mind and Language, 16(1):69-75. To view from postscript file.
  
  
• 1999 ``Individuals are Abstractions'', peer commentary on Lawrence Barsalou's target article ``Perceptual Symbol Systems'', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22,4:577-660. To view from postscript file.
  
  
• 1997 (with Simon Kirby, Sam Joseph and Alistair Reid) "Evolution might select constructivism", (open peer commentary on S.R. Quartz and T.J. Sejnowski's "The neural basis of cognitive development: a constructivist manifesto"), Behavioral and Brain Sciences,20,4:567.
  
  
• 1995 (with Simon Kirby) ``Neural preconditions for proto-language'', (open peer commentary on W.K.Wilkins and J.Wakefield's ``Brain evolution and neurolinguistic preconditions''), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 18,1:193-194.