A Cognitive Transition Underlying Both Technological and Social Aspects of Cumulative Culture.

Authors

Liane Gabora, University of British Columbia
Cameron M. Smith, Portland State UniversityFollow

Published In

The Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Document Type

Citation

Publication Date

8-10-2020

Abstract

The argument that cumulative technological culture originates in technical-reasoning skills is not the only alternative to social accounts; another possibility is that accumulation of both technical-reasoning skills and enhanced social skills stemmed from the onset of a more basic cognitive ability such as recursive representational redescription. The paper confuses individual learning of pre-existing information with creative generation of new information.

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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

Locate the Document

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20000230

DOI

10.1017/S0140525X20000230

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34147

Citation Details

Gabora, L., & Smith, C. M. (2020). A cognitive transition underlying both technological and social aspects of cumulative culture. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20000230