The biogenic approach to cognition

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-29

  Lyon, Pamela ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biology of cognition; Cognition; Explanation; Theory

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANTHROPOLOGY; ANTICIPATION; BEHAVIOR; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSCIOUSNESS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DRIVE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; THINKING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MEMORY;

EID: 32044434417     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-005-0016-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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