The hierarchical transformation of event knowledge in human cultural transmission

Journal of Cognition and Culture

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-24

  Mesoudi, Alex ^a   Whiten, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural transmission; Event knowledge; Hierarchical structure; Schemas; Scripts

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748076869     PISSN: 15677095     EISSN: 15685373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853704323074732     Document Type: Article

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