Embraining culture: Leaky minds and spongy brains

Teorema

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 35-53

  Kiverstein, Julian ^a   Farina, Mirko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive bloat; Cognitive dovetailing; Complementarity; Enculturation; Extended functionalism; Martian intuition; Parity principle; Synaptic pruning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959296996     PISSN: 02101602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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