The cultural constitution of cognition: Taking the anthropological perspective

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue APR, 2011, Pages

  Bender, Andrea ^a   Beller, Sieghard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Cognition; Cognitive science; Culture; Interdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855396369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00067     Document Type: Article

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