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A cognitive transition underlying both technological and social aspects of cumulative culture

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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… Click to show full abstract

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.

Keywords: technological social; social aspects; transition underlying; cognitive transition; underlying technological; culture

Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2020

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