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Abstract The authors present an ambitious attempt to outline the gradual evolution of the cognitive foundations of ostensive communication. We focus on three problematic aspects of the distinction between expression… Click to show full abstract
Abstract The authors present an ambitious attempt to outline the gradual evolution of the cognitive foundations of ostensive communication. We focus on three problematic aspects of the distinction between expression and communication: ambiguity in the distinction's central principle of “complementary mechanisms,” inconsistencies in the application of the distinction across taxa, and the dismissal of mentalizing in nonhuman primates.
Keywords:
communication;
distinction;
dissociation expression;
expression communication;
murky dissociation
Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2023
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Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2023
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