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Out of their heads: Turning relational reinterpretation inside out

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2008

Louise Barrett
Louise Barrett
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Department of Psychology, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4, Canada. [email protected]://directory.uleth.ca/users/louise.barrett
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Abstract

Although Penn et al's incisive critique of comparative cognition is welcomed, their heavily computational and representational account of cognition commits them to a purely internalist view of cognitive processes. This perhaps blinds them to a distributed alternative that raises the possibility that the human cognitive revolution occurred outside the head, and not in it.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 130 - 131
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Copyright ©Cambridge University Press 2008

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