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Taxing memory: Writing, memory, and conceptual change
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2010
Abstract
Writing is important not because it “extends memory” but because it invites new concepts. The basic cognitive resources, including memory, have remained unchanged for perhaps a million years but the objects on which it has to work have changed significantly partly because of writing which has tended to turn speech into an object of reflection and analysis.
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