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Twenty questions about cultural cognitive gadgets
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2019
Abstract
Heyes sets out an intriguing theory but it raises more questions than compelling answers concerning culturally shaped cognition. I set out what I see as the most pressing questions, ranging over the book's early chapters concerning the structure of the theory, to two of Heyes’ four exemplar cognitive domains, selective social learning and imitation.
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