Word, Niche and Super-Niche: How Language Makes Minds Matter More
How does language (spoken or written) impact thought? One useful way to approach this important but elusive question may be to consider language itself as a cognition-enhancing animal-built structure. To take this perspective is to view language as a kind of self-constructed cognitive niche.
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Language: | English |
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University of the Basque Country
2010-01-01
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Series: | THEORIA : an International Journal for Theory, History and Fundations of Science |
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Online Access: | http://www.ehu.es/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/view/561 |