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The role of communication in acquisition, curation, and transmission of culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2020

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Hyowon Gweon*
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Abstract

Veissière et al.'s proposal aims to explain how cognition enables cultural learning, but fails to acknowledge a distinctively human behavior critical to this process: communication. Recent advances in developmental and computational cognitive science suggest that the social-cognitive capacities central to TTOM also support sophisticated yet remarkably early-emerging inferences and communicative behaviors that allow us to learn and share abstract knowledge.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e104
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