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Automated, Quantitative Cognitive/Behavioral Screening of Mice: For Genetics, Pharmacology, Animal Cognition and Undergraduate Instruction
Published on: February 26, 2014
Cognitive gadgets and genetic accommodation
Eva Jablonka1, Simona Ginsburg2, Daniel Dor3
1Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. jablonka@tauex.tau.ac.ilhttps://en-humanities.tau.ac.il/profile/jablonka.
Abstract:
Heyes argues that human metacognitive strategies (cognitive gadgets) evolved through cultural rather than genetic evolution. Although we agree that increased plasticity is the hallmark of human metacognition, we suggest cognitive malleability required the genetic accommodation of gadget-specific processes that enhanced the overall cognitive flexibility of humans.
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