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A neurocognitive mechanism for folk biology?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

Remo Job  and
Luca Surian
Remo Job
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione, Università di Padova, I-35131 Padua, Italyremojob@psico.unipd.itsurian@psico.unipd.it
Luca Surian
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione, Università di Padova, I-35131 Padua, Italyremojob@psico.unipd.itsurian@psico.unipd.it
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Abstract

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Atran's putative module for folk biology is evaluated with respect to evidence from patients showing category-specific impairments for living kinds. Existing neuropsychological evidence provides no support for the primacy of categorization at the generic species level. We outline reasons for this and emphasize that such claims should be tested using inductive reasoning tasks.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , August 1998 , pp. 577 - 578
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press