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If “tracking” is category-specific a “common structure” may be redundant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

Pascal Boyer
Pascal Boyer
Affiliation:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 69363 Lyon, France pboyer@mrash.fr
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Abstract

Identifying objects as members of ontological domains activates category-specific processes. There is evidence that these processes include particular ways of “tracking” substances and could do all the “tracking” necessary for concept acquisition. There may be no functional need or evolutionary scenario for a general tracking capacity of the kind described by Millikan.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , February 1998 , pp. 67 - 68
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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