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- Title
Language and tool making are similar cognitive processes.
- Authors
Holloway, Ralph L.
- Abstract
Design features for language and stone toolmaking (not tool use) involve similar if not homologous cognitive processes. Both are arbitrary transformations of internal “intrinsic” symbolization, whereas non-human tool using is mostly an iconic transformation. The major discontinuity between humans and non-humans (chimpanzees) is language. The presence of stone tools made to standardized patterns suggests communicative and social control skills that involved language.
- Subjects
COGNITIVE psychology; TOOLS; SOCIAL control; SOCIAL skills; LANGUAGE &; languages; CHIMPANZEES
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 4, p226
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X11002019