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Shaping the physical world to our ends: The left PF technical-cognition area

2024-01-05

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Our propensity to materiality, which consists in using, making, creating, and passing on technologies, has enabled us to shape the physical world according to our ends. To explain this proclivity, scientists have calibrated their lens to either low-level skills such as motor cognition or high-level skills such as language or social cognition. Yet, little has been said about the intermediate-level cognitive process...

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Literature Corpus work: 2b11308f-f1c0-5c27-9bdf-8561b8c7c26f
DOI: 10.1101/2024.01.02.573935

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