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Brain areas for reversible symbolic reference, a potential singularity of the human brain
2023-03-04
Abstract excerpt
The emergence of symbolic thinking has been proposed as a dominant cognitive criterion to distinguish humans from other primates during hominization. Although the proper definition of a symbol has been the subject of much debate, one of its simplest features is bidirectional attachment: the content is accessible from the symbol, and vice versa. Behavioural observations scattered over the past four decades suggest...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 74dfe61b-25fa-5e93-8478-2f1801d40ff9
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.03.04.531109