Quotidian cognition and the human-nonhuman "divide": Just more or less of a good thing?

Drew Rendall, John R. Vokey, Hugh Notman

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Abstract

We make three points: (1) Overlooked studies of nonhuman communication originally inspired, but no longer support, the blinkered view of mental continuity that Penn et al. critique. (2) Communicative discontinuities between animals and humans might be rooted in social-cognitive discontinuities, reflecting a common lacuna in Penn et al.'s relational reinterpretation mechanism. (3) However, relational reinterpretation need not be a qualitatively new representational process.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)144-145
Number of pages2
JournalBehavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume31
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr. 2008

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