Cognitive Gadgets in Human Cultural Learning:A Dual System of Social Brain Perspective
Cultural evolutionary psychology emphasizes that culture is the third source besides na-ture and nurture,which distinguishes the human mind from other animals.Cognitive gadgets are human-specific,domain-specific cognitive processes(or integrated collections of cognitive processes).At the individual level,cognitive gadgets are assembled through childhood social interactions rather than"in-nate modules"or"cognitive instincts";at the group level,they are through cultural learning to fulfil their functions.Mind-reading and simulation are the two core cognitive gadgets whose functions are sup-ported by social brain dual-systems theory and experimental evidence,with the mentalizing system re-sponsible for mind-reading and the mirror neuron system responsible for simulation.Ultimately,cogni-tive gadgets established itself on the basis of a Darwinian new path of cultural evolution rather than ge-netic evolution.
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