The authors present an ambitious attempt to outline the gradual evolution of the cognitive foundations of ostensive communication. We focus on three problematic aspects of the distinction between and : ambiguity in the distinction's central principle of "complementary mechanisms," inconsistencies in the application of the distinction across taxa, and the dismissal of mentalizing in nonhuman primates.
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February 2023
Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, 1100 Vienna, https://people.ceu.edu/gyorgy_gergely.
The authors present an ambitious attempt to outline the gradual evolution of the cognitive foundations of ostensive communication. We focus on three problematic aspects of the distinction between and : ambiguity in the distinction's central principle of "complementary mechanisms," inconsistencies in the application of the distinction across taxa, and the dismissal of mentalizing in nonhuman primates.
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