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cognitive gadgets: a standalone construct

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Evolutionary psychology

the proposal that distinctive human cognitive mechanisms such as imitation and mindreading are culturally inherited and learned rather than genetically specified modules.

In evolutionary psychology, cognitive gadgets refers to the proposal that distinctive human cognitive mechanisms such as imitation and mindreading are culturally inherited and learned rather than genetically specified modules. This meaning comes from Heyes (2018) in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.[1]

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  1. Heyes, C. (2018). Précis of Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x18002145

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