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Evolution's gift is the right account of the origin of recoding functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

Andrew Wells
Andrew Wells
Affiliation:
Department of Social Psychology, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London WC2A 2AE, England a.j.wells@lse.ac.uk
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Abstract

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Clark & Thornton argue that the recoding functions which are used to solve type-2 problems are, at least in part, the ontogenetic products of general-purpose mechanisms. This commentary disputes this and suggests that recoding functions are adaptive specializations.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , March 1997, pp. 83
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© 1997 Cambridge University Press