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    "pk": 26847,
    "title": "Explaining Enculturated Cognition",
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    "abstract": "Many of our cognitive capacities are shaped by enculturation.\nEnculturation is the temporally extended transformative\nacquisition of cognitive practices such as reading, writing, and\nmathematics. They are embodied and normatively constrained\nways to interact with epistemic resources (e.g., writing systems,\nnumber systems). Enculturation is associated with significant\nchanges of the organization and connectivity of the brain and of\nthe functional profiles of embodied actions and motor programs.\nFurthermore, it has a socio-culturally structured dimension,\nbecause it relies on cumulative cultural evolution and on the\nsocially distributed acquisition of cognitive norms governing the\nengagement with epistemic resources. This paper argues that we\nneed distinct, yet complementary levels of explanation and\ncorresponding temporal scales. This leads to explanatory\npluralism about enculturated cognition, which is the view that we\nneed multiple perspectives and explanatory strategies to account\nfor the complexity of enculturation.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "enculturation; neural plasticity; neural reuse;\nembodied cognition; cognitive niche construction; cumulative\ncultural evolution; cultural learning; reading acquisition;\nexplanatory pluralism"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Talks: Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0mh3p1fr",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Regina",
            "middle_name": "E.",
            "last_name": "Fabry",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Justus Liebig University,",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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