Mind Shift: How Culture Transformed the Human Brain

Mind Shift: How Culture Transformed the Human Brain
ISBN-10
0198801637
ISBN-13
9780198801634
Category
Psychology
Pages
544
Language
English
Published
2021-04-22
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
John Parrington

Description

What makes human consciousness unique? John Parrington draws on early Russian ideas and the latest neuroscience to argue that humans went through a 'mind shift' when we developed language, and words and the shared cultural world they enabled altered our brains, and have shaped them ever since.

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