Lobo, Gregory (2025) 'The Neurology of Culture.' Journal of Cognition and Culture, 25 (1-2). pp. 64-75.
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Abstract
The lack of anatomical evolution contrasted with an evident behavioral change in humans during their natural history, from about 200,000 to 700,000 years ago, constitutes something of a puzzle. What explains the behavioral change, a change which is commonly understood as cultural? Against the surprisingly widespread but tautological response that the change was driven by culture – which amounts to the unsatisfying argument that culture drives culture, all the way down, or back – this paper presents a theory developed by Andrey Vyshedskiy, whose work on autism and language therapies has led him to an account of the neurobiological basis of voluntary imagination, which here I redescribe as an account of the evolution of the neurology of culture.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Keywords: | neurology – culture – prefrontal synthesis – imagination – prefrontal cortex – recursion – evolution |
| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > School of History, Religions & Philosophies |
| ISSN: | 15685373 |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340200 |
| SWORD Depositor: | JISC Publications Router |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Mar 2025 09:06 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/43473 |
| Funders: | Other |
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