Roepstorff Andreas
Department of Social Anthropology and Centre for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, University of Aarhus, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 Jun 12;363(1499):2049-54. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0015.
This paper integrates archaeology, anthropology and functional brain imaging in an examination of the cognition of words and objects. Based on a review of recent brain imaging experiments, it is argued that in cognition and action, material symbols may be the link between internal representations and objects and words in the world. This principle is applied to the sapient paradox, the slow development of material innovation at the advent of the anatomically modern human. This translates the paradox into a long-term build-up of extended and distributed cognition supported by development in the complexity of material symbols.
本文将考古学、人类学和功能性脑成像结合起来，以研究对单词和物体的认知。基于对近期脑成像实验的综述，本文认为，在认知和行动中，物质符号可能是内部表征与世界中的物体和单词之间的联系。这一原理被应用于智慧悖论，即在解剖学意义上的现代人出现时物质创新发展缓慢的问题。这将该悖论转化为由物质符号复杂性的发展所支持的长期扩展和分布式认知的积累。
