The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition

Michael Tomasello

  • Winner of the 2001 William James Book Award sponsored by Division 1, the Society for General Psychology of the American Psychological Association

1. A Puzzle and a Hypothesis

2. Biological and Cultural Inheritance

3. Joint Attention and Cultural Learning

4. Linguistic Communication and Symbolic Representation

5. Linguistic Constructions and Event Cognition

6. Discourse and Representational Redescription

7. Cultural Cognition

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  • Cover: The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition

Michael Tomasello is Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. He is the author of First Verbs and the coauthor of Primate Cognition.