General Symbol Machines: The First Stage in the Evolution of Symbolic Communication
Humans uniquely form stimulus equivalence (SE) classes of abstract and unrelated stimuli, i.e. if taught to match A with B and B with C, they will spontaneously match B with A, and C with B, (the relation of symmetry), and A with C (transitivity). Other species do not do this. The SE ability is poss...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2003-01-01
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| Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/147470490300100116 |