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SUBMITTER: Wang JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8412204 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Jinjing Jenny JJ Feigenson Lisa L
Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science 20190901
The origins of human knowledge are an enduring puzzle: what parts of what we know require learning, and what depends on intrinsic structure? Although the nature-nurture debate has been a central question for millennia and has inspired much contemporary research in psychology and neuroscience, it remains unknown whether people share intuitive, prescientific theories about the answer. Here we report that people (<i>N</i> = 1,188) explain fundamental perceptual and cognitive abilities by appeal to ...[more]