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Interactional Expertise as Primer of Abstract Thought

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This chapter discusses how both the biological and interactional expertise conception make cognitive sense. It argues that the concept of interactional expertise is particularly interesting with respect to meta-cognitive abilities and so-called executive functions, and that the employment of interactional expertise abilities may be an essential primer of abstract thought both at the ontogenetic and phylogenetic levels.

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    Theresa Schilhab

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Schilhab, T. (2019). Interactional Expertise as Primer of Abstract Thought. In: Caudill, D.S., Conley, S.N., Gorman, M.E., Weinel, M. (eds) The Third Wave in Science and Technology Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14335-0_16

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