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Nature 442, 27-28 (6 July 2006) | doi:10.1038/442027a; Published online 5 July 2006
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Changing our minds
Paul Bloom1
Abstract
Our environment can affect the way our minds develop, but the relationship is complex.
BOOK REVIEWED-Brain and Culture: Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change
by Bruce E. Wexler
Bradford Books: 2006. 320 pp. $34, £21.95
Perhaps the mind begins as a blank slate and we start off, to use Rousseau's phrase, as "perfect idiots". At the other extreme, it could be like a Swiss-army knife, a collection of innately structured neural modules.
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