Original intelligence : unlocking the mystery of who we are
Original intelligence : unlocking the mystery of who we are
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原始情报：解开我们是谁的谜团
DOI：
10.1098/rstb.2012.0111
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发表时间：
2003
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通讯作者：
A. Premack
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作者：
D. Premack;A. Premack
这本书揭示了人类智力的本质特征。人类是几千年来动物进化的继承者--事实上，仅仅1.6%的基因差异就将我们与我们的近亲黑猩猩区分开来--但显然人类的智力是两码事。领先的实验心理学家大卫·普雷马克和他的长期合作伙伴安·普雷马克做出了非凡的合作事业，梳理出人类思维的深层特征是什么将我们与最亲密的动物亲戚区分开来。在《原始智慧》中，Premack夫妇借鉴了他们自己和其他人多年来对动物和儿童以及年仅四个月大的人类婴儿所做的出色的实验工作。仔细比较了动物和人类的能力，他们提供了令人信服的证据，证明了“模块”的存在，即天生的直觉，使非常年轻的人类能够认识基本的物理定律，如重力、算术、类比、理解音乐，当然还有使用语言。最后，他们探讨了这些发现的心理、社会和伦理影响，并根据对大脑如何工作的新理解，为如何改革教育方法提供了处方。
This book reveals the innate characteristics of human intelligence. Humans are the inheritors of millenia of animal evolution - indeed, a mere 1.6 per cent genetic difference separates us from our closest relative, the chimp - and yet clearly human intelligence is a thing apart. Leading experimental psychologist David Premack and his long-time collaborator, Ann Premack, have made an extraordinary joint career of teasing out exactly what are the deep characteristics of the human mind that separates us from our closest animal relatives. In "Original Intelligence", the Premacks draw upon years of brilliant experimental work of their own and others with animals and children, and human babies as young as four months. Carefully comparing and contrasting the abilities of animals and humans, they present compelling evidence for the existence of "modules," or inborn intuitions that enable even extremely young humans to recognize basic physical laws, such as gravity, do arithmetic, draw analogies, understand music, and, of course use language. Finally, they explore the psychological, social, and ethical implications of these findings, and offer prescriptions for how educational methods should be reformed in light of this new understanding of how the mind works.