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What is internalised? Dialogic cognitive representations and the mediated mind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2005

Charles Fernyhough*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Durham, Science Laboratories, DurhamDH1 3LE, United Kingdomwww.dur.ac.uk/c.p.fernyhough

Abstract

Two aspects of Tomasello et al.'s account would benefit from further elaboration: (1) the construction of dialogic cognitive representations through social interaction, and (2) the cognitive consequences of operating with such representations. Vygotskian ideas on internalisation and verbal mediation may help us better to understand how dialogic cognitive representations can transform human cognition.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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