Cognitive Neuroscience

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2 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Cognitive Neuroscience.

• Bi-directional hypothesis of language and action — The embodied-cognition hypothesis that language comprehension and sensorimotor activity influence one another reciprocally.
• Neuronal recycling hypothesis — Explain culturally recent capacities as constrained reuses of older cortical circuits whose inherited organization supplies a compatible neuronal niche and is partially reshaped through learning.