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Direct linkUpala, M. Afzal; Gonce, Lauren O.; Tweney, Ryan D.; Slone, D. Jason – Cognitive Science, 2007
A number of anthropologists have argued that religious concepts are minimally counterintuitive and that this gives them mnemic advantages. This paper addresses the question of why people have the memory architecture that results in such concepts being more memorable than other types of concepts by pointing out the benefits of a memory structure…
Descriptors: Memory, Context Effect, Comprehension, Cognitive Structures
