Citation

Author Website

http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/Labs/CNL/Pages/staff/moranbar.aspx

http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/Labs/CNL/Pages/staff/AvishaiHenik.aspx

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Colin A. Chapman and Michael A. Huffman, Why do we want to think humans are different?

Abstract

Chapman & Huffman review and evaluate various aspects of the notion of human superiority. In this commentary we focus on intelligence and suggest a biologically based view of intelligence applicable to humans and non-human species alike. “Mental manipulation” (e.g., mental transformations, rotations, perspective-taking), an extension of object manipulation, provides a continuous, biologically based concept for studying intelligent behavior in humans and other species and challenges the notion of human superiority.

Author Biography

Moran Bar-Hen-Schweiger investigates mental manipulation in intelligence assessment. She is also interested in studying the implications of mental manipulations in the field of neuropsychology. Website

Avishai Henik, Distinguished Professor of cognitive neuropsychology at the Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, is author of over 250 publications in the general area of cognitive neuroscience: attention, cognitive control, numerical cognition, and synesthesia. Website

DOI

10.51291/2377-7478.1409