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| Author(s): |
Pinheiro, Sylvia
[1]
;
Mota, Natalia Bezerra
[1, 2]
;
Sigman, Mariano
[3, 4, 5]
;
Fernandez-Slezak, Diego
[6, 7]
;
Guerreiro, Antonio
[8]
;
Tofoli, Luis Fernando
[9]
;
Cecchi, Guillermo
[10]
;
Copelli, Mauro
[1, 10]
;
Ribeiro, Sidarta
Total Authors: 9
|
| Affiliation: | [1] Univ Fed Rio Grande do Norte, Inst Cerebro, Natal, RN - Brazil
[2] Univ Fed Pernambuco, Dept Fis, Ave Prof Moraes Rego 1235, BR-50670901 Recife, PE - Brazil
[3] Univ Torcuato Di Tella, Lab Neurociencia, Buenos Aires, DF - Argentina
[4] Univ Nebrija, Fac Lenguas & Educ, Madrid - Spain
[5] Consejo Nacl Invest Cient & Tecn, Consejo Nacl Invest Cient & Tecn, Buenos Aires, DF - Argentina
[6] Univ Buenos Aires, Dept Comp, Fac Ciencias Exactas & Nat, Buenos Aires, DF - Argentina
[7] Univ Buenos Aires, CONICET, Inst Invest Ciencias Comp, Buenos Aires, DF - Argentina
[8] Univ Estadual Campinas, Dept Antropol, Campinas - Brazil
[9] Univ Estadual Campinas, Dept Psicol Med & Psiquiatria, Campinas - Brazil
[10] IBM TJ Watson Res Ctr, Computat Biol Ctr Neurosci, Yorktown Hts, NY - USA
Total Affiliations: 10
|
| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCE AND EDUCATION; v. 21, DEC 2020. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 0 |
| Abstract | |
Background: Graph analysis detects psychosis and literacy acquisition. Bronze Age literature has been proposed to contain childish or psychotic features, which would only have matured during the Axial Age (similar to 800-200 BC), a putative boundary for contemporary mentality. Method: Graph analysis of literary texts spanning similar to 4,500 years shows remarkable asymptotic changes over time. Results: While lexical diversity, long-range recurrence and graph length increase away from randomness, short-range recurrence declines towards random levels. Bronze Age texts are structurally similar to oral reports from literate typical children and literate psychotic adults, but distinct from poetry, and from narratives by preliterate preschoolers or Amerindians. Text structure reconstitutes the ``arrow-of-time{''}, converging to educated adult levels at the Axial Age onset. Conclusion: The educational pathways of oral and literate traditions are structurally divergent, with a decreasing range of recurrence in the former, and an increasing range of recurrence in the latter. Education is seemingly the driving force underlying discourse maturation. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/07699-0 - Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics - NeuroMat |
| Grantee: | Oswaldo Baffa Filho |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Grants - Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers - RIDC |