Two recent papers authored by Froese, Woodward and Ikegami present the neuropsychological model of Lewis-Williams and Dowson as if it had just been published. This paper corrects their distortions of the work of critics, including Helvenston and Bahn, addresses neuropsychological errors and discusses the complexities of psilocybin-containing mushrooms. It includes a discussion of the mushrooms...
The purpose of these comments is to correct some mischaracterizations of my work with Paul Bahn that Froese et al. make in their latest paper “Are altered states of consciousness detrimental, useful or helpful for the origins of symbolic cognition? A response to Hodgson and Lewis-Williams”. Additionally I discuss neuropsychological errors occurring in that paper.
Afrique & histoireSeptember 15, 2006Patricia A. Helvenston, Paul G. Bahn1 citation
Résumé Cet article oppose une série de contradictions au modèle neuropsychologique dit des Trois Stades de la Transe (TST) proposé par Lewis-Williams et Dowson, modèle dont la popularité excède de loin la solidité de ses fondations empiriques. Lewis-Williams et Dowson ont écrit comme si le modèle TST avait été vérifié en Afrique du Sud, mais ce n’est pas le cas, ainsi que nous le montrons par...