Comments on Neil Mercer paper. Some consequences of the social brain ideas: studies on individual student to those on classroom as a group

Introduction Neil Mercer focuses his paper on the relationship between individual and collective thinking processes. He starts from rather recent developments stating that the concept of the ‘social brain’ emphasizes that human intelligence is intrinsically social. Neil Mercer raises the important problem of “the functional connections between collective and individual thinking activities, and the role of language in those activities.” I...