This is a theory which has been debated and I don't think made it to the mainstream status.
The book from which I took it is a mainstream introduction to cognitive science written by a professor of cognitive psychology that published papers. I read it because someone at in my bioinformatics university course recommended it to me as an introduction. What do you mean with "mainstream status" is that doesn't count as mainstream?
Yes, and that professor is a professor of cognitive psychology, not history.
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