Incomplete language-of-thought in infancy.

Behav Brain Sci

CNRS UMR5229 - Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, Bron,

Published: September 2023

The view that infants possess a full-fledged propositional language-of-thought (LoT) is appealing, providing a unifying account for infants' precocious reasoning skills in many domains. However, careful appraisal of empirical evidence suggests that there is still no convincing evidence that infants possess discrete representations of abstract relations, suggesting that infants' LoT remains incomplete. Parallel arguments hold for perception.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23001826DOI Listing

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