More than language is needed to represent and combine different core knowledge components

TY - JOUR

T1 - More than language is needed to represent and combine different core knowledge components

AU - Krøjgaard, Peter

AU - Sonne, Trine

AU - Kingo, Osman Skjold

PY - 2024/6/27

Y1 - 2024/6/27

N2 - We question Spelke's key claim that the medium, in which contents from different core knowledge systems can be represented and combined, is language-based. Recalling an episodic memory, playing chess, and conducting mental rotation are tasks where core knowledge information is represented and combined. Although these tasks can be described by means of language, these tasks are not inherently language-based. Hence, language may be an important subset of an abstraction medium - not the medium as such.

AB - We question Spelke's key claim that the medium, in which contents from different core knowledge systems can be represented and combined, is language-based. Recalling an episodic memory, playing chess, and conducting mental rotation are tasks where core knowledge information is represented and combined. Although these tasks can be described by means of language, these tasks are not inherently language-based. Hence, language may be an important subset of an abstraction medium - not the medium as such.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85197195296&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X23003242

DO - 10.1017/S0140525X23003242

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 38934429

SN - 0140-525X

VL - 47

SP - e135

JO - Behavioral and Brain Sciences

JF - Behavioral and Brain Sciences

IS - e135

ER -