The language-of-thought as a working hypothesis for developmental cognitive science

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 46:e280 (2023)
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A science of prelinguistic infant cognition must take seriously the language-of-thought (LoT) hypothesis. I show how the LoT framework enables us to identify the representational and computational capacities of infant minds and the developmental factors that act on these capacities, and explain how Quilty-Dunn et al.'s take on LoT has important upshots for developmental theory-building.

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