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Is the Language of Thought == Language? A Thread 🧵 New Preprint (link:
tinyurl.com/LangLOT
) with
@alexanderfung.bsky.social
, Paris Jaggers, Jason Chen, Josh Rule, Yael Benn,
@joshtenenbaum.bsky.social
, @spiantado.bsky.social, Rosemary Varley,
@evfedorenko.bsky.social
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Evidence from Formal Logical Reasoning Reveals that the Language of Thought is not Natural Language
Humans are endowed with a powerful capacity for both inductive and deductive logical thought: we easily form generalizations based on a few examples and draw conclusions from known premises. Humans al...
https://tinyurl.com/LangLOT
3 months ago
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New paper with
@alexanderfung.bsky.social
,
@rtpramod.bsky.social
, @jessica__chomik,
@nancykanwisher.bsky.social
,
@evfedorenko.bsky.social
on the representations that underlie our intuitive physical reasoning about the world. Thread 🧵about our new preprint 📄✨linked here:
tinyurl.com/intphyslang
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Intuitive physical reasoning is not mediated by linguistic nor exclusively domain-general abstract representations
The ability to reason about the physical world is a critical tool in the human cognitive toolbox, but the nature of the representations that mediate physical reasoning remains debated. Here, we use fM...
https://tinyurl.com/intphyslang
12 months ago
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