During language processing, humans form complex embedded representations from
sequential inputs. Here, we ask whether a “geometrical language” with recursive embedding …

Research on humans from birth to maturity converges with research on diverse animals to
reveal foundational cognitive systems in human and animal minds. The present article …

In various cultures and at all spatial scales, humans produce a rich complexity of geometric
shapes such as lines, circles or spirals. Here, we propose that humans possess a language …

We review growing evidence that the reorientation system—shared by both humans and
nonhuman species—privileges geometric representations of space and exhibits many of the …

The cognitive foundations of geometry have puzzled academics for a long time, and even
today are mostly unknown to many scholars, including mathematical cognition researchers …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses how one can determine the content of a mental
representation as it is found in the mind of an infant, an animal, or a member of a culturally …

Natural language is often seen as the single factor that explains the cognitive singularity of
the human species. Instead, we propose that humans possess multiple internal languages …

Memory for spatial sequences does not depend solely on the number of locations to be
stored, but also on the presence of spatial regularities. Here, we show that the human brain …

Understanding and producing embedded sequences in language, music, or mathematics, is
a central characteristic of our species. These domains are hypothesized to involve a human …

A wealth of studies show that human adults map ordered information onto a directional
spatial continuum. We asked whether mapping ordinal information into a directional space …