Two different perspectives have informed efforts to explain the link between the brain and
behaviour. One approach seeks to identify neural circuit elements that carry out specific …

As literate adults, we appreciate numerical values as abstract entities that can be
represented by a numeral, a word, a number of lines on a scorecard, or a sequence of …

The past decade of progress in neurobiology has uncovered important organizational
principles for network preconfiguration and neuronal selection that suggest a generative …

The human language faculty has been claimed to be grounded in the ability to process
hierarchically structured sequences. This human ability goes beyond the capacity to process …

0559.001 What is the relationship between language and cognition? Do people who speak
different languages think differently? Is a certain level of cognitive development required for …

A wide variety of organisms employ specialized mechanisms to cope with the demands of
their environment. We suggest that the same is true for humans when acquiring artificial …

Whether cognitive representations are better conceived as language-based, symbolic
representations or perceptually related, analog representations is a subject of debate. If …

The capacity to generate a limitless range of meaningful expressions from a finite set of
elements differentiates human language from other animal communication systems. Rule …

We argue that one important aspect of the “cognitive neuroscience revolution” identified by
Boone and Piccinini (Synthese 193 (5): 1509–1534. doi: 10.1007/s11229-015-0783-4 …

Influential theories have claimed that the ability for recursion forms the computational core of
human language faculty distinguishing our communication system from that of other animals …