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 …

The question of what computational capacities, if any, differ between humans and
nonhuman animals has been at the core of foundational debates in cognitive psychology …

Although a general sense of the magnitude, quantity, or numerosity of objects is common in
both untrained people and animals, the abilities to deal exactly with large quantities and to …

Progress in understanding cognition requires a quantitative, theoretical framework,
grounded in the other natural sciences and able to bridge between implementational …

Cognitive processes are often attributed to statistical or symbolic general-purpose
mechanisms. Here we show that some spontaneous generalizations are driven by …

From the late 1950s until 1975, cognition was understood mainly as disembodied symbol
manipulation in cognitive psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and the nascent field …

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 …

The utilization of symbols such as words and numbers as mental tools endows humans with
unrivalled cognitive flexibility. In the number domain, a fundamental first step for the …

Presents an embodied account of symbolic operations, proceeding from the neural
simulation of concrete concepts to how these relate to abstract concepts and symbols. This …