Der enge Zusammenhang von sprachlichen Kompetenzen und fachlichem Lernen ist
empirisch gut belegt. Ebenfalls umfassend untersucht und beschrieben sind die vielfältigen …

A hallmark of human cognition is the capacity to think about observable experience in ways
that are nonobvious—from scientific concepts (genes, molecules) to everyday …

It is widely recognized that language plays a key role in the transmission of human culture,
but relatively little is known about the mechanisms by which language simultaneously …

American political parties continue to grow more polarized, but the extent of ideological
polarization among the public is much less than the extent of perceived polarization (what …

Generics are statements such as “tigers are striped”,“a duck lays eggs”,“the dodo is extinct”,
and “ticks carry Lyme disease”. Generics express generalizations, but unlike quantified …

Kind representations draw an important distinction between properties that are understood
as existing in instances of a kind by virtue of their being the kind of thing they are and …

Large language models (LLMs) have garnered a great deal of attention for their exceptional
generative performance on commonsense and reasoning tasks. In this work, we investigate …

Social essentialism consists of the commonly held belief that certain ways of categorizing
people (eg, gender and race) reflect meaningful, fundamental distinctions found in nature …

Generic language, that is, language that refers to a category as an abstract whole (eg,'Girls
like pink') rather than specific individuals (eg,'This girl likes pink'), is a common means by …

The ability to carve the world into broad categories (eg, DOG) made up of distinct individuals
(eg, Lassie and Toto) is essential for adaptive behavior and has been the focus of extensive …