Is symmetry inference an essential component of language?

Autor: Chartier, Thomas F., Rey, Arnaud
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Zdroj: Learning & Behavior; Sep2020, Vol. 48 Issue 3, p279-280, 2p
Abstrakt: Summary: Symmetry inference—that is, spontaneously deriving the stimulus association B-A from A-B—was recently reported in preverbal infants (Kabdebon & Dehaene-Lambertz, 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116[12], 5805–5810) and regarded as a "building block for human cognition." Here, we argue that empirical evidence supporting this claim is insufficient, and that absence of symmetry inference in nonhuman animals should be reassessed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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