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- Title
Not by thoughts alone: How language supersizes the cognitive toolkit.
- Authors
IJzerman, Hans; Foroni, Francesco
- Abstract
We propose that Vaesen's target article (a) underestimates the role of language in humans' cognitive toolkit and thereby (b) overestimates the proposed cognitive discontinuity between chimps and humans. We provide examples of labeling, numerical computation, executive control, and the relation between language and body, concluding that language plays a crucial role in “supersizing humans' cognitive toolkit.”
- Subjects
COGNITIVE psychology; LANGUAGE &; languages; HUMAN behavior; THOUGHT &; thinking; CHIMPANZEES; ESTIMATES
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 4, p226
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X11002020