How is the mind structured? Does it come equipped with its own "language"? These are questions that humans have been pondering as early as history goes. Yet cognitive scientists today still have drastically different opinions about the answers to these questions. We chatted with Professor Melissa Kibbe from Boston University about her journey as a cognitive developmental scientist. We then focused on her recent article on what "Language of Thought" is and how we can find empirical evidence for its presence (or absence) in the infant mind.
Links
Kibbe, M.M. (in press). The Language of Thought as a working hypothesis for developmental cognitive science. Commentary on Quilty-Dunn, Porot, & Mandelbaum, in Behavior & Brain Sciences. Link
Quilty-Dunn, J., Porot, N., & Mandelbaum, E. (2022). The best game in town: The re-emergence of the language of thought hypothesis across the cognitive sciences. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1-55. Link