web01.fireside.fm Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:05:04 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The It's Innate! Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Lot” https://itsinnate.fireside.fm/tags/lot Sat, 29 Apr 2023 09:00:00 -0400 Two opinionated developmental cognitive scientists wax theoretical about how infants and children acquire knowledge! en-us episodic A podcast by two developmental cognitive scientists Deon Benton & Jenny Wang Two opinionated developmental cognitive scientists wax theoretical about how infants and children acquire knowledge! no Deon Benton & Jenny Wang theitsinnatepodcast@gmail.com Episode 17: Is It Language of Thoughts (LoTs) All the Way Down? (with Melissa Kibbe) https://itsinnate.fireside.fm/17 ed2305cd-052f-43a7-9d8c-5a6bd5f12043 Sat, 29 Apr 2023 09:00:00 -0400 Deon Benton & Jenny Wang full Deon Benton & Jenny Wang 1:45:16 no 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 (https://psyarxiv.com/c8fp3) 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 (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/abs/best-game-in-town-the-reemergence-of-the-language-of-thought-hypothesis-across-the-cognitive-sciences/76F46784C6C07FF52FF45B934D6D3542) Special Guest: Melissa Kibbe. LoT, representation, infants 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

Special Guest: Melissa Kibbe.

]]> 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

Special Guest: Melissa Kibbe.

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