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. 2020 Jun 19:43:e125.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X19003182.

Language as a mental travel guide

Charles P Davis  1   2 , Gerry T M Altmann  1   2 , Eiling Yee  1   2
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Language as a mental travel guide

Charles P Davis et al. Behav Brain Sci. .

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    Davis CP, Altmann GTM, Yee E. Davis CP, et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2020 Jul 14;43:e154. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X2000031X. Behav Brain Sci. 2020. PMID: 32662764 No abstract available.

Abstract

Gilead et al.'s approach to human cognition places abstraction and prediction at the heart of "mental travel" under a "representational diversity" perspective that embraces foundational concepts in cognitive science. But, it gives insufficient credit to the possibility that the process of abstraction produces a gradient, and underestimates the importance of a highly influential domain in predictive cognition: language, and related, the emergence of experientially based structure through time.

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