Caroline M Kaicher, Julia J Conti, Abhishek M Dedhe, Lauren S Aulet, Jessica F Cantlon
{"title":"Is core knowledge a natural subdivision of infant cognition?","authors":"Caroline M Kaicher, Julia J Conti, Abhishek M Dedhe, Lauren S Aulet, Jessica F Cantlon","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X23003229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23003229","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We examine Spelke's core knowledge taxonomy and test its boundaries. We ask whether Spelke's core knowledge is a distinct <i>type</i> of cognition in the sense that the cognitive processes it includes and excludes are biologically and mechanically coherent.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141454966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The brain origins of early social cognition.","authors":"Tobias Grossmann","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X23003151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23003151","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This commentary challenges Spelke's view on the early development of social cognition from a neuroscience perspective by presenting an overlooked body of evidence from neuroimaging research on joint attention with human infants. Indeed, evidence demonstrating adult-like, neural sensitivity to joint attention in young infants, supports alternative theoretical views concerning the origins of uniquely human forms of social cognition.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141454975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perceptual (roots of) core knowledge.","authors":"Brian J Scholl","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X23003023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23003023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Some core knowledge may be rooted in - or even <i>identical to</i> - well-characterized mechanisms of mid-level visual perception and attention. In the decades since it was first proposed, this possibility has inspired (and has been supported by) several discoveries in both infant cognition and adult perception, but it also faces several challenges. To what degree does <i>What Babies Know</i> reflect how babies <i>see</i> and <i>attend</i>?</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141454971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The key to understanding core knowledge resides in the fetus.","authors":"Vincent M Reid","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X23003175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23003175","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>What Babies Know</i> outlines a compelling case for why infancy research is fundamental for conceptualizing what it is to be human. There is another period in human development that is relatively inaccessible, yet is more important. In order to truly understand the nature of core knowledge, perception, and cognition, we must start not with the infant, but with the fetus.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141454976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Questioning the nature and origins of the \"social agent\" concept.","authors":"Denis Tatone, Barbara Pomiechowska","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X23003011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23003011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Spelke posits that the concept of \"social agent,\" who performs object-directed actions to fulfill social goals, is the first noncore concept that infants acquire as they begin to learn their native language. We question this proposal on empirical grounds and theoretical grounds, and propose instead that the representation of object-mediated interactions may be supported by a dedicated prelinguistic mechanism.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141454972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More than language is needed to represent and combine different core knowledge components.","authors":"Peter Krøjgaard, Trine Sonne, Osman S Kingo","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X23003242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23003242","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We question Spelke's key claim that the medium, in which contents from different core knowledge systems can be represented and combined, is language-based. Recalling an episodic memory, playing chess, and conducting mental rotation are tasks where core knowledge information is represented and combined. Although these tasks can be <i>described</i> by means of language, these tasks are not inherently language-based. Hence, language may be an important <i>subset</i> of an abstraction medium - not the medium as such.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141454969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Divisive language.","authors":"Moira R Dillon","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X23003047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23003047","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>What language devises, it might divide. By exploring the relations among the core geometries of the physical world, the abstract geometry of Euclid, and language, I give new insight into both the persistence of core knowledge into adulthood and our access to it through language. My extension of Spelke's language argument has implications for pedagogy, philosophy, and artificial intelligence.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141454960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning in the social being system.","authors":"Zoe Jenkin, Lori Markson","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X23003138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23003138","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We argue that the core social being system is unlike other core systems in that it participates in frequent, widespread learning. As a result, the social being system is less constant throughout the lifespan and less informationally encapsulated than other core systems. This learning supports the development of the precursors of bias, but also provides avenues for preempting it.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141454968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of language in transcending core knowledge.","authors":"Susan Carey","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X23003060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23003060","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>What Babies Know</i> (<i>WBK</i>) argues that core knowledge has a unique place in cognitive architecture, between fully perceptual and fully conceptual systems of representation. Here I argue that <i>WBK</i>'s core knowledge is on the perception side of the perception/cognition divide. I discuss some implications of this conclusion for the roles language learning might play in transcending core knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141454977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breaking down (and moving beyond) novelty as a trigger of curiosity.","authors":"Emily G Liquin, Tania Lombrozo","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X23003333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23003333","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Novelty Seeking Model (NSM) places \"novelty\" at center stage in characterizing the mechanisms behind curiosity. We argue that the NSM's conception of novelty is too broad, obscuring distinct constructs. More critically, the NSM underemphasizes triggers of curiosity that better unify these constructs and that have received stronger empirical support: those that signal the potential for useful learning.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":29.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141069501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}