ScienceDaily -- Two vital parts of mentally organizing the world are classification, or the understanding that similar things belong in the same category; and induction, an educated guess about a thing's properties if it's in a certain category. There are reasons to believe that language greatly assists adults in both kinds of tasks. But how do young children use language to make sense of the things around them? It's a longstanding debate among psychologists.
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People Don't Just Think With Their Guts: Logic Plays a Role Too
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Before Sounding an Alarm, Chimps Consider Information Available to Their Audience
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