The Language of Thought as a working hypothesis for developmental cognitive science

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A science of prelinguistic infant cognition must take seriously the Language of Thought (LoT) Hypothesis. I show how the LoT framework enables us to identify the representational and computational capacities of infant minds and the developmental factors that act on these capacities, and explain how Quilty-Dunn, Porot, & Mandelbaum’s take on LoT has important upshots for developmental theory-building.

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