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Article Dans Une Revue Learning and Behavior Année : 2020

Is symmetry inference an essential component of language?

Arnaud R Rey

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Symmetry inference—that is, spontaneously deriving the stimulus association B-A from A-B—was recently reported in preverbal infants (Kabdebon & Dehaene-Lambertz, 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116[12], 5805–5810) and regarded as a “building block for human cognition.” Here, we argue that empirical evidence supporting this claim is insufficient, and that absence of symmetry inference in nonhuman animals should be reassessed.

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Psychologie
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hal-02943216 , version 1 (12-11-2020)

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Thomas Chartier, Arnaud R Rey. Is symmetry inference an essential component of language?. Learning and Behavior, 2020, 48 (3), pp.279-280. ⟨10.3758/s13420-019-00405-5⟩. ⟨hal-02943216⟩
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