Ape metaphysics: Object individuation without language
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Ape metaphysics: object individuation without language.
Developmental research suggests that whereas very young infants individuate objects purely on spatiotemporal grounds, from (at latest) around 1 year of age children are capable of individuating objects according to the kind they belong to and the properties they instantiate. As the latter ability has been found to correlate with language, some have speculated whether it might be essentially lan...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cognition
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.04.007