In this article, existing research investigating how school performance relates to cognitive,
self-awareness, language, and personality processes is reviewed. We outline the …

Noting that some theropod dinosaurs had large brains, large grasping hands, and likely
binocular vision, paleontologist Dale Russell suggested that a branch of these dinosaurs …

Reading a sentence entails integrating the meanings of individual words to infer more
complex, higher-order meaning. This highly rapid and complex human behavior is known to …

Recursion, the process of embedding structures within similar structures, is often considered
a foundation of symbolic competence and a uniquely human capability. To understand its …

In various cultures and at all spatial scales, humans produce a rich complexity of geometric
shapes such as lines, circles or spirals. Here, we propose that humans possess a language …

Hierarchical cognitive mechanisms underlie sophisticated behaviors, including language,
music, mathematics, tool‐use, and theory of mind. The origins of hierarchical logical …

Replay in the brain has been viewed as rehearsal or, more recently, as sampling from a
transition model. Here, we propose a new hypothesis: that replay is able to implement a form …

A comprehensive model of natural language processing in the brain must accommodate
four components: representations, operations, structures and encoding. It further requires a …

The capacity to generate recursive sequences is a marker of rich, algorithmic cognition, and
perhaps unique to humans. Yet, the precise processes driving recursive sequence …

Abstract “What is the structure of thought?” is as central a question as any in cognitive
science. A classic answer to this question has appealed to a Language of Thought (LoT) …