ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024
Early-emerging combinatorial thought: Human infants flexibly combine kind and quantity concepts.
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Combinatorial thought, or the ability to combine a finite set of concepts into a myriad of complex ideas and knowledge structures, is the key to the productivity of the human mind and underlies communication, science, technology, and art. Despite the importance of combinatorial thought for human cognition and culture, its developmental origins remain unknown. To address this, we tested whether 12-mo-old infants (
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