Language as a mental travel guide

Abstract

Gilead et al.'s approach to human cognition places abstraction and prediction at the heart of “mental travel” under a “representational diversity” perspective that embraces foundational concepts in cognitive science. But, it gives insufficient credit to the possibility that the process of abstraction produces a gradient, and underestimates the importance of a highly influential domain in predictive cognition: language, and related, the emergence of experientially based structure through time.

Language as a mental travel guide—ERRATUM

“…There was an editorial error in the original online version of the commentary by Davis et al (2020) on the target article by Gilead et al (2020). The following sentence, "Importantly, and unlike Gilead et al's framework, which have since been shown, in deep recurrent neural networks, are general principles of learning and development (Elman et al 1996)."…”