ERC Starting Grant · 2023
The ontogenesis of abstract thought – higher-order representations in the maturing brain
Thinking about the world–what is and what might be–is fundamental to human life. The foundation for this world-understanding is laid in the preschool years of childhood. Around the age of 4, children begin to reason not only about the real world but also about what is possible or what people believe about the world. The acquisition of these abstract representations of the world is reflected in a major developmental breakthrough across domains of human cognition. The mechanisms that drive this breakthrough, however, are unknown. REPRESENT aims to clarify the cognitive and neural foundation of how we, in early childhood, come to represent the world in abstract terms. Based on novel findings,…
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