Elizabeth Spelke
Elizabeth Spelke
Elizabeth Shilin Spelkeis an American cognitive psychologist at the Department of Psychology of Harvard University and director of the Laboratory for Developmental Studies...
difficult geometry guess
I think it's really fascinating that geometry is so difficult. My guess is it's difficult because it focuses on proofs.
although apply central diverse dots horn numbers sensory seven
What's central about numbers for us as adults is that we can apply a number like 7 to a diverse number of things. We can say that there are seven dots but also that a horn honks seven times. Although these are different in their sensory qualities, the numbers are the same.
extremely likely
The experiments of the infants and the monkeys, I think, make it extremely likely that these abilities are inborn.