"Core perception" cannot ignore issues of conceptual content and functional role
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Bai et al. argue that core knowledge is perceptual because infants often appear to represent core entities like objects, numbers, and agents similarly to adults, and adults' performance on tasks probing these representations demonstrates signatures of perception. We suggest that this framing casts aside two interrelated issues central to understanding the nature of core knowledge: conceptual content and functional role.
Source: PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints)
Authors: Shari Liu, Lisa Feigenson, Sally Berson
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7140066564