The neural basis of thought symbols identified for the first time

If you ask a child to draw an animal that doesn’t exist, they’ll often cobble together components from real ones—say, the body of a seal with an elephant’s trunk, four octopus arms, and one lizard eye.

This imaginative ability is theorized to stem from our larger capacity to learn symbolic units—an arm or a leg in the aforementioned example, or perhaps a word—and then envision how those symbols could be reused in a new context. Neuroscientists call this facility for recombining familiar elements into fresh ideas compositional generalization, and it is hypothesized to be key to problem solving, making sense of new situations, and creative thinking.

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fair stepwise progress

SCIENCE said:

fair stepwise progress

We wait for finer resolution.

Tau.Neutrino said:

If you ask a child to draw an animal that doesn’t exist, they’ll often cobble together components from real ones—say, the body of a seal with an elephant’s trunk, four octopus arms, and one lizard eye.

I guess it depends on the child. In my experience kids will just draw a dragon or unicorn even when explicitly told to draw animals using different animal parts.

But I digress, go on…

Divine Angel said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

If you ask a child to draw an animal that doesn’t exist, they’ll often cobble together components from real ones—say, the body of a seal with an elephant’s trunk, four octopus arms, and one lizard eye.

I guess it depends on the child. In my experience kids will just draw a dragon or unicorn even when explicitly told to draw animals using different animal parts.

But I digress, go on…

What about the kids like me, who could never acceptably draw anything.

Michael V said:

Divine Angel said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

If you ask a child to draw an animal that doesn’t exist, they’ll often cobble together components from real ones—say, the body of a seal with an elephant’s trunk, four octopus arms, and one lizard eye.

I guess it depends on the child. In my experience kids will just draw a dragon or unicorn even when explicitly told to draw animals using different animal parts.

But I digress, go on…

What about the kids like me, who could never acceptably draw anything.

https://www.boredpanda.com/drawings-real-life-things-i-have-drawn/
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Divine Angel said:

Michael V said:

Divine Angel said:

I guess it depends on the child. In my experience kids will just draw a dragon or unicorn even when explicitly told to draw animals using different animal parts.

But I digress, go on…

What about the kids like me, who could never acceptably draw anything.

https://www.boredpanda.com/drawings-real-life-things-i-have-drawn/
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Most of mine were worse than those kids deawings.

Michael V said:

Divine Angel said:

Michael V said:

What about the kids like me, who could never acceptably draw anything.

https://www.boredpanda.com/drawings-real-life-things-i-have-drawn/
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Most of mine were worse than those kids deawings.

:)

Michael V said:

Divine Angel said:

Michael V said:

What about the kids like me, who could never acceptably draw anything.

https://www.boredpanda.com/drawings-real-life-things-i-have-drawn/
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Most of mine were worse than those kids deawings.

I could explain this, I mean I spent years studying children’s drawing processes, but I’m tired. It was one area of early childhood development that fascinated me.