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Sep 6, 2023

Toddlers Use Logic Before Language

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Summary: Toddlers as young as 19 months old exhibit natural logical thinking, independent of language knowledge. This ability, manifesting as exclusion by elimination, allows toddlers to make conclusions about unknown realities by discounting known impossibilities.

Through analyzing gaze movement patterns in tests, they discerned this innate reasoning process. The study further found no significant differences between bilingual and monolingual toddlers, suggesting that this logic doesn’t hinge on linguistic experience.

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