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A language of thought for the mental representation of geometric shapes

2021-12-23

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<p>In various cultures and at all spatial scales, humans produce a rich complexity of geometric shapes such as lines, circles or spirals. Here, we formalize and test the hypothesis that all humans possess a compositional language of thought that can produce line drawings as recursive combinations of a minimal set of geometric primitives. We present a programming language, similar to Logo, that combines discrete nu...

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Literature Corpus work: b616d875-ee37-5a60-8e48-50a44c1f910b
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/28mg4

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