If the claim is substantiated that syntax for symbolic language is unique to Homo sapiens (Chomsky, Hauser & Fitch, 2002), and if the type of symbolic conceptual attention required in many conscious ...
This is Part 4 of a five-part series on cognition and consciousness. Part 1 explored what we mean by "cognition." In Parts 2 and 3, we examined neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux’s strict definition, which ...