August 11, 2019 ☼ linguistics

Recursive language, prefrontal synthesis (PFS) and active imagination

I just recently found out about Dr. Vyshedskiy and his fascinating journey into neurobiology of imagination and evolution of language. One week after I start looking into it, and completely out of the blue, I saw this excellent summary at https://tinyurl.com/y69qco57. What an amazing coincidence.

I heartily recommend, if you have 40’of your life, to read the FULL article here: https://riojournal.com/article/38546/
The unexplained development of the recursive elements within the language (spatial prepositions, nesting, verb tenses, etc.) let to a huge leap in acquiring prefrontal synthesis (PFS) - id est, active imagination.
Truly humans since 70.000 years ago.

If you have kids, this article is helping you out to understand the critical phase of age 2-to-5 in PFS development (spoiler: passive watching of TV/videos = bad; use of recursive language = good)

FULL ARTICLE: https://riojournal.com/article/38546/

SUMMARY: https://tinyurl.com/y69qco57 .