Behavioral and Brain Sciences



Short Communication

The spatial reorientation data do not support the thesis that language is the medium of cross-modular thought


Richard Samuels a1
a1 Philosophy Department, King’ College, Strand, London, UK richard.samuels@kcl.ac.uk http://

Abstract

A central claim of the target article is that language is the medium of domain-general, cross-modular thought; and according to Carruthers, the main, direct evidence for this thesis comes from a series of fascinating studies on spatial reorientation. I argue that the these studies, in fact, provide us with no reason whatsoever to accept this cognitive conception of language.