Published: 2015-12-23

The Importance of Mental Images in the Thinking of Animals. Is Language a Necessary Condition of Thinking?

Honorata Korpikiewicz Logo ORCID

Abstract

In the article it is argued that the conviction that verbally expressed language (as commonly employed by humans) is necessary for thinking is not justified. Animals have been found to employ various communication systems (languages) and, though these are different from human language, they testify to consciousness and thought. Recent research among autistic people has indicated that they frequently think in images rather than words, and it is suggested that this was the original feature of human thinking and may also be the basis of animal thinking.

Citation rules

Korpikiewicz, H. (2015). The Importance of Mental Images in the Thinking of Animals. Is Language a Necessary Condition of Thinking?. Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies, (1), 109–132. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/ZOOPHILOLOGICA/article/view/4809

Zoophilologica – T.1 (2015) – Zwierzęce/Animalis

No. 1 (2015)
Published: 2016-08-14


ISSN: 2719-2687
eISSN: 2451-3849
Ikona DOI 10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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