Elizabeth Spelke Question #2

Elizabeth Spelke supports her claim that the brain starts as a "series of islands", which eventually develop bridges to one another therefore creating language and enabling the ability to link ideas and certain references to produce a complete thought. I believe her assesment of the brain is true, because in her research it is primarily focused on infants. Mainly due to their brains early development, which allows her team to assess and evaluate the infants brain function and how their intellectual capacity keeps proliferating. When she speaks of the child being able to identify spatial concepts such as "looking left of the blue wall" it is because of the childs natural geometric system of being able to distinguish left from right. The child learns left and right by relating those expressions to purely geometric representations. This therefore concludes that a child can link certain expressions to representations, like building a bridge from idea to idea, which then creates links in forming language. She also makes a reference to the rat sticking to the long hall on its left rather than its right, the rat is simply making small connections in its brain to develop more effiecent function. Unlike rats, humans are much more complex, and making these links to different ideas in our brains can be faster and much more advanced; Yet nature still supports  the idea of our brain connecting ideas link by link in order to grow and develop.