How we know a dog is a dog . . .

An interesting article from the September 23, 2009 edition of Psychology and Sociology, titled How we know a dog is a dog: Concept acquisition in the human brain. Although in different language, it supports the comment in my post, The Brain is an Engineering System. The primary point is that routine reading is likely to build up a child's capacity to comprehend and anticipate situations by laying down patterns of reality gleaned from books.