The Cognitive Abilities of Toddlers: Logic Over Language

Toddlers as young as 19 months old exhibit natural logical thinking, independent of language knowledge, through a process called exclusion by elimination. This innate reasoning ability allows toddlers to make conclusions about unknown realities by ruling out known impossibilities. The study found no significant differences in logical abilities between bilingual and monolingual toddlers, suggesting that this cognitive skill is universal and not dependent on linguistic experience.