Cognitive Circus

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In our merry band of brain-benders' play,
Ideas juggle in a cognitive display,
Sperber swings on the cultural trapeze,
Turning memes into academic expertise.

Spelke, the infant whisperer so keen,
Decodes babbles with a scientific sheen,
Deloache, the toddler tamer supreme,
Makes symbols dance in a scholarly dream.

Gopnik tends her garden of budding thought,
Watching kids think, a joy more than sought,
Lakoff, the metaphor-juggling clown,
Turns simple words upside down.

Eco, the semiotic ringmaster supreme,
Masters making simple things seem deep,
Fodor, the modular mind-reading mystic,
Unveils cognition's complexity, though it seems simplistic.

Carey charts growth spurts in kids' minds,
Mapping how knowledge in youth unwinds,
Premack, the primate acrobat in swing,
Reveals how humans and apes share many things.

Ramachandran, the neural cartographer bold,
Maps the brain's mysteries, stories untold,
Tomasello, the developmental lion tamer,
Shows chimps and tots as equally tamer.

Moll traces gazes through the air,
Joint attention in ways beyond compare,
Carpenter, the mimicry maestro grand,
Conducts imitation's scholarly band.

Liszkowski decodes babbling's hidden art,
Finding depth in infants' every part,
Rakoczy, the norm-juggling jester bright,
Dances with morals in academic light.

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