# Sentence Thinker **Entity class:** Cognitive-style concept **Domain:** Cognitive science / Language **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition A sentence thinker habitually experiences a substantial portion of conscious thought in words, phrases, or internally articulated sentences. ## Mechanism and significance The concept helps distinguish language-mediated cognition from visual, spatial, affective, motor, or otherwise nonverbal modes without ranking one style as more intelligent. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Neural Decoding and Cognitive Systems|Neural Decoding and Cognitive Systems]] - **Primary fields:** [[Neural Decoding]] · [[Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[High-Temporal-Resolution Neural Data]] · [[Internal Monologue]] · [[Nonverbal Thinker]] · [[Emoji as Emotional Symbol]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.