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BSP 94: Linguist Benjamin Bergen

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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The Human Adaptation for Language Is Like the Human Affection for Imagery

Evolution appears to be an inveterate tinkerer. We've got a good, solid mammalian system for perceiving that's taken hundreds of lions of years to evolve. If language works that same way, then it ought to rely on systems for perception and systems for action as well.

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