207 - A Slight Change of Plans - Maya Shankar
You Are Not So Smart
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The Language Instinct
i lost the ability to play violin right as i was heading to college. I discovered a book on how the mind processes language. And i marvelled at this, because i had always taken my ability to speak and comprehend language for granted m as i think many people who have language abilities do. Like i just became captivated, ah by, by the brain. Unfortunately for me, yale offered in a cognitive science inter disciplinary programm. At the time, it was one of the first schools. So you take classes in nero science, computer science, linguistic psychology, anthropology, biology, um. You try to ask that question using all these different tools. The room is packed
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