BS 182 Iris Berent author of "The Blind Storyteller"
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
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The Blind Storyteller: Exploring Language and Human Nature
The chapter delves into the differences between human language and communication systems in other species, and the debate between a specialized language mechanism and overall intelligence. The author discusses their frustration with the resistance to the concept of innate ideas and shares experiments that reveal people's biases. They also explore the concepts of dualism and essentialism and discuss research on infants' thinking patterns about objects and people.
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